Sr Java Lead / Architect

Role : Sr Java Lead / Architect (React + Azure)
Location : Phoenix, AZ
Duration : 18 Months Contract

What does a successful Developer/Engineer do :

We're looking for software lead / architect who can work collaboratively and have experience in a range of technologies. These developers should define solution architecture plus have the tenacity and attention to detail to work through complex problems. Our environment consists of modern APIs, micro-services, third-party integrations, and cloud infrastructure. You are tasked with improving/expanding our platform and product. You will accomplish this by developing new features, investing/reproducing/resolving bugs, and creating helpful documentation. Partner with the Infrastructure, Product and Design teams to deliver on an iterative model where application features and server improvements are released every other week.

What you will do :

• Identify technical requirements in product meetings and assist the business team with realistic project planning and feature development; translate product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives
• Own your merchant-facing services /features from development through deployment and production monitoring
• Participate in design/code reviews.
• Partner with the Infrastructure Team to design data models to support large-scale highly available services
• Work with QA to develop test plans/strategies
• Participate in a regular on call rotation

What you will need :

• 10+ years of industry experience
• Strong coding skills; Java is our language of choice & very strong in React UI.
• Experience with cloud migration in Azure along with any of PCF/Openshift/AWS/ Google Cloud
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and non-relational databases likewise Cassandra / YubaByte / DB2 / Oracle / SQL
• Experience with microservices and API design
• Superior problem-solving skills and debugging capabilities
• Knowledge of relational and multidimensional data design and development techniques including star schema, snowflake schema, cube design, ETL and others
• Background in data warehousing concepts, ETL development, data modeling, metadata management and data quality
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar degree, or equivalent experience

What would be great to have:

• Experience in the finance/banking sector
• Ability to design and implement effective analytics solutions and models with Snowflake
• Experience in building distributed, service oriented, microservices-style and cloud-based application architectures
• Experience in automation testing, mock frameworks, virtual services, performance testing and pipeline tools like Jenkins or Concourse
• Experience in containerization with applications deployed on Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience in using CICD tooling such as TFS build pipeline or GitHub
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and/or Agile methodologies