Senior Java/AWS Tech Lead

Role: Senior Java/AWS Tech Lead

Location: San Antonio, TX (Onsite)

Duration: 6+ months

ROLE_DESCRIPTION

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and development of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.
• Define technical architecture, solution patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to development teams.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design walkthroughs.
• Drive technical decision-making and technology roadmaps.

Application Development

• Design and develop scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build reusable frameworks and shared components.
• Develop REST APIs and event-driven services.
• Implement fault-tolerant and high-availability solutions.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Kafka & Event-Driven Architecture
• Design and implement Kafka-based event streaming solutions.
• Create producers, consumers, and stream-processing applications.
• Define topic strategies, partitioning, retention policies, and message schemas.
• Monitor and optimize Kafka cluster performance.
• Implement asynchronous integration patterns and real-time data processing.

AWS Cloud Engineering

• Design and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Build highly available and scalable cloud solutions.
• Optimize cloud cost, security, and operational efficiency.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• API & Integration Development
• Design enterprise-grade RESTful APIs.
• Develop secure integration solutions with internal and external systems.
• Implement API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Build integration services using event-based and synchronous communication patterns.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Establish CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Implement DevSecOps practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.
• Improve release quality through automation and monitoring.

Delivery & Team Management

• Lead distributed onshore/offshore development teams.
• Estimate project efforts and participate in release planning.
• Track delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, and product owners.
• Support Agile ceremonies and sprint execution.
• These responsibilities align with the Technical Lead expectations found in enterprise project documentation, including task assignment, deliverable reviews, risk management, project estimation, technical guidance, and cross-team coordination.

SKILLS_REQUIRED

Core Technologies

Java 11/17+

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Security

Spring Cloud

JPA / Hibernate

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams

Confluent Platform

Event-Driven Architecture

Asynchronous Messaging

Cloud Technologies

AWS EC2

AWS ECS / EKS

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

CloudWatch

IAM

Microservices

Microservices Architecture

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Service Discovery

API Gateway Patterns

Distributed Transactions

Resiliency Patterns

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Databases

Oracle

PostgreSQL

API Technologies

REST APIs

OpenAPI / Swagger

JSON

OAuth 2.0

JWT

Monitoring & Observability

Splunk

ELK Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

KEYWORDS

Good knowledge about P&C Insurance