Technical Lead - Java

Recruiter:

EOH

Job Ref:

JHB004048/MM

Date posted:

Friday, March 18, 2022

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

Salary:

90000

JOB SUMMARY:
Overview
Leading the Development Process

Work with and direct the team’s software engineers in setting the standards for coding, testing and software quality
Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals for the delivery of working software
Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problems

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Supporting the Scrum Master

Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software
Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process
Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects

Providing Guidance and Mentoring

Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team

General Responsibilities

Analysis and Design
Technical design review and approval
BitBucket Admin
Confluence Updates
Review estimates and weighting
Code reviews and merges
SOW review
UAT Handover review
Support Handover review
Test cases review
Automation test review
Support Test Lead
Review deployment artefacts
Identify deployment team
Support production deployments
Keep master updated
Highlight risks / issues / dependencies
Team training / skilling-up sessions
Encourage DevOps culture, tools and processes
Monitor Emails / Slack / Telegram and respond timeously
Development (Java)

General Requirement:

Self-Starting Leader capable or working under pressure
Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development
Java Developer with +5 years experience with at least 2+ years Technical Leadership experience with the following skills:
- Atlassian Suite: Jira, Confluence.
- Microservices with Spring-boot / Java 8+.
- Spring cloud config.
- Unit tests with Spring-boot.
- Postman teams and Newman (Command line runner).
- Openshift / Kubernetes / Docker.
- Understanding of API gateways.
- OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.
- Understanding of networking concepts.
- Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP, REST, YAML etc).
- CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc).
- APIGEE API Gateway.
- Azure DevOps.

The following additional skills would be advantageous:
- Spring reactive
- Pivotal Kubernetes
- Linux
- Azure Pipelines
- Data Modelling

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