Lead Oracle Intelligent Advisor Developer

Job Type: Contract

Work Mode: Hybrid (2 Days from office)

The Lead IA Developer / DevOps is accountable for the end-to-end technical deliveryand operation of the Intelligent Advisor (IA) service across Oracle Intelligent Advisor,WebLogic, RHEL10, Java integration services, CI/CD pipelines and assuranceobligations. The role provides technical authority, ensures platform stability, governsreleases, manages performance and security, and maintains operational readiness

across all environments, particularly pre-production and production.

Core Responsibilities

• Technical ownership of Oracle Intelligent Advisor (IA) and IA Hub deployments,runtime behaviour, upgrades and fault resolution.
• Leadership of WebLogic domain and cluster operations including AdminServer,Managed Servers, NodeManager, rolling restarts and diagnostics.
• Ownership of RHEL10 VM operations (hardening, SELinux, firewalld, patching,reboots and housekeeping) across all nodes.
• Ownership of Apache HTTPD ingress configuration including routing, healthchecks, drain behaviour, TLS and certificate renewal.
• Oversight of all Java services including IA SOAP connectors, Zendesk Pollerand CSV Poller, covering JVM tuning, resilience and recovery.
• Ownership of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including deploymentsequencing, approvals and rollback strategies.
• Leadership of cross-tier performance and capacity management from ingressthrough application, integration and data layers.
• Accountability for assurance readiness including OWASP-style vulnerabilitymanagement, CIS baseline compliance, GDS expectations and ITHC activities.
• Definition and enforcement of operational standards, post-patch validation andprevention of silent failure modes.
• Acting as the senior technical interface with product owners, delivery managers,architects, security teams and business stakeholders.
• Translating user needs and policy intent into technically viable, operable IAsolutions, balancing delivery pace with long-term sustainability.

Required Technical Skills

IA/Application

• Oracle Intelligent Advisor modelling, deployment and runtime support
• A Hub configuration and operations
• Deep understanding of IA runtime behaviour and failure modes
• Java SE for long-running services and batch processing
• SOAP-based integrations and contract management
• TLS, keystore and truststore configuration
• JVM tuning (heap, GC, streaming and large BLOB handling)
• Resilience patterns including retries, timeouts and idempotency

Platform & Middleware

• Oracle WebLogic domain and cluster management
• Certificate and secret management across the stack

DevOps

• Azure DevOps repositories and CI/CD pipelines
• Multi-component deployment sequencing and rollback
• Secure secret handling using Key Vault or equivalent
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across technical and non-technical
• Ability to lead technical conversations with product owners and policy teams
• Clear communication of technical risks, constraints and options
• Coaching and mentoring of senior developers
• Evidence-based decision making and pragmatic problem solving

Operational & Assurance

• Monitoring, logging and alerting design
• Incident management and disaster recovery
• OWASP, CIS and ITHC remediation workflows

Expected Experience

• Proven technical leadership of mission-critical IA or rules-based digital services

particularly in a government setting

• Experience running production WebLogic estates on Linux
• Track record managing Java integration services at scale
• Demonstrated accountability through security testing and assurance cycles

• Ownership of BAU operations as well as delivery