Lead Engineer - IT

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management

• Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

• Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).
• Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.
• Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.
• During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.
• Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.
• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.
• Participate in project review meetings.
• Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules

Design:

• Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions.
• Ensure that LLD design meets business requirements.
• Submit the LLD design for review.
• Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from team.

Development & Support

• Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the functional specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.
• Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.
• Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.
• Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards.
• Act as the primary reviewer to review the application code created by software engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required.

Testing & Debugging

• Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively.
• Perform impact analysis for issues assigned to self and software engineers.
• Actively assist with project- and code-level problem solving, such as suggesting paths to explore when testing engineers or software engineers encounter a debugging problem, and escalate urgent issues.

Documentation

• Review technical documentation for the code for accuracy, completeness, and usability.
• Document and maintain the reviews conducted and the unit test results.

Process Management

• Adhere to the project and support processes.
• Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.
• Shows responsibility for corporate funds, materials and resources.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC and audits requirements.
• Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications, 
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2/PostGres) 
• BE Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent 
• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JDBC, JMS, React JS 
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices 
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture 

Responsibilities: 

• Acts independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications. 
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle 
• Individual should have a proven delivery track record of on time delivery 
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code 
• Individual must be independent and not require a lot of direction. They should have a positive attitude and be a good team player. 
• Individual should have maturity in assessing the urgency of an issue and understanding proper escalation along with anticipating issues and risks. 
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies. 
• Responsible for conducting software analysis, programming, testing and debugging 
• Provides unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications. 

Qualifications 

• 7+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications with React JS Frontend Knowledge as Full Stack Developer, 
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2/PostGres) 
• BE Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent 
• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JDBC, Servlets/JSP, JMS, and React Frontend Application 
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices 
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture 
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment. 
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required. 
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility. 
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries. 

Core Technical Skills: 

• Java/J2EE Technologies (Basic JSP, JNDI, JMS) 
• Spring MVC/Spring Portlet MVC/ Spring Boot 
• React JS Frontend  
• REST and SOAP Based web services(CXF, AXIS or Spring web REST implementation) 
• WebSphere Portal/Portlets 
• IBatis/SQL/Oracle 
• REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth 
• AWS/ECS 
• Jenkins/CI CD 
• Junit, Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD 
• Git (Pull requests, branching) 
• Markup Languages like XML and JSON 
• Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus 
• Rule Engines Knowledge is a plus.