Java/J2EE Technical Lead/ Team Lead - Application Management Services (AMS)

Title: Java/J2EE Technical Lead/ Team Lead - Application Management Services (AMS)

Location: Bala Cynwd, PA (Remote)

Type: Contract

Position Overview:

• We are seeking an experienced Onsite JAVA/J2EE Technical Lead / Team Lead to lead Application Management Services (AMS) for a Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance environment.
• The role is responsible for providing technical, operational, and delivery leadership across production support, application maintenance, defect resolution, enhancements, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring application stability, availability, performance, security, and adherence to agreed SLAs.
• The Technical Lead will serve as the key liaison between client stakeholders and onsite/offshore delivery teams.
• The role will lead day-to-day L2/L3 support operations, prioritize work, coordinate incident and problem resolution, oversee application enhancements and releases, perform technical and code reviews, mentor team members, and ensure high-quality delivery.
• The ideal candidate will have strong Java/J2EE enterprise application development and production support experience, P&C insurance domain knowledge, application server expertise, and demonstrated experience leading technical teams in Agile and onsite-offshore delivery environments.
• The candidate should also have experience adopting AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and application maintenance.

Position General Duties and Tasks:

• Management Services (AMS) We are seeking an experienced Onsite JAVA/J2EE Technical Lead / Team Lead to lead Application Management Services (AMS) for a Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance environment.
• The role is responsible for providing technical, operational, and delivery leadership across production support, application maintenance, defect resolution, enhancements, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring application stability, availability, performance, security, and adherence to agreed SLAs.The Technical Lead will serve as the key liaison between client stakeholders and onsite/offshore delivery teams.
• The role will lead day-to-day L2/L3 support operations, prioritize work, coordinate incident and problem resolution, oversee application enhancements and releases, perform technical and code reviews, mentor team members, and ensure high-quality delivery.
• The ideal candidate will have strong Java/J2EE enterprise application development and production support experience, P&C insurance domain knowledge, application server expertise, and demonstrated experience leading technical teams in Agile and onsite-offshore delivery environments.
• The candidate should also have experience adopting AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and application maintenance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Onsite Technical Lead and primary technical point of contact for Application Management Services (AMS), providing technical and delivery leadership across onsite and offshore teams.
• Lead Java/J2EE application development, maintenance, enhancements, integrations, and modernization , ensuring solutions follow architecture, security, coding, and engineering best practices.
• Lead and coordinate L2/L3 production support, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, service requests, defects, and production issues in accordance with agreed SLAs.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues, perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA), drive Major Incident resolution, and implement preventive measures to improve application stability and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership for applications running on JBoss/WildFly, Apache Tomcat, and similar Java/J2EE application servers, including deployment, configuration, performance troubleshooting, and JVM-related issues.
• Oversee the complete development lifecycle including technical design, development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production support , ensuring adherence to development and quality standards.
• Lead and support enterprise integrations using REST APIs, SOAP Web Services, middleware, JSON/XML, and related integration technologies.
• Manage end-to-end application releases across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments, coordinating with development, QA, infrastructure, DevOps, release management, and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, work prioritization, and guidance to onsite and offshore development/support teams while driving knowledge sharing and cross-training.
• Act as the key liaison with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, QA, infrastructure, DevOps, and delivery leadership , providing clear communication on delivery status, risks, incidents, releases, and priorities.
• Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools and Generative AI across Java/J2EE development for code generation, code review, refactoring, unit testing, debugging, documentation, and developer productivity while adhering to enterprise security and AI governance policies.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation across application development and production support to improve system reliability, engineering quality, support efficiency, and overall delivery productivity.