Lead Developer Java

Job Title: Lead Developer Java

Location: Chicago, IL

Skills/Attributes: Agile, DevOps, Java, Kafka, Oracle, Spring Boot

Position Description:
The client is seeking a Lead Backend Java Developer. This role involves leading and coordinating a team of developers on data integration projects, ensuring best practices in coding and architecture. The candidate must have strong experience in Java server-side development, Spring modules, SOA, and data integration using technologies like Spring Batch and Kafka. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders, including architects, business analysts, and project managers. Familiarity with the financial industry and strong communication skills are essential, as well as the ability to work within multiple development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Plan and lead development projects including estimating work effort, understanding cross-project dependencies, resource planning, and infrastructure planning.
2. Plan and lead development projects including those with strategic architecture, design, and complex implementation.
3. Strong communication skills to report status and translate technical concepts/issues to senior management.
4. Monitoring of code quality, project documentation, end-user documentation, and education.
5. Coordinate with testing leads to consult on the creation of testing strategies.
6. Coordinate with release management to plan and prepare testing environments and data seeding on a project-by-project basis.
7. Participate in team reviews of design artifacts and code, make changes as required, and recommend alternative solutions where appropriate.
8. Use multiple software development methodologies and standards as defined by the organization to effectively code and deliver systems.
9. Follow established processes for configuration and release management to ensure that all project artifacts are managed, integrated, and versioned according to standards.
10. Prepare presentations of design approaches and participate in architecture reviews.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

1. Excellent Java server-side design, coding, and code management.
2. Experience with tuning and refactoring code and assessing the impact of architectural decisions on performance and scalability.
3. Experience with Service Oriented Architecture concepts and patterns including: microservices, service bus, service gateway implementations.
4. Experience with Spring modules: MVC, Aspects, Security, Data, Core, Boot.
5. Experience with JavaScript and/or Node.js.
6. Ability to navigate and manage JIRA tickets and Agile boards.
7. Familiarity with data architectures, data governance, data management concepts.
8. Ability to understand logical and physical data model concepts.
9. Ability to write a variety of database queries on a variety of database platforms (SQL, SPARQL, XQuery, etc.).

Job Type: Contract

Work Location: On the road