What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Lead Fullstack Java, AWS position at JSR Tech Consulting?
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Hybrid, 2 - 3 days in Newark, NJ
Payrate: 70 - 90 per hour
Tech Lead in our Individual Product journey in the Retirement Strategies Business Unit, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to help us launch new financial products with a modern architectural approach. You will partner with other technology leaders to brainstorm best design and integration approach for your deliverables and build consensus to implement your proposals. You will also be responsible for managing and guiding other software engineers on your team. You will look at broad deliverables, break them down into actionable building blocks and leveraging resources at hand to complete deliverables within a timeline. You will feel challenged with ensuring your design meets the firmwide systems and modernization strategy. For this, you will need to maintain a broader awareness of firmwide technology strategy, as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to deep technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.
• Develop, maintain and drive modernization of the services and capabilities within your overall scope.
• Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments for your team's deliverables.
• Collaborate with product owners in aligning the roadmap accounting for strengths and opportunities within the technical stack, bringing forward business delivery and knowledge to influence decisions
• Monitor performance, uptime and health of your services
• Go above and beyond by helping setup best practices and lead the way in helping teams in adopting best operational and development practices
• Mentor and coach the technical team on results and timelines, including support with code reviews, domain knowledge and ownership and bring a deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Identify and remove complex technical impediments that may arise within the team
The Skills & Expertise You Bring:
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• 3-7 years of hands-on knowledge and experience with developing applications in Java, Springboot, react or angular
• 3-5 years experience with leading small to mid-sized teams
• Experience with designing and developing financial services applications
• Experience with developing java or python applications in AWS development stack
• Experience with using ECS, containers, Github, Kong / APIGEE and understanding of authentication and authorization enforcement in java services
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Strong executive presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences
• Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills
Hybrid, 2 - 3 days in Newark, NJ
Payrate: 70 - 90 per hour
- Full stack Java / React (JavaScript) lead developer.
- Must have leadership skills, as well as hands on design and development skills.
- Must have strong AWS services skills, having previously implemented AWS based solutions.
- Financial services experience is preferred.
Tech Lead in our Individual Product journey in the Retirement Strategies Business Unit, you will partner with product owners, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to help us launch new financial products with a modern architectural approach. You will partner with other technology leaders to brainstorm best design and integration approach for your deliverables and build consensus to implement your proposals. You will also be responsible for managing and guiding other software engineers on your team. You will look at broad deliverables, break them down into actionable building blocks and leveraging resources at hand to complete deliverables within a timeline. You will feel challenged with ensuring your design meets the firmwide systems and modernization strategy. For this, you will need to maintain a broader awareness of firmwide technology strategy, as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to deep technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.
• Develop, maintain and drive modernization of the services and capabilities within your overall scope.
• Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments for your team's deliverables.
• Collaborate with product owners in aligning the roadmap accounting for strengths and opportunities within the technical stack, bringing forward business delivery and knowledge to influence decisions
• Monitor performance, uptime and health of your services
• Go above and beyond by helping setup best practices and lead the way in helping teams in adopting best operational and development practices
• Mentor and coach the technical team on results and timelines, including support with code reviews, domain knowledge and ownership and bring a deep understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Identify and remove complex technical impediments that may arise within the team
The Skills & Expertise You Bring:
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• 3-7 years of hands-on knowledge and experience with developing applications in Java, Springboot, react or angular
• 3-5 years experience with leading small to mid-sized teams
• Experience with designing and developing financial services applications
• Experience with developing java or python applications in AWS development stack
• Experience with using ECS, containers, Github, Kong / APIGEE and understanding of authentication and authorization enforcement in java services
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Strong executive presence with an ability to translate and communicate sophisticated technical solutions in understandable terms to a broad range of audiences
• Excellent problem solving and collaboration skills