As a technical lead for an agile team, you are responsible for all aspects of application architecture including user interface, APIs, microservices, databases, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Pursue new methods for fulfilling business requirements, including new tools, development strategies, and testing strategies, and evangelize solutions with multiple peers.
Maintain sound understanding of enterprise and program level architecture.
Liaison with business analysts to understand business needs and develop solutions that meet business needs and comply with enterprise and program level architecture and standards.
Work with business analysts and scrum master to create implementation/development plan for new features/applications/solutions by developing epics and stories.
Participate in Agile ceremonies by leading in all technical aspects, including leading the platform demos to the Product Owner and all applicable stakeholders.
Collaborate with the SecDevOps team to onboarding new applications to the cloud-based infrastructure.
Evangelize the developed solution to team members and work with team members to breakup stories into tasks and assist in completion of tasks in timely fashion.
Motivating developers, testers and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
Keep up to date with industry trends and developments.
Delegating tasks and ensuring all daily, sprint and release goals are achieved.
Perform Architecture design and reviews as required, ensuring initiatives are aligned with future state.
Designing solutions in a Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture that will support legacy .NET, Java, and COTS client/server applications.
Identifies risks, opportunities, compliance issues or other architectural concerns.
Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
Develop product teams technical skills through mentoring, coaching, and peer reviews.
Review Cybersecurity Assessments and Static Code Analysis of developed software to define remediation's and improve software quality.
Requirements
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation.
10+ years' overall experience in software development, including hands-on experience with programming, software design patterns, and architecture as a software architect, tech lead, or a senior developer.
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, or JavaScript, and experience with various development frameworks and libraries, such as Angular, Spring, Hibernate.
Familiarity with design patterns, object-oriented programming (OOP), and other software design methodologies to create modular, scalable, and maintainable systems.
Professional experience operating within cross-functional teams and groups.
Knowledge of different software development processes, such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or DevOps, and their implications on architectural decisions.
Expertise in various architectural styles, such as client-server, microservices, event-driven, or layered architectures, and their trade-offs.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and understanding of distributed system concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience designing, implementing, and integrating APIs in a secure and efficient manner.
Familiarity with relational (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, data modeling, and data storage best practices.
Skills in analyzing and optimizing software performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and code optimization techniques.
Awareness of common software security vulnerabilities and strategies to mitigate them, such as input validation, secure coding practices, and encryption.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Ability and desire to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software architecture.
Nice-to-haves
Deep experience in our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, Typescript, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS.
Having served in a technical lead role for one or more product teams.
Optional but beneficial certifications include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
Having contributed to development of enterprise architecture and standards and ability to enforce these standards.
Experience in Continuous integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) as well as SecDevOps processes and tools.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.