Java Tech Lead

Factory Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of employees and contingent workers to remediate applications with out of support/legacy technologies and/or security vulnerabilities.
• Provide direction to keep team on track to complete projects and ensure project goals are met by assigning tasks to team members and timely follow ups.
• Meet development schedules by ensuring the delivered solutions meet the technical specifications and design requirements.
• Drive/Lead key technical and architectural decisions for the systems provide and influence key designing decisions for the technology infrastructure and configuration of the systems for scalability and capacity.
• Provide proactive advice and feedback throughout the development lifecycle for prevention and early correction of quality problems.
• Train and mentor junior staff / team members
• Employ extensive professional experience and creativity to resolve sophisticated technical problems.
• Contribute to design and code reviews.
• Document lessons learned and help maintain knowledge database.
• Collaboratively work with all other IT Teams to identify Win/Win opportunities and improve efficiency.
• Championing and influencing technology decisions with business partners IT management and Team members on matters concerning multiple sophisticated projects which requires the ability to negotiate while maintaining effective relationships.
• Champion current trends in the industry partnering with Engineering and Architecture Services
• Driving technical solutions in alignment with architectural roadmaps
• Engage with business users application owners and other affected parties in the project inception phase to understand application and define remediation strategy and test strategy.

Essential Skills:

• 8 Years of experience in IT industry with 4 years of technical leadership
• Experience with Java development background and having worked on design optimizations & performance tuning.
• Excellent understanding of typical multitier architectures: web servers caching application servers & load balancers
• Handson experience on multiple technologies such as:
• Java/J2EE & middleware (WebLogic Apache Spring Boot etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell
• Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins GIT Bitbucket Artifactory etc.)
• Relational databases (Sybase DB2 SQL Server Oracle PostgreSQL)
• Information and application security including LDAP certificates public key encryption SSH access credentials etc.
• Good interpersonal relationship building and team working skills.
• Shown ability to communicate optimally with various teams both business and technical to achieve goals.
• Ability to communicate clearly efficiently and persuasively.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Essential Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent