The role:

Holland & Barrett International is striving to be the world's leading health and wellness business. Currently the largest in Europe and growing in other markets, the health and wellness of our colleagues and customers is at our heart.

We're on a mission to make health and wellness a way of life for everyone - and technology is at the heart of our future plans to become a leading omni-channel retailer. We're building some great products, and we're investing in the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals. We're delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalization in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online.

We are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to join our Supply Chain department, within our Inventory Management Squad squad. This squad is central to the Supply Chain transformation the company is undertaken, critical in providing the real time view of where our stock is and facilitating the movement of inventory so that the right products are in the right location at the right time.

• Collaborating with the team, and leading on the implementation of new features to our internal heavy systems, improving processes between
  purchasing to supplier
• Contribute and give suggestions to the ongoing build of our bespoke tools to allow better functionality. Bring your ideas to make us better.
• Analyse requirements, question requirements and never settle down until satisfied - when you're ready, lets go.
• Bring passion to the role, to grow and stay ahead with new technologies.
• Contribute learnings to our wider stack, allowing the implementation of new features developing our growing code base.
• Engineer and implement better automated processes to eradicate manual steps, delivering improved performance company wide
• Lead from the front, be vocal and constructive - we are a growing organization, things can change - we need someone who is prepared to grow with us
• We strive to be the best at what we do, sharing best practice and self- development are a must here, get involved and develop eachother
• Collaborate with the wider development community in the team to implement microservice architecture
• Develop using TDD and peer review in a CI/CD culture, with strong support for iterative development cycles, with evolutionary design
• Continue to focus on the implementation of software using modern
  patterns of software development, for functionality and scalability

Key requirements:

• Ideally 5+ years working with Java (up to date with the latest versions)
• Experienced with using Spring Boot
• Proven experience working with unity and integration testing, working in microservices, APIs
• Event Driven architecture experience ideally using Kafka
• RESTful services and APIs
• Strong technical skills
• Solid understanding of Structured Query Language (SQL) and the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API

What we offer:

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so weoffer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

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Head office - London

33 Cavendish Square, London, United Kingdom, W1G 0PW

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