Lead Java Developer

Role: Lead Java Developer
Duration: 12 Months

Location: Orlando, FL (Onsite)

Job Description:
We are looking for a highly skilled Java Technical Lead who can drive end-to-end solution delivery, provide technical leadership, and work closely with clients to define product and technology roadmaps.

The ideal candidate should have preferably 10 years of experience, deep expertise in Java-based enterprise applications, cloud-native architectures, modern development practices, and the ability to influence decision-making at the client level.

Must Have Skills:

• Core Java, Java 8
• Excellent understating and implementation skills for API Services and micro service, REST and SOAP services, along with HTTP caching, API Security & Management techniques used for REST services.
• Cloud computing experience (preferably Google Cloud Platform)
• Event Driven architecture implementation, define strategy, handle product configuration, integration patterns
• Agile methodology

Strong plus:

• Understanding of Hospitality Domain
• Any .NET experience
• Google Cloud Platform (Firestore, PubSub, Google Storage, GAE and GKE)
• Jenkins
• Jira

Soft Skills:

• Excellent client-facing communication (both business and technical).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strategic mindset can influence architecture and roadmap decisions.
• Ability to lead without authority and bring stakeholders together.
• Proactive, ownership-driven, and comfortable challenging the status quo.

Role Requirements:

Lead team:

• Daily connect calls with offshore team to understand any blockers/issues and help to mitigate
• Mentor team so they can accomplish their career goals
• Ensure teams communicate in an appropriate manner with all stakeholders

Agile ceremonies:

• Participate in all Agile ceremonies including:
• Backlog refinement
• Sprint/Kanban planning
• Retro
• Daily standup calls

Assist with POC efforts:

• Help coach and mentor Capgemini resources working on any POC or other work where LSP platform is needed.
• Ensure all stories are understood and executed on
• Resolve blockers where possible

Customer-centric focus:

• Ensure good, concise communication is the norm when interacting with all stakeholders
• Be proactive in attending to application needs.
• Be the first to create a bridge to triage an issue or to discuss a concern
• Be friendly and calm on all calls and guide the team
• Always stay on lookout for any easy wins to ease application pain points

Monitoring and Alerting:

• Leverage Splunk to pull data to triage issues or build new ways to visualize application behavior
• Create Splunk alerts to catch any errors that occur in the environments
• Create Splunk dashboards to provide picture of current state of LSP

Relationship Management:

• Work with external teams to get things done for the LSP team
• Own relationship with PEETI to get infrastructure changes completed or code rolled back
• Own relationship with the NOC team and continue providing more run books so they can take control of them and start helping to triage basic alerts