Technical Team Lead - Java/JEE Developer (Senior)
Contract Test Triangle Ireland
Posted On 24/06/2025
Job Information
Technology
City Kildare
State/Province Kildare
R51
Job Description
Job Title: Technical Team Lead - Java/JEE Developer (Senior)
- Candidates must be willing to work from this location.
- Blended offsite/onsite working arrangement .
Contract / Permanent : 12 months with further extensions
No Of Positions: 2
Working within the island of Ireland is mandatory.
Minimum attendance of two days per week at the office.
Full-time, Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day (excluding breaks), between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Excludes public holidays observed in the Republic of Ireland.
Mandatory Requirements (Pass/Fail):
ü Experience Level: The candidate must have more than 7 years of relevant Technical Team Lead - Java/JEE Development experience at a senior level.
ü Availability: The candidate must be available to commence work from 3rd November 2025.
ü English Language Proficiency: The candidate must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.
The role of the Technical Lead will be as per the Senior Java Developer role description. In addition to this, the Technical Lead will provide direction and leadership to the development team towards a common technical vision in the delivery of the services to the Client.
• Provide the development team with technical leadership and guidance on application design options.
• Managing delivery as agreed and aligning team resources as required.
• Manage project source code and documentation.
• Ensure that all deliverables are tested to meet the standards as defined prior to deployment to the Quality Assurance team.
• Ensure production releases are compliant with the Department's release management standards.
• Conducting Developer Code Reviews to ensure adherence to Java coding standards.
• Provide continuity in all major application solution decisions.
• Progress and manage technical change items/requests.
• Advising developers on best practice and optimal approach in software development
• Organization of skills/knowledge transfer and mentoring to team members and Department staff.
• Creation of unit and integration test plans
• Writing and execution of unit and integration test plans.
The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.
Demonstrated ability in leading & coordinating a development team to produce optimized code of new systems and/or the refactoring of older frameworks.
Demonstrated expertise as a subject matter expert, designing application interfaces and software services to maximise reuse, based on the business processes and governance rules for sharing.
Demonstrated expertise leading teams in the development of new systems on Red Hat OpenShift.
Demonstrated expertise leading teams in the modernisation of existing applications onto the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
Demonstrated expertise of Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
Demonstrated experience in administering a Jenkins instance in order to build windows executables.
Toolset/Other Experience;
o OpenShift and Docker containers
o Active MQ Messaging (Red Hat AMQ Broker/JMS)
o 3Scale
o KeyCloak
o Spring JDBC
o Maven
o Gitlab
o Jenkins
o SonarQube
o ArtiFactory
o Jira
o Confluence
o Encryption
o Integration with external applications (3rd party software)
o XML and JSON
o Use of Ancillary Technologies below:
Technology:
OpenAPI
Progressive Web Apps
Service Workers
OpenID connect and Oauth protocols
Front-end CI pipelines
EJB2/EJB3 - for maintenance of support of older applications
