Senior Lead Developer - Hybris/J2EE (8-12 yrs) (Talent500)

The role you'd play

IT technical :

- Be the subject matter expert in the specific technical area you own

- Use technical expertise to deliver the right solutions and services for Pentland

- Ensure the platforms have the right level of availability, aligned to the requirements of the solution and the agreed budget.

- Responsible for delivering all the service and project related elements of the technology area you own.

- Provide the necessary quality assurance for the technical solutions

- Ensure the right technical governance is adopted and documentation is in place

- Provide the right level of technical mentoring and coaching to the team members

Team management and Project Management:

- Provide the right guidance and support to the respective team including prioritisation, resource plan, and PDRs etc.

- Identify and resolve issues that would stop you, and the team delivering to agreed budget and timescales

- Development of plan for your own area, understanding how to feeds into an overall project plan.

- Understand overall project methodology and how to work within a project environment.

- Vendor management and alignment skills when in project, and accountable for the performance of any third party.

- Identify, highlight and plan mitigation for risks in own area.

- The point of contact and represent teams, and departments interest in a project, focusing on reporting, and delivering the projects to realise the business benefits.

IT leadership:

- Able to have challenging conversations, and construct the message in a structured and clear way

- Use relevant techniques to influence and present views and thoughts in a persuasive and credible way

Support and Service :

- Actively participate in the Business change review, prioritisation & management process

- Understand the impact of the change (big or small) and being able to sign off the right solutions

- Contribute to the Release & Change management forums where is needed (CRB, TAB & CAB)

- Understand the Pentland customer centric service management framework

The must haves :

General :

- Good communication skills, both oral and written, including ability to conduct formal and informal presentations and workshops with the ability to communicate across all levels of the business.

- Well organised and able to prioritise, communicate and manage expectations within team.

- Committed to having a continuous improvement mind-set that spans people, processes, technologies and own self.

- Able to deliver quality work and to commit to and meet deadlines.

- Managing and mentor team members performing engineering & technical activities in the area of software engineering. Provide periodic updates to the management in the form of progress report, project summaries and other related documents

- Demonstrate people management experience with direct line management responsibilities, handling team appraisals and development plans.

- Ability to build solutions / design and guide all team members to deliver solutions with first time quality

- Good understanding of the business drivers for which their application is providing support

- Ability to manage onshore and offshore development team to ensure on time delivery of system releases

Technical:

- Provide oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Determine architecturally significant requirements. Define technical risks & mitigation strategy and define technical dependencies & dependency management strategy

- Must have expert understanding of standard product functionality in Hybris, ability to guide developers in building technical solutions predominantly using Hybris standard functionality and keeping customizations to the minimum

- Experience in successfully designing, developing, testing (including unit test automation) and deploying (including deployment automation) of SAP Hybris & J2EE applications.

- API development, Microservices Architecture, Service Mesh Architecture, Contention / Priority management

- Experienced in best practices and tools around CI/CD

- Experience setting up Git repositories for projects, managing multiple projects- workflows, and troubleshooting complex issues with Git

- Experience of project planning and project management methods - experience with Agile delivery - experience with JIRA preferable

- Ability to design and configure processes in SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris)

- A good appreciation of the processes and issues in other application areas, especially where that area overlaps with their own. (e.g.: eCommerce, Salesforce Sales & Service, SAP)

- Designing detailed business and technical specifications for programming and other resources, both in house and 3rd party vendors/partners

If this sounds like the perfect role, please apply and we'll be in touch soon.

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