Java Tech Lead – IT

Java Tech Lead

Typical Day in Role:
– Leading team of five developers and working towards the build of GCP pipelines
– Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance using Java and related technologies and GCP
– Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
– Leading various activities in the SDLC (requirement, design, development, testing and implementation)
– Continuous adopting appropriate new technology to meet new requirement for the job
– Use diplomacy, judgment, and persuasion to secure agreement and co-operation from departments involved in a project
– Working with architecture, other upstream and downstream integration teams, other developers in their team, BAs, and QAs
– Primarily back-end integration work, with some UI on the front end (main tech stack is Java)
– Understand key technology aspects such as solution architecture and system integration

Must Have Skills:
• 10+ years’ experience hands-on Java development
• 2-5+ years’ DevOps experience (building pipelines)
• 2+ years’ experience using Google Cloud Platform
• 4+ years’ Spring integration experience
• Strong at relational database, comfortable with using SQL to construct complex queries
• Familiar and experienced with Microservices architecture, including using RESTful API to develop enterprise solution

Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Financial industry experience (corporate actions experience is preferred)
• Agile methodology experience is preferred

Soft Skills:
– Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving capability
– Willing to learn
– Quick learner
– Works independently
– Works well with team and picks up on tasks quickly
– Motivated

Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required