Technical Lead/ Application Architect

Position Overview

Our direct client is seeking a Sr. Developer to deliver exceptional support in developing meaningful digital experiences and strengthening customer experience initiatives. The candidate will support digital applications across design, development, production support, and solutioning.

Key Responsibilities

• 5-8+ years of professional software development experience with a strong focus on backend development using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and related open-source frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS, utilizing services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Amazon MQ, MSK (Kafka), CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Proficient in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and serverless application development, with a strong understanding of distributed systems design principles.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and/or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Java fundamentals, JVM internals, concurrency, multithreading, performance optimization, and functional programming concepts such as Lambda Expressions, Streams API, and CompletableFuture.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases including Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and related data modeling and performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of cloud security and application security best practices including IAM, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, and secure API design.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills in large-scale production environments.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, participating in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, or similar technologies to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Desired Skills (Nice to Have)

• Proficiency in Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI/LLM concepts including Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases, Agentic Workflows, and Responsible AI practices.
• AWS, Kubernetes, AI/ML, or other relevant professional certifications.

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