Lead Java Developer
- 80 Victoria St, London SW1E 5JL, UK Full-time
- Department: Product Development
- Role Type: Hybrid
- Employee Status: Regular
- Schedule: Full Time
Company Description
Hybrid / Flexible working arrangements can be discussed
Who are Experian?
We are the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.
We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Our approach to flexible working
We care about work that works, whether that’s about where you work or adjusting your hours to fit better with your life. Our flexible working practices, including our hybrid working model where you can split your working time between the office and your home, support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as ensuring that our people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. So that you can love where you work, please discuss what works for you with your recruiter during the hiring process.
Accepting you, for you.
We want you to feel accepted for who you are and to feel safe, valued and to help us build a culture of true belonging. Experian is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, Veteran status or whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.
Job Description
This is a great opportunity to join our Global Software Services team as a Lead Java Developer.
Responsibilities:
- Work together with PO and Engineering Manager to define, refine, develop, test and deliver against functional requirements
- Works with an architecture team to design the components of the product suite
- Be instrumental in designing, developing and maintaining related infrastructure
- Participate in all phases of software engineering life cycle
- Provide necessary guidance and instructions for the Development team in regards of implementation of new features and capabilities
- Play key role in planning, to discuss requirements and divide larger pieces of work into tasks
- Help to coordinate the work within the boundaries of the team
- Provides input to the project delivery plan, including sizing and estimation if required, with regards to one’s areas of responsibility
- Being accountable for delivering correct, performant and reliable code by the team on schedule and according to specification
- Insure that the team is following all agreed processes of SDLC and leads the efforts to review and improve them constantly
- Collaborates and partners across different departments including support, consulting, product management, and engineering
Qualifications
An experienced Java SE developer with knowledge and understanding of transformation of complex data structures to lead scrum team in developing new features for the complex and interesting product.
Essential Skills
- Excellent knowledge of Java with a minimum of version 8 of Java
- Java Functional programming and functional programming in general
- Java Collections, Java Generics, Java Reflection API
- Unit-testing (Junit)
- BDD testing (Cucumber)
- Knowledge of complex hierarchical data structures (i.e. JSON, XML etc) and understanding data transformation processes
- Knowledge and experience in optimising code to minimise memory and heap usage
- Experience in CI/CD automation (Jenkins as a tool, preferably)
- Dynamic Java compilation and class loading
- Understanding of programming and traversing graph structures
- Multi-threading and concurrent Java programming
- Experience and excellent understanding of Agile development frameworks
Preferred Skills
- Java SWING
- Understanding of UI/UX principals and good practices
- Experience of complex data transformation particularly with hierarchical data structures
- Apache Avro APIs and files
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Understanding of hierarchical and relational data processing including joining, filtering and merging
- General relational data theory and hierarchical theory
Useful Qualities
- A desire to produce simplicity and ease-of-use in their development
- A desire to promote and support whole team approach concept
- A desire to improve team technical abilities and synergy
Additional Information
Why choose us?
Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money, and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or preparing for the next big milestone in your life, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!
For this role in particular, you have the opportunity to work in a hybrid role, meaning that your working pattern is split between home working and office working each week. Alongside 25 days of annual leave, you are able to buy up to 8 extra days of holiday. We also offer the opportunity to buy shares in Experian which mature over 3 -5 years and can then be sold, an annual bonus, a generous pension contribution, dental insurance, bike to work scheme, access to discount codes for things like online shopping or cinema tickets, and much more!
To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our interactive guide here: https://view.pagetiger.com/experianguideforcandidates/1
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