Description

Lead the design and development of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.

Define technical architecture, solution patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices.

Provide technical direction and mentorship to development teams.

Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design walkthroughs.

Drive technical decision-making and technology roadmaps.

Application Development

Design and develop scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot.

Build reusable frameworks and shared components.

Develop REST APIs and event-driven services.

Implement fault-tolerant and high-availability solutions.

Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.

Kafka & Event-Driven Architecture

Design and implement Kafka-based event streaming solutions.

Create producers, consumers, and stream-processing applications.

Define topic strategies, partitioning, retention policies, and message schemas.

Monitor and optimize Kafka cluster performance.

Implement asynchronous integration patterns and real-time data processing.

AWS Cloud Engineering

Design and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS.

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Build highly available and scalable cloud solutions.

Optimize cloud cost, security, and operational efficiency.

Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

API & Integration Development

Design enterprise-grade RESTful APIs.

Develop secure integration solutions with internal and external systems.

Implement API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.

Build integration services using event-based and synchronous communication patterns.

DevOps & CI/CD

Establish CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.

Implement DevSecOps practices.

Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.

Improve release quality through automation and monitoring.

Delivery & Team Management

Lead distributed onshore/offshore development teams.

Estimate project efforts and participate in release planning.

Track delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.

Coordinate with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, and product owners.

Support Agile ceremonies and sprint execution.

These responsibilities align with the Technical Lead expectations found in enterprise project documentation, including task assignment, deliverable reviews, risk management, project estimation, technical guidance, and cross-team coordination."

SKILLS_REQUIRED

"Core Technologies

Java 11/17+

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Security

Spring Cloud

JPA / Hibernate

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams

Confluent Platform

Event-Driven Architecture

Asynchronous Messaging

Cloud Technologies

AWS EC2

AWS ECS / EKS

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

CloudWatch

IAM

Microservices

Microservices Architecture

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Service Discovery

API Gateway Patterns

Distributed Transactions

Resiliency Patterns

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Databases

Oracle

PostgreSQL

API Technologies

REST APIs

OpenAPI / Swagger

JSON

OAuth 2.0

JWT

Monitoring & Observability

Splunk

ELK Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree