senior java developer for software company

You will drive delivery of pieces of work and maximise delivery to the business by creating a team environment where team members are empowered to succeed

You will help ensure an atmosphere of psychological safety and trust with the squads you are working with

You will understand and input into current and future squad capacity requirements

You will anticipate technical risks, communicate them effectively to the relevant stakeholders, and make architectural / design decisions to avoid them

You will be central to laying the foundations to the path ahead, working with Product Directors and Product Owners to understand business objectives, identify potential solutions and reduce uncertainty

You will proactively identify and help to refocus your team's efforts when projects are off-course or not technically feasible and results aren’t moving the needle for our business/team goals or serving the needs of customers in a meaningful way

Work closely with Product Owner and Technical Lead, ensuring high level designs (where required) and user stories are ready at the start of each sprint

Seek out opportunities to grow the skills and experience team members, using a coaching style of 1-1s to support their development

Facilitate agile ceremonies, leading where appropriate, ensuring meetings are focused, productive and fun and that the process adds value

Help to remove blockers to success, troubleshooting and mediating to find solutions where required

Ensure the achievements of the team are understood by recognizing them and promoting them within the business

Provide planning support and recommendations to Product Owner and Strategist

You will influence the direction of our Vendor Integration and Analytics Strategy coordinating multiple teams with the goal of speedy, efficient delivery

You work with other technology leads to drive better practices across the technology organisation

You will lead and build on an architectural strategy and vision, which is transparent, collaborative, and develops buy- in with the whole team

You will maintain a view of all the technologies we use across the WorkHuman estate and how they might evolve and to understand what impact that will have on the business

You will take the lead on proof-of-concept activities

You will be expected to influence significant changes in the interview process where appropriate to reflect the needs of the team

You will be expected to attract or refer other senior hires

You will continuously research and experiment with new and better approaches for all aspects of development tooling and workflows, and as a result is internally seen as a innovator on the subject

3+ years of experience in Java Development

BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or equivalent work experience

You have worked with large data volumes, including processing, transforming and transporting large-scale data

You have hands-on experience with AWS services like Data Pipelines, EMR, Glue, EC2, S3 etc

You may have knowledge of Redshift, HBase, Apache Spark, Spark streaming, Kafka, Scala, and similar technology stacks

You have experience on business intelligence data modelling and familiarity with data warehouse concepts such has star schema, data de-normalizing patterns, etc.

Competency in developing software with Relational or NoSQL databases

Experience in mentoring other team members about best practices, latest updates and version, and coding styles

You have helped introduce new dev/test/automation frameworks, languages, tools and have drive