Job Description:Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management
• Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution.
Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting
• Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s).
• Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project.
• Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues.
• During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality.
• Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly.
• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.
• Participate in project review meetings.
• Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modulesQualifications:
Candidate should have 11+ years of experience to lead the design and development of robust web applications using React.js, Java, Springboot, Microservices and Rest API.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of web applications ensuring scalability, high availability, performance and security.
- Understand the requirements, current state architecture of the enterprise and create roadmap for the future enhancements accordingly.
- Define the technical roadmap and architecture for new requirements, including high level decisions about the platform, API design and DB design.
- Develop and maintain architecture documentation including architecture diagram, UML diagrams and design specifications.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, promoting best practices in web application development.
- Collaborate with technical managers, designers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Optimize application performance by implementing caching strategies, load balancing, scaling and other performance optimization techniques.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies and integrate them into the development process where appropriate.
- Work closely with DevOps team to streamline CI/CD deployment processes.
- Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Product Owners and team members to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business goals.
- Implement security measures to protect applications from potential threats and vulnerabilities.
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in React.js, Java, J2EE, Spring boot.
- Extensive hands-on experience with design, development and implementation of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript).
- Extensive experience working with SQL databases.
- Knowledge of AWS services and experience with containerization technologies
- (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools is a plus.
- Knowledge of Git, Jenkins build/deploy application, JIRA and similar tools.
- Prior experience in tools like Splunk, Cloudwatch, Appdynamics, Postman and unit testing is plus.
- Solid experience working in Agile development environment.
- Excellent problem solving, ideation and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with attention to detail.
Act as a technical subject matter expert for the internal team on areas such as system functionality and approach including solving systems operations issues, performance initiatives. Leverage existing knowledge and expertise in multiple ways.
- Build team skills using formal and/or informal training sessions.
- Create and maintain knowledge repositories for lessons learnt and developments in the respective domains.
Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai, Gurgaon
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