Java Software Engineer Team Lead

Join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead
You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
What you'll do
Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

Alongside the technical work, you will be line managing a team of skilled engineers, working in the feature team, catering for their growth and development and helping the leadership team in growing and developing the platform, team and individuals.

You’ll also be:

Realising exciting business functionality on a team-owned microservice platform hosted on AWS
Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong Java and Spring Boot experience in software design and implementation, including being able to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
Familiarity with messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
Previous experience in line management roles within technical teams
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