help lead the development of backend services for a government client leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies
designing, developing, documenting and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to our backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories
Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum
Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams
Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns

A Bachelor's degree or greater in Computer Science or a related field
at least 5 years of working experience in a similar capacity
JAVA programming experience as the core language, including Spring Boot
Fluent in writing JAVA coding
Experience with Kafka or a similar platform
Experience with Scala and Spark
Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
Working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams
Using GitHub/GitLab for source control
Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
Experience in Big Data technologies
Experience in Public Cloud services, such as AWS

Lead Data Platform Engineer, eDV

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