Senior Spring Boot Lead for Public Sector Platforms

Scrumconnect Limited; Swansea; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on Lead Software Developer to lead engineering on high-volume public services for government clients. You’ll set technical direction, write code with your team, and modernise legacy systems while scaling Spring Boot services.

You will mentor engineers, drive CI/CD, and ensure production resilience using observability tools and modern data access patterns.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and building production systems with Java and Spring Boot.
• Deep knowledge of Spring Data JPA and data access patterns.
• Experience integrating modern services with legacy SOAP/XML systems.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, SQS, SNS, S3) and Terraform.
• Database tuning and high-volume transaction processing.
• Mentoring developers, code reviews, and driving engineering standards.
• Experience in Scrum or Kanban with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical work of agile teams from design to production.
• Set and uphold engineering standards, code reviews, and CI/CD.
• Design Spring Boot services and data access layers with Spring Data JPA.
• Integrate services with legacy SOAP/XML systems using incremental patterns.
• Drive performance, caching, batch jobs, and high-volume processing.
• Collaborate with client architects and product managers to deliver value.
• Maintain client standards and reference architecture.
• Support live services and lead incident response and resilience fixes.
• Mentor developers and share knowledge across teams.
• Contribute to the Scrumconnect engineering community.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Data JPA

SOAP/XML integration

AWS (EKS, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3)

Terraform

CI/CD

Database tuning

Mentoring

Code reviews

Scrum/Kanban

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on Lead Software Developer to lead engineering on high-volume public services for government clients. You’ll set technical direction, write code with your team, and modernise legacy systems while scaling Spring Boot services.

You will mentor engineers, drive CI/CD, and ensure production resilience using observability tools and modern data access patterns.