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Job Title: Java/Kotlin Engineer Manager – Travel & Lifestyle
Location: Burgess Hill 2/3x a week
Salary/Rate: Up to £345 Daily
Start Date: October
Job Type: Initial 6 month contract Inside IR35
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our enterprise financial clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Engineer Manager to join their team for an initial six-month contract.
The Sr. Engineering Manager actively provides people-leadership, deep technical knowledge and contributes to the engineering team that will design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, deploy, document, and ensure reliability and availability for the software and systems that meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end-user tools and applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
- Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
- Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
- Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
- Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
- Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
- Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices
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Essential Criteria – Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
- Experience of active engineering – Experienced with Kotlin / Java
- Leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
- Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
- Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
- Experienced ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)


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Essential Criteria – Technical Skills
- Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
- Observability – Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry standard frameworks like Sentry
- Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI.
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