General Summary:
As a Senior Java Software Engineer you will join our highly skilled development team, working on our FINEOS implementation project. As part of a project team, working in conjunction with our business customer’s and the Fineos integration team, you will develop company specific extensions and configuration to the FINEOS product. You will be responsible for writing Java software, developing web service integrations and implementing solution upgrades as well as providing development consultancy to our business partners on our FINEOS product solutions and mentoring of more junior Java developers.
All our Software engineers work closely and collaborate with other developers, testers, business and technical consultants and other cross functional team members, adhering to our standards and processes. Our implementation projects generally follow the principles of Agile methodologies. The role provides on-call support, 1 in every 4 weeks - week long rotation of 24/7 on-call support, includes weekends.
What do you need to be successful?
Technical Job Specifications
- Bachelors of Computer Science is preferred, or equivalent relevant business experience
- 6+ years experience in software development and delivery track record in a range or roles in a scrum environment
- Experienced in Java
- Skilled in Agile development/methodologies
- Strong experience in continuous integration
- Strong experience of test driven development (TDD) and unit testing, leveraging automation toolsets
Role Competency Specifications
- Delivery & Execution Experience: Demonstrate a strong passion for delivering solutions that excite and delight our customers; holds self to high standards of delivery
- Decision & Influencing Experience: Ability to demonstrate strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Communication & Stakeholder Collaboration: Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills; experience leading groups of people through discussions, both technical or business centric.
- Effective & Versatile: Strong experience and energy to contribute within a team, project and/or initiative as a coach, mentor and key stakeholder.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads the conceptualization, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing features for the existing portfolio of applications for a business area
- Provides technical leadership and direction for EPIC features delivered
- Ensures application solution design conforms to agreed upon quality attributes such as performance, fault tolerance, etc.
- Design, codes, configures, unit tests, maintains, and documents software deliverables using agreed upon standards and tools.
- Collaborates with Principal SE and architects on coding standards, processes, tooling and frameworks required for the delivery of features in the sprint or product backlog
- May complete the design of components of an application that supports and advances the reference architecture.
- Ensures that solutions delivered by self or team members are secure and scalable, comply with defined standards and best practices .
- Actively looks for solutions that are buy over build and are cloud based.
- Ensures product backlog has appropriate technical stories and participates in their prioritization
- Provides ongoing and appropriate mentorship for Software Engineers and Associate Software Engineers
- Responsible for application solution quality from design and implementation to deploy and run.
- Participates in definition and maintenance of software standards
- Responsible for communication and collaboration with key stakeholders in the delivery of features
- Maintains depth of technical understanding of third party/cloud solutions and the company’s implementation of solutions.
- Evaluates technical impacts from and coordinates implementation of new product releases.
- Participates in sizing and estimation activities within the agile team
- Communicates daily with the Scrum Master or Technical Product Owner and the Agile team on progress made and planned progress for the coming day and reports any impediments that are blocking their progress
- Participates in code reviews and sprint retrospectives; ensuring their ideas for team continuous improvement are communicated so that the overall process and team can improve sprint by sprint and readily receives feedback for self-improvement
- Focuses on delivering business priority and value at all times
- Responsible for ensuring the quality of existing and new features through both manual and automated testing and use of continuous Integration techniques
- Demonstrates an interest in software architectures and seeks to design solutions in alignment with Company stated architecture and standards
- Participate in Proof Of Concept work and prototyping when necessary
- Collaborates with Business Analysts to confirm understanding of business requirements relating to features to be delivered and to help the Business Analyst define requirements that can be delivered from a technical perspective
- Collaborates with User Experience (UX) designers to ensure designs produced can be translated efficiently into working solutions for feature delivery
- Collaborate with Test Engineers and Senior Test Engineers as to ensure that software meets the definition of done; ensuring successful transition of work to the next stage of production during the sprints
- Contributes to an innovation culture in the team by suggesting improvement of deliveries and participates in evaluating new processes and technologies that can be applied to future feature delivery
- Collaborates with Technical Support Engineers to transition software features to a production environment ensuring that the deliveries meet application performance criteria, release standards; and ensures application and system stability.
- May serve in a Scrum Master role for an agile team
- Automates testing of software to industry standards of software automation ensuring very high quality application/solution delivery and efficient regression of existing features
- Ensures that the latest project progress is known to the agile team by ensuring Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are up to date and participating in daily standups outlining progress made, progress planned and detailing impediments
- Thinks with the mind of the end customer at all times, ensuring solutions seek to improve the customer experience and delight their customers.?
Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in Ireland or currently hold a Stamp 4 Visa to apply.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please do so via the relevant link. If you would like to discuss this role in confidence, please contact Nicole Pasquetti in itContracting directly.
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Ref: ITC3702
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