TECHNICAL LEAD

Role – Technical Lead
Occupation – Developer Programmer
Entity – Coforge Technologies Pty Ltd
Location – Brisbane
Duration Permanent
Experience – 7+ Years

Role purpose

Implement reusable testing, upgrade and automation patterns across 250+ APIs, enabling faster and safer delivery through AI-assisted engineering, renovate and modern Spring Boot practices.

Key responsibilities

• Implement unit, integration, contract and regression test improvements across the API estate, prioritising services with the greatest delivery, upgrade or operational risk.
• Increase meaningful test coverage by validating success and failure paths, downstream integrations, resilience behavior and API contract compliance.
• Build and apply reusable test utilities, shared libraries, frameworks, templates and reference implementations for Java and Spring Boot APIs.
• Use approved AI-enabled scripts, skills and engineering accelerators to improve development speed, test quality, code review and documentation.
• Implement Renovate onboarding for allocated APIs, including repository configuration, dependency grouping, update schedules, approval rules and automated pull-request validation.
• Diagnose and remediate failed Renovate updates, including dependency conflicts, build failures, test failures and compatibility issues.
• Implement Spring Boot and Java dependency upgrades using approved migration patterns, ensuring upgrades are compatible with shared libraries, API contracts and platform standards.
• Build and maintain automated validation for upgrades, including unit, integration, contract, regression and security tests within CI/CD pipelines.
• Review code, providing actionable feedback on design alignment, API standards, security, test quality, dependency management, resilience and maintainability.
• Identify recurring upgrade and testing issues, then convert proven solutions into reusable remediation patterns, libraries, documentation or automation.
• Prepare and execute production deployments in accordance with release, change-management and operational-readiness requirements.
• Provide warranty support following production releases, including investigation and remediation of defects, failed deployments, regressions and operational issues.

Skills and experience

• Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot development experience in a microservices environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing and testing REST APIs, preferably with OpenAPI and API-first practices.
• Strong experience with unit, integration, contract and automated regression testing.
• Experience improving test coverage while maintaining test quality, speed and reliability.
• Practical experience with Maven or Gradle, Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines and pull-request review.
• Experience with Renovate or similar dependency-management automation is highly desirable.
• Experience delivering Spring Boot and Java upgrades, including dependency remediation and automated validation.
• Knowledge of Kafka, event-driven integration, Kubernetes and cloud-based microservice environments.
• Strong understanding of secure coding, observability, logging, monitoring, resilience and production support.
• Practical use of AI coding assistants for implementation, testing, code review and documentation.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across onshore and offshore delivery teams.