JAVA Lead with middleware and UNIX exp

Factory Tech Lead

Technical Leadership:

• Lead a team of employees and contingent workers to remediate applications with out of support/legacy technologies and/or security vulnerabilities.
• Provide direction to keep team on track to complete projects and ensure project goals are met by assigning tasks to team members and timely follow ups.
• Meet development schedules by ensuring the delivered solutions meet the technical specifications and design requirements.
• Drive/Lead key technical and architectural decisions for the systems, provide and influence key designing decisions for the technology, infrastructure and configuration of the systems for scalability and capacity.

Application Remediation:

• Provide proactive advice and feedback throughout the development lifecycle for prevention and early correction of quality problems.
• Train and mentor junior staff / team members
• Employ extensive professional experience and creativity to resolve sophisticated technical problems.
• Contribute to design and code reviews.
• Document lessons learned and help maintain knowledge database.

Technology/Business Partnership:

• Collaboratively work with all other IT Teams to identify Win/Win opportunities and improve efficiency.
• Championing and influencing technology decisions with business partners, IT management and Team members on matters concerning multiple sophisticated projects which requires the ability to negotiate while maintaining effective relationships.
• Champion current trends in the industry partnering with Engineering and Architecture Services
• Driving technical solutions in alignment with architectural roadmaps
• Engage with business users, application owners and other affected parties in the project inception phase to understand application and define remediation strategy and test strategy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
• 8+ Years of experience in IT industry with 4 years of technical leadership
• Experience with Java development background and having worked on design, optimizations & performance tuning.
• Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers
• Hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as:
• Java/J2EE & middleware (WebLogic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell
• Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.)
• Relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Good interpersonal, relationship building and team working skills.
• Shown ability to communicate optimally with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.
• Ability to communicate clearly, efficiently and persuasively.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.