Position Title: Lead Java Developer
Location: Strongsville, OH and Pittsburgh, PA
Ability to work remote: 5 days onsite.
Acceptable time zone(s): EST
Days of the week: M-F 40 hours
Working Hours: M-F 8-5 EST
OT: Yes, possible
Intended length of Assignment: 12/31/2026
Contract to hire W2
Function of the Group/Initiatives/Projects: We are part of a data platform in retail. DSP-COE
Industry background: Finance/Banking a plus, open to other backgrounds
Team Dynamic: Business analysts and testing teams at least nine on team that will be joining, team in GCC offshore and interact with the different businesses.
Roles/Responsibilities:
Must have:
- Multiple years of experience in software development with strong focus on Java / J2EE technologies.
- Proven experience in programming JAVA based microservices, Kafka, Kstreams, Configuration and Optimization.
- Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs.
- Hands-on experience writing queries with Oracle.
- Good understanding of containerization technologies like OCP, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and automated testing tools.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead technical teams.
- Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues and solution development.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging systems like Kafka.
- Exposure to SAFE Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, topics, producers, consumers)
- Experience with Kafka Producers and Consumers using the Kafka Java client
- Distributed Processing Concepts (Just a high level)
- Integration with External Systems
- Connecting Kafka Streams with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Using Kafka Connect for external data integration
- Knowledge of REST APIs and how to expose data from Kafka Streams
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployment, OpenShift
- Using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Logging and tracing using ELK (Elasticsearch) or OpenTelemetry (High level understanding)
- Experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot, Spring Data and reading from databases via APIs
- Monitoring ( Dynatrace) and Optimization, Kafka Streams metrics (through JMX, Grafana, Prometheus)
Must have skills:
Years of experience: at least 8 years Software development
- Expert Java & J2EE
- Kafka & Kafka Streams, Mappers
- Microservices architecture
- Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud)
- REST API development
- Configuration management & performance optimization
- Oracle & SQL
- Container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift/OCP)
- CI/CD & DevOps tooling (pipelines, Git, Jenkins)
- Automated testing tools
Flex Skills:
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- Confluence
Education: Bachelor’s or relevant experience will be considered
Role Differentiator: Growth, Opportunity, modern technologies
Interview Process: Virtual interviews
- 1st with manager, initial screen ~30 minutes
- 2nd round with technical team (panel) ~45min -1 hour
- Possibility to 3rd round if needing further assessment
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