Java Tech Lead

Role- Java Tech Lead
Rate- $70/hr on C2C
Work Auth- USC or GC
Client- Kroger
Location - Remote EST or CST.
Technical Lead:

• Complete code reviews. Ensure that Kroger standards are being adhered to. Ensure that education/code improvements are completed as part of the code review process and share within the team.
• Follow defined branching strategies.
• Act as a mentor to the dev team to ensure continuous growth of the team.
• Assist the dev team with more complex troubleshooting / debugging needs.
• Provide technical direction/architectural interpretation for the dev team.
• Act as technical expert in discovery events by providing technical direction/architectural input.
• Understand architectural vision from Kroger engineering and communicate that vision with the Consultant team.
• Ensure consistency and alignment of developers' technical decisions.
• Act as primary technical point of contact to minimize noise and distractions on the Consultant team - primary point person.
• Represent team in tech talks and ensure learnings/communications are funneled to the developers.
• Accountable for their assigned gitlab code repositories and maintaining them in support of the branching strategy, dev branch updates, and pull requests.
• Collaborate with Kroger to ensure clarity is gained on business ask/requirements.
• Collaborate with Kroger architecture team to ensure clarity is gained on the overarching solution/design.
• Lead technical conversations for planning events.
• Act as the technical liaison for technical questions.

Tech Lead: someone who has "been there and done that" providing tech guidance to the team and will also need to be able to step in and be hands on a good portion of the time too.
Tech stack:

• Java
• Spring
• SQL/DB2? CapacheCassandra (NoSQL)
• Angular (Would want them to have working knowledge, high level knowledge not super hands on
• Kafka
• On Prem Kubernetes and Docker Containerization, eventually in Azure
• Visualizations and PowerBI