Lead Software Engineer

Location: Bernards, NJ Description: Our client, a leading healthcare organization, is currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their existing team

• Hands-on leadership for a scrum team.
• Provide guidance on technical implementations across the delivery teams
• Leading the teams on Proof of Technology projects
• Technical solution analysis and recommendations, including effort & timeline estimates
• Framework development
• Significant hands-on coding
• Mentoring other team members

• 8+ years Data Engineering stack experience
• 3+ years Java stack experience, microservices
• 3+ years Kafka streaming experience
• 2+ years of experience implementing complex, large-scale architectures in a flexible environment
• 3+ yrs experience in agile environment
• Plus to have experience managing production systems (Ops support, improvement, stabilization etc)
• 2+ years of direct leadership experience (including duties such as performance reviews, productivity reviews, metrics reporting etc)
• Data engineering skills (Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Kafka Streaming)

• Past experience in design and implementation of high volume data platforms
• Strong technical skills in data engineering space (Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Kafka streaming, DataBricks, noSQL DBs etc) and Java stack programming
• Experience leading a team, coaching/mentoring jr developers
• Health care experience is a Plus
• Strong knowledge and experience in agile
• Exceptional problem solving skills and design thinking