Lead Engineer - Java

About the role

The Zellis Intelligence Platform (ZIP) is a purpose-built application designed to deliver a source of data for Analytics and Data Integration. We have built a schema that presents the key data points necessary to drive insightful analytics and data visualisations through Power BI whilst also delivering a suite of APIs to enable third party solutions to integrate with Zellis HCM Cloud.

The team responsible for developing and maintaining the ZIP software, including the vast suite of Read and Write APIs, as well our "Notification Hub" product, is expanding to cope with the increased demand for new data and integration solutions. We will be creating a second engineering team made up of a new engineering lead, multiple engineers and multiple test engineers.

In this role your key responsibilities will be:

• Take overall responsibility for the quality of the product area covered by your team.
• Provide leadership and day-to-day line management of a team of java and test engineers, including the coaching and mentoring of individual team members.
• Promote best practice to continually raise standards and challenge team members to look for their own solution.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and product owners to ensure the successful and robust execution of seamless integration of data between multiple systems.
• Role model the use of Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring accurate completion to promote continuous improvement.
• Ensure the team follow the SCRUM agile methodology ensuring all ceremonies are adhered to - planning, retrospectives and demos.
• Suggest and develop improvements to our current product offering.
• Respond appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with changes, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures.
• To actively undertake research and development in improving areas of the ZIP application suite.
• Provide 2 nd line support to our application and technical support teams. Skills & experience
  
  • At least three years experiencing leading an engineering team, using Agile methodologies.
  • Strong experience in developing with the following technologies:
    • Java - version 11 and later.
    • Spring, Spring boot and Spring Security
    • JPA
    • Kafka Connect
    • Azure Cloud
    • REST APIs
    • The ODATA protocol
    • OAUTH authentication
    • JUNIT
    • Mokito
    • Karate
    • Cucumber
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Postman
    • Good experience in using Structured Query Language (SQL).
    • Some experience in using HELM and Terraform.
    • Must have good analytical and proactive problem-solving skills, recommending solutions.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    • Ability to work well and calmly under pressure with both internal and external stakeholders.
    • Background in HR and payroll data validation (preferred, but not Mandatory). Benefits & culture
      At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.
      
      Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:
      
      Unstoppable together.
      Always learning.
      Make it count.
      Think scale.
      Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive.
      
      We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive:
      
      A competitive salary.
      Excellent career progression opportunities.
      Transportation to the office (up to 30kms).
      Casual, privilege and sick leave, plus your birthday off.
      Group medical insurance.
      Personal accident insurance.
      Life assurance.
      A range of additional flexible benefits to support personal wellbeing.