Technical Lead

Technical Lead - Java

The purpose of this position is to provide technical leadership, guidance to team and work independently as well to build and integrate robust, fault-tolerant backend services and angular frontend for information processing requirements to payment accuracy products. This includes collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment.

Person in this position would exhibit the following behaviours:

• Provides Technical Leadership and guides the team as needed.
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships with others
• Shares ideas and information
• Assists colleagues unprompted
• Takes pride and leads by example in the achievement of team objectives
• Has credibility with peers and senior managers
• Self-motivated driven to achieve results
• Keeps pace with change – acquires knowledge/skills as the business evolves
• Handles confidential information with sensitivity
• Constantly improves domain knowledge and applies to the project.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Should be able to Lead the design and develop complex systems using design pattens and implement software, data solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts. Behaviour driven and Test-driven development (BDD/TDD) would be preferred.
• Capable to drive and lead the design discussions and actively participate with Technical Product Owners, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineers, architects, agile teams, and operations teams to define plans for each Program Increment and sprints. )
• Take complete ownership of Team goals for the Sprint and help the team to reach the sprint goals by providing technical guidance and mentoring team with best practices.
• Actively participates in the PI planning and formulates the PI Objectives, helps, and guides team understand the objectives & commitments.
• Owns and provides guidance on complex stories ) and completes them in the appropriate sprint.
• Identifies and resolves dependencies and risks involved in completing the stories upfront and shares proactively.
• Participates proactively in the daily stand ups, Sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Follows git flow (Pull requests) and maintains the unit test coverage as well as passes the SonarQube quality gate for the code that is written.
• Communicates technical and operational issues to both engineering and leadership in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all technology standards are adhered to while developing systems.
• Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, Product owners and QA Team to define and ensure the completeness and accuracy of system / technical requirements.
• Working collaboratively with other teams such as infrastructure teams to fulfil the story requirements
• Need to mentor team members as appropriate and proactively support the team for accomplishing the team deliverables.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

Masters or bachelor's in engineering in IT/ Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Systems.

• 10+ years of strong hands-on experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle with Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL, HTML, Javascript/JQuery, CSS, Angular/Typescripts, JSON(RestfulAPI), DevOps implementation knowledge.
• Should be well versed with git version control system, IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ, SQL tools like SQL Developer.
• Should be hands-on working with git flow, pull requests and other version control related concepts.
• Should be hands-on working with Maven build tool, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar scan and security (like Veracode) scan.
• Should be proficient with Junit, Mockito and other Unit testing frameworks and performing code reviews as per the organization standards.
• Should be hands-on in working with tables, triggers, indexes, sequences, constraints, functions, and procedures preferably in Oracle.
• Should have experienced in applications developed using docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift.
• Should have minimal knowledge of JBOSS or any of the EAP.
• Should be proficient in debugging applications, troubleshooting by running from the IDE as well as remote debugging, basic performance testing & tuning.
• Should have minimal knowledge of UX/UI design.
• Should be able to estimate the effort involved in developing a feature/story.
• Should be able to review, guide the other Junior, SEs/SSEs and be able to do code review, integrate the work.
• Should be able to debug front end/javascript code using tools in browser.
• Good To Have:
• Knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or any other agile framework.
• Exposure to business process workflow analysis such as JBPM, experience preferred.
• MogoDB, Microservices, Docker based development/deployments, Unix Internals.
• Exposure to workflow engines such as drools.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and adaptability to rapidly changing priorities and workloads.
• Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.
• Comfort in working with team members that are remote and located in the US, India, or other geographies.

DISCLAIMER:

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of the job change.