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Senior Lead Software Engineer 

Full Java Stack Developer 

Purpose of the Role

The role covers all stages of the software development lifecycle from strategy, application design & development to system amendment, maintenance and support. Development tasks will have a mixture of business and technical deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the strategic direction for software development across the I.S. Enterprise Architecture
• Ensures requirements and proposed solutions align with technology domains and business area strategic directions.
• Contributes to/forms the strategic directions for the use of concepts, technologies, languages, patterns, APIs, and frameworks.
• Promotes the use of new I.T. industry standards, processes and practices. 
• Identifies and tests underlying development assumptions
• Applies due diligence when making decisions under conditions of uncertainty and high pressure.
• Utilises structured approach to effectively manage project/programme components

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies

• Experience in leading development of complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers. Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, Serviceoriented architectures (SOA) and relational databases.
• 7+ years Java programming experience with at least 3 years in a team leading role
• Highly proficient in Java Full Stack Technologies. Track record of delivering high quality, complex technical solutions

Desired Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of insurance or financial services industry applications and functionality. 
• Experience developing Broker IT / Broker portal solutions for the Insurance Industry
• Knowledge and experience of Angular, npm, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Experience using JIRA
• Working knowledge of German language
• 3rd level qualification in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline