Technical Lead

• Provide subject matter expertise on multiple functional areas. In this capacity, be a steward for improving and maintaining the quality of the functional area.
• This includes providing guidance and collaborating with developers, testers, architects, documentation and product managers to realize high quality feature deliverables in these functional areas.
  
• Work on a Scrum Team using Agile principles and methodology; participate in backlog grooming, breaking epics into smaller features, and team Sprint Planning meetings; complete technical spikes as needed on new technologies or designs; assist others with user stories definition
  
• Fix complex bugs, provide solutions, and improve the current system and document the impact areas of the product; identify and document root cause analysis; identify technical debt areas that need to be addressed in the product; diagnose and resolve performance issues with scaling the product
  
• Explore and study new technologies to stay up-to-date with the latest technical changes in the market
  
• Coach team members on design and implementation of features in the product; assist with training sessions and establishing standards and guidelines for development
  
• Responsible for code reviews for multiple teams
  
• Contribute to institutional knowledge through established forums including internal newsletter articles, external blogs, training sessions and study groups. Identify and promote areas of learning within the Engineering team.
• Support and collaborate with partner teams within Zaloni on client engagements.
  
• Assign tasks and guide development for less experienced team members.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelor s or Masters degree in Engineering or foreign equivalent or equivalent experience
  
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience actively developing web and big data applications
  
• Strong knowledge of Java, Maven, Spring and Hibernate with the ability to work independently with these technologies
  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  
• Strong understanding and experience with clean code, software reuse, refactoring, secure coding
  
• Strong experience with API design and implementation
  
• Strong understanding and experience with agile practices
  
• Very good written and oral communication and presentation skills
  
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and specific experience with at least one (1) major cloud platform
  
• Strong understanding of big data technologies including MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, and Hive and good experience with these technologies in the Cloud including EMR, HDInsight, and Google DataProc
  
• Strong understanding of key programming concepts and Java implementation of each, such as data structures, algorithms, OOPS, exception handling, collections, multi-threaded programming, and RDBMS basics.

Desired Skills/Experience

• Globally-distributed teams
  
• Big data development with Spark
  
• Data management platforms and use cases
  
• Persistence patterns, Relational, NoSQL, GraphDB storage
  Microservices patterns, containerization, serverless
• UI development with Angular, CSS, Javascript
  Application and system level testing and automation
  
• High availability, Scalability, Enterprise readiness