Java Microservices Developer

26 Nov 2024

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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Java Microservices Developer for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Irving, TX (remote to start). Responsibilities :

  • Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects. This includes expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation.
  • Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
  • Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
  • Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
  • Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
  • Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
  • Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
  • Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
  • Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.
  • Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
  • Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.
  • Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.
  • Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
  • Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
  • Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
  • Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
  • Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
  • Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
  • Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB. The product definition and technical planning is out of scope.
  • Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
  • Create plans that have a clear path to delivery. Solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts. Help your teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization. Understand engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Accountable for Design Reviews for the firm Agile and POR projects as well as Code Reviews for the NGA projects. Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform. Elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
  • Elaborate, bring and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption.
  • Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
  • Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology. Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding the firm, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
  • The Developer will be responsible for the following on a scrum team:
    • Possesses a high degree of technical competency to design and develop digital applications using cutting-edge tools and technologies
    • Collaborative working with the client's technology and business staff day-to-day
    • Proactive and willing to go above and beyond to satisfy the client and deliver on project goals
    • Codes, tests, debugs, implements, and documents complex global applications
Required Skills :
  • 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role or senior level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expert in one or more areas.
  • Exhibit expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to the firm's internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Akamai)
  • Expertise in one or more of the following languages/frameworks Java SE/EE, Sprint Boot, Angular, HTML, JS, CSS
  • Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and OOP.
  • Experience with Agile SDLC processes
  • Skilled in building distributed systems, CI/CD and Test Driven Development (TDD),
  • Expertise in Java and J2EE
  • Deep understanding of designing for scale
  • Understanding of service design for Cloud environment, specifically micro-services deployed in Cloud Foundry
  • Micro-service design operating within a bounded context
  • Database principles and Data Architecture/Model
  • Multi-thread vs single thread decision and utilization
  • Memory management in programming language
  • Knowledge of Common Frameworks
  • ORM
  • Knowledge of Basic Algorithms and approaches in optimization of algorithm
SGA is a Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) celebrating over thirty years of service to our national client base for both permanent placement and consulting opportunities. For consulting positions, we offer a variety of benefit options including but not limited to health & dental insurance, paid vacation, timely payment via direct deposit. SGA accepts transfers of H1 sponsorship for most contracting roles. We are unable to sponsor for Right-to-Hire, Fulltime, or Government roles. All parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply for all roles. Only those authorized to work for government entities will be considered for government roles. Please inquire about our referral program if you would like to submit a candidate for any of our open or future job opportunities. SGA is an EEO Employer: Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. To view all of our available job postings and/or to learn more about SGA please visit us online at www.sgainc.com .

  • ID: #23501075
  • State: Texas Irving 75014 Irving USA
  • City: Irving
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-26
  • Deadline: 2022-01-24
  • Category: Software/QA/DBA/etc