Roles and Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast-paced agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure.

• Understand whole product, its modules, and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module.

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate, and justify the estimate with facts.

• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision.

• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas; seek and provide feedback on design and development.

• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs.

• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.

• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment.

• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.

• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.

• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimising/improving it through design and best coding practices.

• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice.

Technical Skills:

• An extensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, analysis of algorithms, object-oriented analysis and design, software design patterns and Java coding principles.

• Advanced experience of Java and Spring / Spring boot frameworks.

• Advanced experience with micro-services architecture and web services (REST, SOAP).

• Hand-on experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Hands-on experience with web development using JavaScript, ideally TypeScript and Angular.

• Experience with languages such as Golang, Python.

Business Acumen:

• Ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary.

• Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence.

• Recognises collaborative behaviour and participates in collaborative activities.

• Understand the technology landscape, up to date on current technology trends and new technology, brings new ideas to the team.

• Displays understanding of the project’s value proposition for the customer. Shows commitment to deliver the best value proposition for the targeted customer.

• Learns organisation vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organisation vision.

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.

• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends.

• Has the ability to analyse impact of technology choices.

Personal/Leadership Attributes:

• Demonstrates strong problem solving and organisational skills.

• Ability to work independently and as an exceptional team player including cross-functional and global teams with time-zone flexibility.

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills and effectively delegate work.

• Ability to analyse complex technical user requirements and translate them to development tasks.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

• Significant and demonstrated years of experience in commercial software development / advanced experience (UK).

Desired Technical Expertise:

• Master’s Degree / PhD in Computer Science.

• Experience working on software projects in the Energy domain (Energy Management, Oil & Gas, Power & Water).

• Certified Scrum Master and/or Product Owner.

• Experience of AI/ML techniques / methodologies.

• An advanced understanding of Wide Area Monitoring and Control Systems (WAMCS).