Lead Developer

Remote

United Kingdom

Full Time

18-03-2025

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Job Specifications

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Position Overview:

The Specialty EMR Data Team (SEMRD) are looking for a Lead Developer to support and grow the Vantage SaaS application and associated services within the AWS environment.

Working in a demanding environment and reporting directly to the Head of IT, the role will have a wide-ranging remit from leading on new developments, mentoring, incident resolution, ongoing maintenance, inception and development of new products.

The role comes with significant opportunities and the post holder will spend a considerable proportion of their time working on time critical projects utilising agile methodologies.

You will be the point of contact for other developers in the team when they encounter technical issues. You will use your knowledge and experience to guide them through the issue until resolution.

Duties and Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned):

The Lead developer will provide full stack web application development and maintenance for Vantage.
Provide project support and planning mentorship to the Product Team for new developments and improvements on existing products.
Perform a consultancy/advisory role when presented with new challenges, including utilising new technology to streamline and improve the products and associated infrastructure.
Investigate, own and resolving incidents raised by internal and external clients.
Lead on time sensitive projects whilst mentoring and advising other team members.
Consult and implement data engineering/ETL processes efficiently when required.
Provide operational support including infrastructure setup, maintenance and software releases.
Investigate and fix bugs discovered within Vantage and its associated modules.
Working with the internal tester to make sure they understand the applications being developed enabling them to carry out full regression testing.
Ensuring any given development work meets the defined business requirements.
Implement standard methodology by developing and following the defined processes and procedures
Explain and document technical issues to non-technical staff to ensure they understand each development.
Any other duties that are considered as falling under the remit and responsibilities of this post.

Education, Professional Skills & Experience:

Educated to degree level in a numerate field, or equivalent qualification in computer sciences.
At least 5 years of experience as a Java web application developer
Experience of full stack web application development using:
Java, Scala, Spring, Hibernate
JSP, Servlets, REST
JavaScript, jQuery, React, Redux, Typescript, CSS, SCSS
JUnit, ScalaTest, Cucumber, WebDriver & TDD
Jenkins
Apache Tomcat, nginx
Redshift, MariaDB
Bash scripts
Python
Experience developing full stack greenfield applications from inception to development and deployment.
Experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) - EC2, S3, Redshift.
Experience of big data and tools such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.
Knowledge and experience of object orientated programming and associated concepts.
Knowledge and experience of a wide range of open source and commercial technologies.
Good understanding of databases and related concepts.
Should have sound knowledge of HTML and associated Web Technologies.
Experience of agile methodologies.
Experience of teamwork and effective communication and being a mentor.
Linux (CentOS) administration/AWS, DevOps, SSH.
Experience in automatic testing and continuous integration.

Personal Skills & Proficiencies:

Commercial experience in a similar environment is highly desirable.
Hard-working, motivated individual with end-to-end Java web application development experience.
Comfortable in taking sole responsibility for the implementation and delivery of projects.
Confidence and ability to deliver web applications from beginning to end.
Enthusiastic about technology and comfortable taking the initiative with modern technologies and techniques.
Excellent listening skills, inquisitive with a desire to learn.
Superb communication and exceptional interpersonal skills.
Ability to communicate so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Ability to perform under stress and multitask.
Regular and consistent attendance.
Willing to travel to the Hammersmith office when required.

About the Company

About Thermo Fisher Scientific Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our gl... Know more

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