Lead Java Developer

Our client is currently seeking a Lead Java Developer Job Title: Technical Lead - Java & Cloud Development
Location: Phoenix, AZ or Southlake, TX (On-site 4 days per week)
Compensation: $70.00 - $75.00/hr
Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance offered to qualified candidates

About the Role

Our client's Equity Compensation Services team focuses on supporting equity compensation for B2B clients. The primary mission of this role is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites that combines segregated applications into a single, holistic user experience. Fueled by a diverse team of talented professionals, you will balance excellent customer support with sustaining engineering objectives to deliver best-in-class products.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Technical Leadership: Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems.
• Scrum Team Coaching: Guide a scrum team in Java and Cloud Development platforms, encompassing frontend and backend technologies like Spring Boot and PCF.
• Code Quality & Security: Act as the team's security champion by evaluating and resolving vulnerabilities. Ensure deliverables meet strict standards for code quality, reusability, performance, and best coding practices.
• System Design & Architecture: Prepare high-level design, system design, and architecture documentation, and secure approvals from the enterprise architecture team.
• Continuous Integration/Deployment: Configure automated builds and deployments using tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, or Travis CI. Create Bamboo pipelines for CI/CD into PCF environments.
• Team Collaboration: Perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and coordinate workflows with offshore development and testing teams.
• Innovation: Lead development on Proof-of-Concept projects to establish reusable patterns and investigate alternative technologies for architectural review.
• Agile Participation: Actively participate in all agile ceremonies and lead technology solutioning across a large engineering space.

Basic Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software development experience with a Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience developing with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Cloud platforms, REST, microservices, and micro-UI development.
• Proven experience coaching junior and staff-level developers.
• Strong expertise in system design, ranging from mid-scale to enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate proposed architecture and leadership goals into detailed technical design documents and engineering roadmaps.
• Comprehensive experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to design for both functional and non-functional requirements, including availability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• 1-3 years of experience utilizing Atlassian tool suites (Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence).
• Proficiency using IDEs and GIT repositories for code management.
• Bonus Skills: Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and exposure to front-end design/coding with Angular or similar frameworks.

Culture & Professional Characteristics

• Collaboration: Partner with Product Owners, SMEs, and Business Analysts to brainstorm and present technical solutions.
• Strengths-Based Environment: Apply your unique strengths, abilities, and goals to your daily work within a highly supportive, strengths-based corporate culture.
• Leadership: Participate in career-related discussions, receive and provide regular feedback, and contribute to building a formidable engineering team.
• Personal Attributes: High ethical standards, inquisitive, strategic thinker, independent initiative-taker, highly organized, and an effective communicator.

What You Will Learn & Gain

• Unique exposure to the technology teams of a large, industry-leading investment management firm serving individuals, trusts, retirement plans, foundations, and endowments.
• Hands-on experience developing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-scale code.
• Opportunities to research, create, and present on process and technology improvements to technology leadership.