Team Lead/Sr Software Engineer- Java or Mainframe

Team Lead/Sr Software Engineer- Java or Mainframe

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Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership to team.
• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.
• Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.
• Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.
• Provide status updates to management
• Represent team in program and departmental meetings
• Ensure agile/scrum is effectively implemented in team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4-5 years experience with Java, spring boot framework
• 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practice.
• Experience writing and consuming RESTful APIs
• 1-2 years of experience with mainframe tools and languages including PL/I or COBOL, JCL, DB2
• Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning
• Experience developing solutions using agile methods
• Mentor for the team and department
• Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms
• Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
• Manages own time to meet objectives
• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

Skills-Proficiency Level:

Agile Methodologies - Intermediate
Automation Processes - Intermediate
Cloud Technologies - Intermediate
Code Analysis - Intermediate
Containerization - Intermediate
Continuous Integrations - Intermediate
Continuous Learning - Intermediate
Cross-Functional Partnerships - Basic
Data Solutions - Basic
Deployment Strategies - Intermediate
Engineering Practices - Advanced
Production Monitoring - Basic
Programming Languages - Advanced
Resource Management - Intermediate
Root Cause Analysis - Intermediate
Software Development - Advanced
System Architecture - Intermediate
Systems Architecture Design - Basic
Technical Communication - Basic
Technical Design Documentation - Intermediate
Technical Solution Development - Intermediate
Technology Strategy Development - Basic

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