Java, Angular and AWS Transformation Leader

Embark on a transformative journey as a Java, Angular and AWS Technical Lead. We are revolutionizing our business applications by modernizing them from legacy Mainframe systems to a cloud-native architecture.

This monumental undertaking will enhance our agility, scalability and ability to innovate. As a pioneering member of our team, you will lead the design and development of these new solutions.

You will be responsible for leading a development team focused on building the modern components of our architecture. You will oversee the technical design, development and deployment of resilient, scalable microservices and user interfaces on AWS, ensuring seamless integration with or replacement of legacy mainframe functionalities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction to a team of Java and Angular developers working on modernization initiatives, promoting best practices in software design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Solution Design & Architecture: Design and architect robust, scalable and secure cloud-native solutions using Java (Spring Boot), Angular and AWS services.
• Development & Implementation: Participate in hands-on development, code reviews and implementation of complex application components, ensuring high-quality maintainable code.
• AWS Expertise: Leverage AWS services effectively to build and deploy applications, designing for cost-optimization, performance and reliability in the cloud.
• Bridging Technologies: Collaborate closely with mainframe technical leads and SMEs to understand legacy system functionalities, data structures and integration points, designing effective interfaces and migration strategies.
• API Strategy: Design, develop and manage RESTful APIs for internal and external consumption, ensuring consistency, security and performance.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Champion and implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for automated builds, testing and deployments within the AWS environment.
• Technical Problem Solving: Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex technical issues spanning front-end, back-end and cloud infrastructure.
• Performance & Security: Ensure applications meet performance, scalability and security requirements, implementing appropriate monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Collaboration & Communication: Effectively communicate technical designs, decisions and challenges to technical teams, architects, project managers and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent extensive practical experience.
• Software Development Experience: 8+ years of hands-on software development experience, with significant expertise in Java Spring Boot.
• Technical Leadership Experience: Proven experience (at least 2+ years) in a technical leadership role, guiding development teams and owning technical design.
• Angular Experience: Strong experience developing modern web applications using Angular.
• AWS Experience: Demonstrable experience designing, building and deploying applications on AWS using core services (compute, storage, database, networking, serverless, containers).
• Microservices Experience: Solid understanding and practical experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API design and development.
• Database Experience: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Build Tools Experience: Experience with build tools (Maven/Gradle), version control (Git), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
• Communication Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Collaboration Skills: Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Mainframe Experience: Direct experience working on a Mainframe modernization project.
• Event-Driven Architecture Experience: Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).
• Containerization Experience: Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS).
• IaC Experience: Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Testing Framework Experience: Experience with automated testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Cypress, etc.).
• AWS Certifications: AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer).
• Agile Experience: Experience working in Agile/Scrum development methodologies.