Java Architect

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Job description:

As part of the Digital-FS Java team, you will lead the team to deliver projects from the technical deliverable perspective for customers across the globe. You are expected to provide technical expertise and mentor staff in projects primarily based on Java/J2EE or emerging technologies. You will lead client interactions, work on project proposals when needed, take part in technical decisions and discussions with architects, and help in solution architecture on Java technologies or emerging technologies for projects.

The opportunity:

We’re looking for Java Seniors with expertise in Java technologies to join the Advisory Digital-FS Java team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.

Your key responsibilities:

• Need to work as a technical lead in development projects using Java technologies
• Work closely with clients to understand their business, functional, technical, and implementation requirements
• Plan and monitor project deliverables from the team
• Provide key input in technology stack evaluation and assist the architect in terms of technology choices for projects when needed
• Design and govern reusable accelerators, apply design patterns, and reusable technical components (e.g. error handling, logging, etc.)
• Work with relevant teams to ensure timely delivery of projects
• Prepare technical solution and architecture documents, artefacts, work products, and presentations for the customer
• Contribute towards excellence in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
• Lead and mentor development teams
• Work closely with Project Managers, Senior Business Analysts, and development teams
• Take ownership of solution delivery, and be responsible for translating functional requirements into a solution
• Task allocation and performance evaluation of team members
• Communicate with client teams and gather requirements, conduct regular team meetings, and track project progress
• Interview candidates when needed and help in the recruitment process
• Provide an efficient working atmosphere to project teams and ensure objectives are met within stipulated time
• Work with development best practices
• Be flexible in responding to issues as they occur and identify product or deployment improvements to mitigate future occurrences
• Work iteratively in a team with continuous collaboration

People responsibilities:

• Foster teamwork and lead by example
• Ability to travel in accordance with client and other job requirements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Skills and attributes for success:

Primary:

• Java, Spring Boot, and WebFlux
• Java and Spring Boot services, configuration, and production error handling
• Spring WebFlux and the reactive stack (Project Reactor: Mono and Flux)
• Non-blocking request handling, backpressure, and errors in a reactive pipeline
• Reactive APIs for streaming and high-concurrency integration paths
• Oracle JDBC and connection pooling from Spring
• Streaming: Kafka, Confluent Cloud, and OCI Streaming
• Hands-on Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud: topics, producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, and retries
• Hands-on OCI Streaming
• Per-record stream processing
• Batch streaming: consume and process records in batches
• Failure handling: retries, dead-letter or error path, replay, and idempotent processing
• Confluent Schema Registry or Avro message contracts
• Spring Batch
• Hands-on Spring Batch: jobs, steps, readers, processors, and writers
• Chunk processing, restart, skip, and retry
• Launching and monitoring batch jobs
• AWS
• Good working knowledge of AWS for running integration workloads
• IAM, compute, object storage, and logging and monitoring
• Deploying and operating a Spring service on AWS
• SQL and PL/SQL
• Strong SQL: joins, aggregations, transactions, indexes, and execution plans
• PL/SQL: packages, procedures, functions, cursors, bulk processing, and exception handling
• Calling SQL and PL/SQL from a Java service
• Authentication and Spring Security
• OAuth2 client credentials for service-to-service calls
• Spring Security for protecting APIs and outbound clients
• Token request, cache, expiry, and failure handling
• Build and delivery
• Maven or Gradle
• Basic CI/CD: a pipeline that builds, tests, and publishes a Java service
• Docker and running the service in a container

Secondary:

• UI experience using AngularJS/Angular, React, HTML5, Spring Cloud, jQuery, JSON, JavaScript, Servlet, JSTL, AJAX, and CSS will be an added advantage
• Working experience in cloud environments, preferably Azure and AWS
• Knowledge of the CMMI framework
• Working experience of designing and developing solutions in cloud environments, preferably Azure and AWS

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, or a related field
• 10 to 12 years of experience
• Experience in leading teams
• Knowledge of process methodologies – Agile/frameworks like CMMI

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Technical delivery skills

What we look for:

A team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience, and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment.

An opportunity to be a part of a market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 500+ professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.

Opportunities to work with EY Advisory and other service lines globally with leading businesses across a range of industries.

Skills

AWS, Docker, Java, Kafka, PL/SQL, SQL, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Spring Security, WebFlux