Software Engineering Lead
 

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers high-quality software to our customers?
 

Are you a highly visible champion with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others?
 

About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Government vertical, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government

About our Team
 

Generally, the team is form in Squad where each squad consist of Squad Lead, Business Analyst, Dev lead, Developers and Testers. This Squad structure provides more connectivity among team members and allows us to deliver faster as all resources work as one group on dedicated tasks.
 

About the Role

As a Software Engineering Lead, you will play a crucial role in overseeing software development within your specific area of responsibility. Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks, from technical problem-solving to team management.

Responsibilities

Initial Point of Contact:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for software development issues within your designated area.
• Respond to audit inquiries, production incidents, impact analyses, and resolve dependencies related to non-sprint tasks.

Requirements and Solution Design:

• Collaborate with technical team members to finalize requirements.
• Participate in requirements gathering, estimation, and planning.
• Incorporate security and technical debt estimation into project plans.
• Own the solution design phase, liaising with architects and following secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) practices.
• Translate moderately complex product requirements into detailed solution designs, including spikes, proof of concepts (POCs), design documents, and diagrams.

Technical Excellence:

• Implement development processes and coding best practices across the team.
• Create checklists and ensure compliance with secure coding practices.
• Review Checkmarx and Black Duck reports.
• Resolve technical issues as needed and work with complex data models.

Team Collaboration:

• Collaborate closely with other development team members.
• Mentor and train entry-level software engineers.
• Engage with new team members during onboarding and initial troubleshooting.
• Foster productivity and guide their growth.

Tech Awareness:

• Stay up-to-date with the latest technology developments.
• Utilize self-learning, training programs, and mentorship.
• Participate in portfolio chapters to drive improvements.
• Advocate for tech stack enhancements within the team.

Management Responsibilities:

• Adhere to organizational policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Conduct hiring, interviews, and performance appraisals.
• Oversee Squad 1, including productivity, task planning, and operational excellence.
• Provide training and resources to maximize staff performance.
• Facilitate change by identifying improvement opportunities.
• Offer frequent feedback and coaching to exceed expectations.
• Collaborate with direct reports on performance plans, career paths, and succession planning.
• Encourage innovation and empower staff to take ownership.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Additional Duties:

• Handle other responsibilities as assigned.
• Align with LNRS processes, track and manage technical debt, and plan for its reduction.

Requirement

• 10+ years of prior experience as a developer on java, J2EE and webservices projects, not including training and education projects
• Minimum 3 years of experience in leading teams of size 6 and above.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Major, or equivalent experience
• Good handle on concepts of cyber security, cloud technologies and agile methodology
• Experience with Spring Boot, Micro Services, Hibernate, JPA, Angular, Lucene, jQuery frameworks
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and Graph QL.
• Experience working with Relational and Non-relational databases.
• Nice to have – Experience working with more than 1 large projects to get a good view of architecture concepts and pitfalls.

Technical Skills

• Java8 and above, J2EE (Mandatory)
• Angular (Mandatory)
• Spring, Micro Services, Spring Boot, REST API, GraphQL, Hibernate
• Tomcat / Apache
• Elastic Search/Marklogic
• Kafka, SNS, SQS
• Oracle / SQL Server
• XML, XSL
• HTML, Java Script, Angular
• Web Services
• AWS, Docker

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