Principal Programmer​/Technical Lead, IT

Intro

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Why you'll love this job

• ​This job is a member of the Information Technology Team within the Information Technology Division.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership for assigned IT development personnel and be responsible for the technical design and implementation of mid-range software development of the assigned web services and/or applications.
• Key aspects which will differentiate this role are: possessing working knowledge of latest industry best practices and trends within data frameworks and management (e.g. SQL/non-SQL, In-memory Cache, SSD); cloud frameworks, content delivery network design, web services design, rules engine design, and software optimization techniques.

What you'll do

• Works with product management, business analysts, developers, testers and architectural teams to define strategy and requirements
• Develops and drives high-level strategic initiatives and secures commitment from external and internal teams for new initiatives
• Drives consensus on technical approach, sets timelines, and leads cross-functional application teams from design through delivery
• Applies software engineering best industry practices to web applications and services
• Provides technical guidance, direction, and decisions to team developing custom and off-the-shelf web applications and services
• Works with Application/Enterprise Architects to establish development and deployment standards, and ensures adherence to technology platform decisions
• Ensures IT application development process standards and disciplines including solution delivery, project management, work requests, and QA are established, effectively managed and performed.
• Organizes and maintains performance of any application issues in accordance with agreed SLA. Organizes and provides 24x7 production support for the applications

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 8 years of Java Development Environment (JDE) experience
• 2 years Application Programming Interface (ADI) framework / REST development
• 2 years in web services (mid-range) development

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years technical leadership of IT personnel

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Strong experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases including Azure SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services including Azure Event Hub, Azure Service Bus, and Azure SQL, along with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Istio, Hashi Corp Vault, and Ping Federate for identity and access management
• Hands-on experience with Git Hub Actions and ArgoCD (Git Ops) for CI/CD pipeline implementation
• Ensure code quality, security, and maintainability using Sonar Qube, along with enforcing coding standards and best practices
• Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable, high-quality technical designs with a focus on microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Effective collaboration with onshore/offshore teams and maintaining project documentation using Share Point
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Reactive (Web Flux), Spring Cloud Stream, and Spring AI for building scalable, event-driven microservices, with experience in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Graph
  
  QL, and Akamai
• Proficient in building modern UI applications using Angular, NgRx, and RxJS
• Experience designing and…