Summary

As a Lead Engineer you will join our highly skilled Product team. Your role will be responsible for solution design, translating business requirements and terms into product design and technical concepts. You will also engage in active development to deliver those solutions. You will be working closely with Product Owner, Analyst and Architect and your role will be crucial for the team to fully own, design, plan and deliver end-to-end feature implementation.

Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned.)

• Involved in early planning and design to line up features that are in a state of readiness to be broken into User Stories that provide business value.
• Produce solution design with relevant technical specification documents to support a strong implementation. This may include wireframes, UML, data models and diagrams.
• Identify matches to existing product functionality and identify application gaps.
• Work closely with developers and QA engineers to deliver best design and implementation of features within the team
• Support ongoing development of features and provide guidance on design and priority decisions.
• Provide and enhance product documentation to support future support, extension and usage.

Education and/or Experience

• Minimum 5 years Java development experience
• Experience in developing, debugging and troubleshooting enterprise web applications
• Experience in modelling complex data in a structured and flexible manner using OO Analysis and Design (OOAD) & notation (UML).
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and working knowledge of Agile methodologies e.g. SCRUM, SAFe.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Able to independently analyze requirements and come up with a sound and sustainable solution design
• Ability to translate business requirements to technical specification is essential to this role.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to explain complicated processes and concepts to non-experts.
• Knowledge & understanding of the insurance industry would be a distinct advantage.

Technical Skills

• Java, REST, SOAP, JSP, ORM
• Application servers - experience with one or more of JBoss, Tomcat
• Databases: Oracle
• Development Tools: Gradle, Jenkins, Junit, Git

Language Skills

• Ability to speak the English language proficiently, both verbally and in writing.

Travel Requirements

• This position may require adhoc occasional travel.