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