Senior Technical Lead – Java, API

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 219,000+ people across 54 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.

The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.

At HCLTech Australia, we value the unique perspective and contributions of all individual and we actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

Are you ready to be an important part of this ever-transformational journey?

Location - Wellington

Job type: Full time

Job Role Overview:

About the role

What will your day look like

Your typical day is likely to include:

• Proactively providing technical leadership as well as being hands-on and willing to get stuck into the team with any tasks, including development, testing, business analysis.
• Increasing the speed and frequency of tackling technical debt, platform health and feature delivery.
• Contributing to solution design and direction setting for the team.
• Working with Product Owners and Business Analysts and translating business requirements into elegant solution design.
• Working with Lead Engineers and other Chief Analyst Programmer in uplifting our overall engineering capabilities in the Microservices area, as well as align with our future architecture direction.
• Continuously simplifying and automating our build, test and deployment practices.
• Creating a learning culture as well as sharing your knowledge with the team.
• Providing guidance to other team members, mentoring and coaching of less experienced team members

What will you bring?

We know not everyone will bring all of the skills and experience, we are focused on people bringing a growth mindset to their approach to work. Some of the skills we are looking for are below, but don't worry if you don't have all of these as learning on the job is the way we work.

Some of the skills will include:

• Analyse, understand, and maintain large and complex codebases.
• Refactor and optimize existing code for performance, readability, and maintainability.
• Experience working with Large and complex monolithic systems and experience in leading Java development at an enterprise level
• Strong technical leadership and extensive experience in leading commercial software development with Microservices/API as a senior technical lead.
• Extensive experience working on solution design and API design.
• Experience in Java development at an enterprise level (Spring Boot, Java 17+, Spring)
• Extensive experience developing secure internet facing APIs and integration (REST/JSON, Kafka, message queues)
• Analyse, understand, and maintain large and complex codebases.
• Refactor and optimize existing code for performance, readability, and maintainability.
• In depth technical knowledge of database systems (Oracle, SQL Server).
• Experience working with Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration pipelines.
• Experience working with container platforms (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes).
• Extensive DevOps knowledge including
• Configuring continuous integration, deployment, and delivery tools like Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Container-based development using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Instrumenting monitoring and logging of applications
• Experience working with Microservice on AWS (EKS, Codefresh, GitHub Actions).
• Experience working with offshore squad cross different time zone.
• Experience in production support.
• You are a great communicator. You are happy to work alongside a team where you talk openly and constructively about technical issues.
• You enjoy working with a team, are passionate about solving complex problems, you will be comfortable with the unknowns and strive to understand them, are adaptable to change and provide hands-on guidance to support others success.

You're not expected to have 100% of these skills. A growth mindset is at the heart of our culture and we actively encourage people to try new things. So if this role interests you and you feel you have most of these things in your toolbox, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Us

We are one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world, with offices in 50+ countries across the globe and 219,000 employees.

• Our company is extremely diverse with 165 nationalities represented.
• We offer the opportunity to work with colleagues across the globe.
• We offer a virtual-first work environment, promoting a good work-life integration and real flexibility.
• We offer comprehensive benefits for all employees.
• We are a certified great place to work and a top employer in 17 countries, offering a positive work environment that values employee recognition and respect.

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, colour, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law

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