JAVA Technical Lead

A prestigious government department in Canberra requires the services of a Java Technical Lead.

The services will include and not be limited to:

- Provide technical direction for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of large and complex applications;
- Provide technical leadership to Java developers;
- Provide quality assurance of design, code and technical dependencies across multiple development components and streams;
- Provide status reporting to Development Manager;
- Provide development effort estimates for changes to existing applications and new applications;
- Implement DIBP's Java standards (including design, development and unit testing standards);
- Develop, maintain and unit test system components;
- Provide coding, unit testing and maintain complex J2EE applications and components.
- Develop new and update existing system design documentation;
- Liaise with business analysts and testers to efficiently deliver high quality work.
- Provide defect management including:
- triage of defects to determine priorities and defect fix implementation;
- analysis and identification of the root causes contributing to incidents and problems - Transfer technical knowledge and skills to other staff.

MANDATORY/ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

- Specified Personnel must be willing to undergo and obtain an Employment Suitability Clearance (ESC);
- Minimum 5+ years' hands on experience as a Java Tech Lead;
- Experience in the following technologies: Java (J2EE, Servlets and JSP/JSF, EJBJavaScript), as well as the ability to quickly gain knowledge of other open source technologies
- An understanding of MQ, Rational Clear Case, Rational Buildforge and the IBM WebSphere technology stack (IBM DataPower, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere MessageBroker, IBM WebSphere Process server);
- Demonstrated significant experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle;
- Demonstrated analysis, design and development skills;
- Ability to work as part of a development team and with business areas;
- Ability to work autonomously and possess strong technical and personal leadership skills;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills;
- Strong representation skills and delivering presentations;
- Ability to mentor other team members;

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

- Experience working within government agencies;
- Minimum 5 years' experience developing primarily in one or more of the following:
- JavaScript,
- XSLT,
- HTML; and
- Cascading Style Sheets; - Experience with Oxygen or other XML/XSLT editing and debugging tools;
- Accessibility, Usability standards including WCAG, WAI-ARIA
- Rational ClearCase;
- Maven;
- Experience working in a SOA environment;
- SQL preferably with Oracle or DB2;
- Specified Personnel holds a current security clearance (baseline clearance as a minimum)

Australian Citizenship is mandatory and Security Clearance of Baseline is desirable.

Kindly rush in your applications ASAP.