Principal Java Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

About The Role

We are recruiting Principal Java Developers to join our team. Principal Java Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

Our Principal Java Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a principal consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

Your role in nutshell:

• Act as a technical SME within the engineering community to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
• Lead on new business opportunities, writing technical bids and proposals
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
• Maintain client relationships and troubleshoot issues through collaboration
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
• Continuously reviews and prioritises the delivery teams workload and can anticipate the need for realignment with evolving operational prioritise and complex work-streams and assignments
• Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
• Lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
• Ensure our Engineering community contributes to our business at a strategic level
• Promote our Engineering team externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)

About the Candidate:

• Experience of operating as a technical leader on complex projects and able to manage stakeholder expectations and influencing decisions
• Coaching and guiding others on the best way to achieve an optimal solution
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
• The full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
• A full stack developer using core Java, CXF, Spring Boot, Jetty, Mustache, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular
• Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
• Expertise of Microservices design and architecture
• Restful API Services experience
• Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
• Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
• Infrastructure As Code – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
• Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian
• Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (company 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions
• tree planting