Java Tech Lead / Architect

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Hands-on technical lead, leading the team and contributing to the architecture, design, development, testing, monitoring and support activities.
• Be a part of a Scrum team working on API and microservices development using open-source technologies like Java, SpringBoot etc
• Coach, mentor and support developers on the team to unblock issues and deliver on all stories on time and with quality.
• Work with other stakeholders within the organization to build the right architecture and design for all applications and services.
• Establish a strong culture of security awareness and ownership to establish the DevSecOps practices within API Dev Lifecycle
• Lead API development and integrations, working with other developers, architects, and product owners.
• Build consistent reusable & secure APIs and microservices following all enterprise standards and best practices.
• Develop code that is highly scalable and has consistent performance even with high load on the application.
• Establish a strong culture of security awareness and ownership to establish the DevSecOps practices within API Dev Lifecycle
• Ensure that the API based architecture enables for best-in-class user experience and response time.

Requirements:
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in IT, including a minimum of 8 years in API and microservices development, using leading methodologies and processes.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as a technical lead, leading a scrum team of 5+ developers
• 8+ years of experience in Java Backend Development and skills with Spring Framework, Springboot and gradle.
• Experience building frameworks and process automation for simplifying developer expeirence
• 6+ years’ experience working in Agile/Scrum model. Should be able to play the Scrum Master role for the team when required
• 5+ years’ experience working in cloud (preferably AWS) and familiar with cloud services.
• Experience building applications and services from scratch and setting up standards & best practices for APIs and microservices.
• Strong Experience with integrations with databases (SQL and NoSQL), SFTP servers, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs and other systems and platforms.
• Strong skills and expertise in unit testing frameworks like Junit
• Experience integrating with Messaging platforms like IBM MQ and NATS
• Experience with architecture, design, development, deployment, testing, and integration of enterprise-wide applications.
• Experience with a wide variety of continuous integration and source control tools.
• Experience with designing API proxies and REST APIs using API Management platform.
• Knowledge of API security including OIDC and OAuth2.0 concept
• Experience designing API specifications in RAML/YAML/Swagger
• Understand the fundamentals of DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines and ability to review troubleshoot pipeline issues and collaborate with DevOps team.