Senior Cloud Solutions Developer

Description:

Canada Life Europe (CLE) is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Developer to help leading the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership in support of initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms. The person will have a strong development background and experience in building large scale n-tier systems. They must have experience of working in an Agile Continuous Integration environment. The applicant must be a Senior Engineer with leadership experience and focused on quality of implementation.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in working with software development teams, specifically developing Java web services and Spring components, with a track record of high quality delivery, combined with a keen appetite for all aspects of software engineering. Working closely with the Head of Software Engineering, this role is a Lead role providing direction and leadership to teams, including mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices.
• Responsible for porting existing applications to a microservices based architecture.
• Hands on development activities
• Hands on support and upskilling of existing resources, providing patterns for common problems and developing prototypes.
• Work as part of a Scrum team using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles.
• Contribute to/form the strategic directions for the use of concepts, technologies, languages, patterns, APIs, and frameworks.
• Mentors provides direction, and assist with development plans for other members of the software development team;

Key Strengths

• Hands on experience of designing and building n-tier systems
• Experience with Java, Spring framework, Spring Boot
• Experience in Containerisation - Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with cloud platform, Azure, AWS or other
• Have good knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles and methodologies
• Demonstrate experience of working in a test driven environment with continuous integration pipelines managing the orchestration of feature and regression test packaging & execution
• Demonstrate hands on experience of testing code quality & metric production & the implementation of quality gates