Main Purpose of the Job:

As part of the Unilever Tech 2.0 platform based strategy where we focus on our key business priorities, work with fewer, strategic vendors, in source more technical expertise and up skill our people.

This role forms part of the Consumer Performance Platform, building a technology platform that will create a holistic view of our consumer, covering an increasing number of consumer data sources globally. Additionally, the platform will contain all our Digital Assets, Recipes and Product Information

As a result :

- We will KNOW our consumer and products so that our consumers interact through an experience that aligns to their preferences and interests which, in turn, gives us better relationships with our customers than our competitors

- We will EMPOWER our consumer so that they have access to content that will encourage them to be brand advocates which gives us the ability to increase our reach and sales

Main Accountabilities :

Software Development :

- Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for key marketing systems, delivering high-availability and performance as part of a growing and evolving DevOps team.

- Including API, web and mobile applications, User Experience, Standalone applications for validation or pre-processing.

- Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.

- Ensure designs deliver against specifications.

- Key support and contribution to the end-to-end ownership of the platforms.

- Aligning to DevOps principles and end-to-end ownership, all members of the Consumer Performance team may be involved in resolving incidents / technical issues outside of normal working hours, while this is rare all members of the team may be required to be available as part of resolution and be on an On Call Rota.

- Contribute to evolving tool sets, simplification of software development lifecycle and drive towards efficient automation.

- Participation in project scoping, requirements reviews, and technical discovery efforts.

- Applying effective software engineering principles, object design, security, data interchange and data management to all parts of software lifecycle.

Team Development :

- Mentoring and coaching development team.

- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternative approaches and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

- Drive end-to-end agile DevOps based software development life cycle with automation in mind.

- Ownership and responsibility for Java Coding standards, code review process and ensuring compliance.

- Lead team to collaborate and contribute to Architectural design decisions.

Experience Required :

- 8+ years of professional experience architecting, developing, and launching software products

- 3-5 years of experience leading and mentoring successful engineering teams

- At least 2 years of Java software development. (J2EE, Hibernate, JSP, Servlet, JSF, Web services, Spring)

- Educational Qualification: B.E./B.Tech./MCA/M. Tech

- Experience of full software development lifecycle experience using Agile / DevOps concepts.

- A commitment to delivering releases on schedule.

- Dedication to a collaborative working style and the ability to work well in small teams, both onshore and offshore.

- Thrive on solving problems

- Experience of Test Driven development.

- Source Code Management (BitBucket, GitHub)

- Linux (Windows experience also considered)

- Management and integration to Database & Big Data technology (Hadoop, SQL Server, ORM, JPA2, Hibernate)

- Cloud Technologies (Amazon AWS)

- Enterprise Integration (SOA, WebServices, Rest, Mulesoft, API- s)

- Automation (Chef, Cloud Formation, Puppet)

- Continuous Integration (Jenkins)

- Monitoring Solutions (Zabbix, Cloudwatch)

- Testing (Junit, Selenium, SonarQube)

- Issue, Change and Requirements Management (Jira)

- User Experience & Interface design (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery AJAX)

- Caching frameworks (Infinispan, memcache)

- Messaging (ActiveMQ)

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