Senior Java Technical Lead - OpenShift Experience

Overview

We’re seeking a Senior Java Technical Lead to drive the development of transformative software solutions for government clients. With over 7 years of experience leading enterprise Java projects, you’ll bring a strategic mindset, strong technical acumen, and a passion for mentoring high-performing teams.

 

This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in collaborative environments and is committed to delivering innovative, secure, and scalable digital services that make a real difference.

Responsibilities

• Provide the development team with technical leadership and guidance on application design options
• Managing delivery as agreed and aligning team resources as required
• Manage project source code and documentation
• Responsibility for building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications
• Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing
• Expert in Java development, with experience using industry-standard frameworks, e.g. Quarkus/Spring Boot
• Microservice and API development (RESTful, experience of REST design and implementation)
• Understanding of API security protocols (OAuth 2.0/0penID Connect)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, API managers and WebLogic
• Experience with OpenShift Container platform, 3scale API and KeyCloak
• Testing frameworks and TDD (like Cucumber or Junit)
• Databases: Relational (Oracle)
• Coding in adherence to the standards of the application in question
• Maintaining, tuning and repairing applications to keep them performing according to technical and functional specifications; performing preventive maintenance activities; providing user support
• Integration of technical and application components to meet business requirements
• Completing assigned tasks related to phases of development lifecycle of enterprise applications within given scope and timeframe requirements
• Ensure that all deliverables are tested to meet the standards as defined prior to deployment to the Quality Assurance team
• Ensure production releases are compliant with release management standards
• Conducting Developer Code Reviews to ensure adherence to Java coding standards
• Provide continuity in all major application solution decisions
• Progress and manage technical change items/requests
• Advising developers on best practice and optimal approach in software development
• Organisation of skills/knowledge transfer and mentoring to team members
• Creation of unit and integration test plans
• Writing and execution of unit and integration test plans
• Incident resolution

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Essential skills

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated ability in Leading & coordinating a development teams to produce optimised code of new systems and/or the refactoring of older frameworks
• Demonstrated expertise as a subject matter expert, designing application interfaces and software services to maximise reuse based on the business processes and governance rules for sharing
• Demonstrated expertise leading teams in the development of new systems on Red Hat OpenShift
• Demonstrated expertise leading teams in the modernisation of existing applications onto the Red Hat OpenShift platform
• Demonstrated expertise of Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing
• Demonstrated use of Spring, JavaScript, Angular2+, Quarkus, HTML, XML, CSS or equivalent
• Developing webservice
• Demonstrated experience in administering a Jenkins instance in order to build windows executables

You will have enterprise project experience with most of these technologies:

• OpenShift and Docker containers
• Active MQ Messaging (Red Hat AMQ Broker/JMS)
• 3Scale
• KeyCloak
• Spring JDBC
• Maven
• Gitlab
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• ArtiFactory
• Jira
• Confluence
• Encryption
• Integration with external applications (3rd party software)
• XML and JSON
• OpenAPI
• Progressive Web Apps
• Service Workers
• OpenID connect and OAuth protocols
• Mobile-First Development
• Front-end CI pipelines
• Testing Tools - cucumber/Karama/Jasmine/Protractor
• EJB2/EJB3 - for maintenance of support of older applications
• Drools
• Quarkas

 

Consultancy Skills: 

• Strong client-facing skills, with the ability to bui