Senior Java Engineer; potential Tech Lead

A world leader in predictive analytics and decision support solutions.

Senior Java Engineer (potential for Tech Lead)
Role

Description:


Engage in a development team engineering applications supporting business objectives. The suite of applications and services will support the functionality globally and enable the company's growing channels / clients.

Responsibilities:

• Design clear and concise REST service interfaces, and create corresponding documentation.

• Build and manage reliable software in a service-oriented environment, have such software operate at high-performance, demonstrated scalability and high reliability.

• Provide technical leadership for the development team at a technical development level.

• Recommend and champion policies, procedures, and standards and ensure their conformance with department and enterprise objectives.

• Engage with and mentor distributed software development teams.

• Provide hands-on mentoring, and coaching of developers.

• Ensure that the quality of the software solutions offered is high, including ensuring proposed software solutions that cost-effectively meet internal customer's objectives.

• Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to business analysts and software developers.

• Effectively resolve production problems in a timely manner by rapidly organizing and deploying the appropriate resources.

• Continuously review problems to determine the root cause in order to prevent them in the future.

• Ensure appropriate disaster recovery procedures are followed and adequately tested on a regular basis.

• Ensure that secure coding practices are thoroughly enforced.

• Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve development goals.

• Ensure alignment between prescribed architecture and the team’s goals and objectives.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong technical background, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

• Ability to deliver simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, utilizing agile development processes and establish skills in designing and developing simple solutions to complex problems.

• Results-oriented, customer-focused with a passion to resolve tough technical and operational challenges.

• Ability to engage in a team of software development engineers and work with senior management, engineering principals, and the product team.

• Effectively help shape the business requirements, bring high quality customer experience to market by owning the development of and operating business critical software services.

• Possess excellent problem solving abilities.

• Inspire internal customer confidence in the technical abilities, service attitude, and business knowledge of the IT department.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.

• A track record of communicating well with executives and non-technical leaders.

Experience:

• Experience (5-7 years) working with Spring Core, Java, and creating REST services & documentation.

• Demonstrated technical ability to create enhancements to primary and supporting websites, web applications and infrastructure.

• Proven experience in software development, maintenance and delivery with application server experience.

• Established track record of successful system and project implementations.

• Effectively translated complex customer requirements, recommended system solutions, and helped formulate detailed specifications.

• Demonstrated ability to document development including database design, application design and ongoing documentation of changes and modifications for complex applications.

• Effectively developed in distributed teams.

• Demonstrated experience with N-tiered applications, multi-tier architecture, and production internet architectures.

• Produced complex design and technical specifications as required for…