Application Developer Tech Lead

About the position

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Determine operational feasibility, system analysis, problem definition, solution design and development.
• Develop in compliance with Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) architecture utilizing Axon Framework, Mongo, Maria DB, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Tomcat and Apache Camel.
• Design and development Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web-services (SOAP/REST) using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, Kafka, ActiveMQ which could be deployed to various application servers like WebLogic, JBOSS and tomcat.
• Develop Platform as a Service (PaaS) using Chef, Oracle VirtualBox, Ruby, Vagrant and GoCD to build and deploy cloud applications.
• Prepare the technical architecture, design documents, database schema’s as per the Barclays design guidelines.
• Mentor other developers in understanding the existing application architecture, design, and coding practices.
• Work closely with other stakeholders and teams like networking, information security, partners, vendors for end-to-end project implementation.
• Design Unit Testing framework for each and every module with Citrus, TestNG and JMockito to ensure quality code delivery.
• Do root cause analysis of any production incidents and provide resolution within the Barclays defined incident SLA.
• Resolve and communicate technology issues and risks to Business and technology stakeholders of the project.
• Supervise a team of two (2) software developers.

Requirements

• Experience in software development using industry aligned programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of scalable and maintainable code practices.
• Experience with secure coding practices and unit testing.
• Familiarity with Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) architecture.
• Experience in designing and developing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web-services.
• Knowledge of cloud application deployment using PaaS tools.
• Ability to prepare technical architecture and design documents.
• Experience in mentoring and guiding other developers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to perform root cause analysis.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Axon Framework, Mongo, Maria DB, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Tomcat, and Apache Camel.
• Familiarity with Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, and various application servers like WebLogic and JBOSS.
• Experience with Chef, Oracle VirtualBox, Ruby, Vagrant, and GoCD.
• Knowledge of Citrus, TestNG, and JMockito for unit testing.

Benefits

• Incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.
• Opportunities for collaboration and making a difference.
• Recognition programs.