Job Description<\/p>\n
\tTo provide expert advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvements
\n\tResponsible for leading and developing a team of technical resources that provide operational project and technical support<\/p>\n
Role summary<\/p>\n
\tOwn the design, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise-grade Java\/Spring applcations. Set technical vision, lead cross-team initiatives, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, observable, and easy to evolve.<\/p>\n
Key outcomes<\/p>\n
\tDeliver resilient, performant APIs and event-driven services that meet security, compliance, and scalability standards.
\n\tHelp establish and enforce engineering standards: clean architecture, testing, CI\/CD, observability.
\n\tMentor and grow engineers (incl. seniors), lead code\/design reviews, and run calibrated technical interviews.
\n\tAlign engineering delivery with business goals, own production service health.<\/p>\n
Experience & qualifications<\/p>\n
\t10+ years building and operating enterprise-grade Java systems at scale.
\n\tTrack record designing enterprise platforms, APIs, and microservices ecosystems.
\n\tDemonstrated authority in Java\/Spring with design oversight across teams.<\/p>\n
Core technical expertise<\/p>\n
\tJava mastery: Advanced OOP, collections, streams, exceptions, lambdas; deep knowledge of concurrency and memory management, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
\n\tSpring ecosystem (expert): Spring Boot, Spring Security (OAuth2, JWT, CSRF, RBAC), Spring Data JPA, Spring AOP; robust exception handling; profiles\/config; modular, reusable components.
\n\tMicroservices & integration: Spring Cloud (Config, Eureka, Gateway), service discovery, API gateways, inter-service communication; resilience patterns (retry\/timeout\/circuit breakers with Resilience4j); REST clients; asynchronous flows with MQ\/events; versioned REST APIs with OpenAPI\/Swagger.<\/p>\n
Data design:<\/p>\n
\tSchema design and evolution, transactional integrity, and JPA query optimization.
\n\tArchitecture & patterns: DDD, clean architecture, domain events, proper abstraction\/boundaries; secure coding practices.<\/p>\n
Testing:<\/p>\n
\tUnit & integration tests with JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers; high-value test strategy and coverage; CI test gating.<\/p>\n
Observability & ops: <\/p>\n
\tEnd-to-end tracing, metrics, logs; Prometheus\/Grafana, ELK (or equivalent); SLOs\/error budgets; Post-incident reviews and reliability improvements.
\n\tDevOps & tooling
\n\tCI\/CD (advanced): Bamboo, BitBucket; pipeline design, gated quality checks, Maven automation.
\n\tContainers & orchestration: Docker (images, Dockerfiles, docker-compose); Kubernetes(development focus) (preferred\/expected at this level)\u2014deployments, config\/secret mgmt, ingress.
\n\tSource control: Strong Git practices\u2014branching strategies, PR workflows, code ownership.
\n\tMonitoring & logging: ELK\/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana (or equivalents).<\/p>\n
Security & compliance<\/p>\n
\tSpring Security end-to-end (authn\/authz), token management, service-to-service trust.
\n\tSecrets management, perimeter and app-level security, least-privilege access.
\n\tOWASP-aligned secure coding, dependency and image scanning, SAST\/DAST integration in CI.<\/p>\n
Leadership & collaboration<\/p>\n
\tProven team leadership: mentoring, coaching, performance reviews, and hiring\/interviewing.
\n\tDeep code\/design reviews; owns service health and operational readiness.
\n\tExcellent communication and stakeholder management; translates business needs into scalable designs.
\n\tAgile delivery (Scrum\/Kanban): sprint planning, backlog grooming, release management.
\n\tDrives cross-team initiatives, platform migrations and re-desing efforts;
\n\tChampions knowledge-sharing (talks\/workshops); elevates engineering culture.<\/p>\n
End Date: September 20, 2025<\/p>\n
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