Lead Developer/Technical Architect

For our banking client we are currently looking for a

Lead Developer/Technical Architect

Start date: ASAP
End date: 30/11/2017
Location: Zurich

As a Lead Developer/Technical Architect you will

- Influence the technical choices and solutions of a business critical system
- Leverage new technologies to improve quality and reduce risk - Scala, Git, Vaadin/Angular JS
- Work within a technically skilled and driven team including a large offshore presence
- Regular business contact - direct communication with the business to help solve real problems
- Opportunities to shape improvements to our production quality and deployment story
- Wide ranging technical challenges on strategic projects - both directing development and deep-dive coding as needed

The ideal candidate shall bring

- Wide ranging experience in varied architectures, environments and integration
- Deep full-life cycle experience of project/product life cycle with experience on technical and infrastructure requirements gathering
- Development management and control experience:

o Application/Library ownership
o SCM tools - Git
o Tracking tools - JIRA
o Quality tools - coverage
- In-depth experience of development with:

o Oracle or similar enterprise DB
o Java - J2SE, JEE
o Build systems - Maven
o Middleware technologies - MQ/TIBCO
o Scripting languages/Unix architectures
- Solution space experience:

o Multi-threading/Solutions at scale
o Web/Gui technologies - eg Vaadin/Angular JS/JSF/Play
o ORMs/JDBC
o Integration tools/Libraries

Soft Skills:

Team Leadership (technical or otherwise)
Communication with stakeholders/clients
Understanding of project, risk management techniques and processes (experience of working in Scrum a plus)
Ability to explain deeply technical concepts in a simple fashion
A focus on quality with a clear understanding of pragmatic delivery (including realistic deliverables)

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.