TECH LEAD

YOUR CONTRIBUTION: 

• The primary role is to work with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the Software Development team to ensure the successful delivery of work products
• Ensure technical quality and delivery of the solution, including innovating and developing new features and functionality
• Ensure the architecture principles, standards and design system are applied
• Manage and advocate the prioritization of technical debts resolution
• Design components and application according to requirements, as well as coordinate and motivate the team while being responsible for the entire project or product
• Define, advocate, and implement best practices and code standards for the team while promoting a collaborative work environment requesting code reviews and feedback from peers
• Enable teams to perform tests and integration tests for the entire system in a reliable, secure, and productive manner
• Identify and mitigate risks, including security risks, write postmortems for critical bugs or outage episodes, and ensure the Incident Management process is followed
• Work continually to increase team productivity and reduce waste on the other end while motivating and encouraging the team to put their best foot forward, especially while under pressure 
• Be aware of all technologies thoroughly, especially those associated with software or application under construction   
• Actively promote a Code Review culture and review the team’s Pull Requests, as well as share the success and failures with the team

YOUR EXPERTISE:

• Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive  
• Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market 

• Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly

• Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.    

  YOUR CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5 years of software development experience with full end-to-end implementations/projects preferred
• Experience working in Java programming and related framework, such as Servlets, Spring, EJBs, JPA, and Hibernate
• Experience working in SQL and NoSQL DBs
• Knowledge of design patterns
• Design and development background in microservices
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant designs
• Solid knowledge of application performance improvement techniques and caching solutions
• Understanding of multithreaded applications and Java internals/Java tuning performance
• Familiarity with Version Control Systems (i.e., SVN/Git), Project/Task Management Systems (i.e., Jira), build servers and continuous integration (i.e., Jenkins), Artifacts Repository Systems (i.e., Nexus), Maven and Ant
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG) is a plus