Lead Java Developer

Job Title:
Lead AI & Java Microservices Engineer/Senior Developer

Location: Irving, TX (Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months

***Working Model: Fully in Office- Must be in the office 5 x week

• Looking for Prompt engineering, Github copilot, AI LLM/SLM building and fine tuning.
• Core API development using AI skills.
• The role should be able to use AI capabilities to improve code development speed and quality.

Responsibility:

• You will be responsible for design and development of medium to highly complex systems in NSA architecture.
• We are looking for a Java microservices developer lead to join our team and support the NSA architecture implementation.
• Works closely with other IT and business partners to deliver NSA, MARVEL and OMNI deliverables.
• Manages computer systems in a business environment and is responsible for resolving technical issues.
• Knowledgeable in programming, data structures, computer systems, and software engineering.
• Ensures system reliability and scalability.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or other related field. Ability to manage multiple assignments.
• Superior written and oral communication skills.
• Delivering an integrated roadmap on the maintenance and development of the NSA platform.
• Collaborating with GTS and business stakeholders to implement business requirements.
• Working closely with business owners and other subject matter experts on requirements gathering and design.
• Implementing Agile practices on all project/development work.
• Ensuring system reliability, scalability and conformance to best security practices.
• Working on the development and delivery of high quality tested code working closely with a team of other developers across multiple locations and time zones.
• Driving the consolidation of tools and automation of performance results and data.
• Working closely with the Quality Assurance team to ensure code quality and working on timely delivery of fixes for any defects.
• Being responsible and accountable for the details of end to end system flows, architecture and development of complex ecommerce systems supporting sales and service flows and transactions.
• Finding creative solutions, making timely decisions, developing, providing LOE's, supervising junior members and keeping the project on track. Lead medium to large size projects using both offshore and onshore resources and providing guidance to junior staff members.
• Working with offshore development resources from the VZI Team.
• Working with internal teams and Vendors on providing technical direction on solutions for various interfaces and API's for both internal and external systems.
• Leading a development team and is a technical SME for the ecommerce system.
• Knowledge of Spring boot framework and its various modules.
• Experience with REST services with various methods like GET, POST, PUT using JSON structures.
• Experience with setting up, configuring, and managing API proxies to enhance API functionality, security, and performance.
• Knowledge of service oriented multi-tier applications.
• Knowledge of our Wireless products and services.

You'll need to have (Must-Have):

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience in Java 8 reactive programming.
• Experience with PNO layer and Cassandra DB.
• Experience in Microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes containerization, EKS, Spring boot framework for systems Integration, ToClientat or Netty and GraphQL.
• Experience in DevOps Tools - GIT, Jenkins. JIRA, Ansible, Test Driven development (e.g., JUnit, Selenium, Sonar, Kibana, Grafana).
• Experience in designing, developing, and troubleshooting API proxies.