Java Application Architect

Labcorp is a leading global life sciences company that provides comprehensive diagnostic and drug development services to patients, physicians, and healthcare organizations. Our mission is to improve health and improve lives by delivering world-class diagnostic solutions, drug development services, and technologies to advance medicine and improve patient care.

Corporate IT is actively searching for experienced expert-level Java Application Architect who will leverage their technology skills to develop business solutions within the healthcare industry. The Application Architect role will be part of newly formed development teams within Labcorp and contribute to creating and implementing enterprise standards for a web service platform (RESTful APIs).

The applicant will be challenged with cutting-edge technologies to provide a modern framework for Java/Linux-based solutions across virtualized machines, and hybrid cloud platforms (IaaS). As part of this transformational team the applicant will enable new business workflows for the company as well as help to build out a new IT infrastructure. These platforms enable rapid delivery for our IT teams. The prospective candidate will be engaged in a wide variety of work, including but not limited to web applications and web service development, platform development, automation, and coaching/mentoring of teams adopting the platforms. The Application Architect will provide technical leadership in our agile development teams. The role will include dealing with complex business integrations, eliciting requirements, and implementing secure and high-performance services consumed by various devices and applications across the organization. The applicant will drive the evolution of our solutions and ensure that we meet our internal and external clients' software requirements. Most importantly, you'll be engaged in meaningful work for an organization that is committed to "helping people live longer and healthier lives" every day.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development teams to build and deploy micro services-based applications in public cloud with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes

• Provide technical leadership throughout the development life cycle and focus on delivery of quality solutions

• Lead the technical architect and design discussions to propose architecture patterns to enterprise stakeholders, peers and management

• Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, Infrastructure as Code, Data Architecture, Security and clear expertise in one or more of these areas

• Encourage innovation and fail fast mindsets and continuously improve our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.

• Drive a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Keep up to date on latest software development methods, language features and design philosophies to contribute to technology roadmap and manage tech debt work.

• Mentor engineering team members on technical decision making, code reviews and enforcing engineering practices and standards

• Main point of contact and subject matter expert on your product domain.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or foreign equivalent plus ten (10) years of experience as Architect, Technical Lead, User Interface Developer, Consultant, or Software Engineer.

• 10+ year experience and expert knowledge of Java (7+) enterprise development and middleware system integrations.

• 3+ years of architecture and development for building large scale enterprise applications using AWS Cloud services like Lambda, SQS, EC2, ECS and API Gateway

• Hands-on working experience with Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Maven, and other Java development frameworks

• Working experience with Application security using frameworks such as Spring Security, OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect

• In-depth understanding of scalable database design for SQL (e.g. Postgres, Oracle), Stored procedures and NoSQL solutions (e.g., MongoDB, AWS Dynamodb)

• Hands-on experience with messaging oriented platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis Stream IBM MQ and ActiveMQ

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native microservices architectures, principles and patterns

• Strong understanding of container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift

• Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) using tools such as Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Git, Sonar, Jenkins, Jira.

• Hands-on experience with TDD using Junit5 and Mockito

• Experience using Application Performance Management (APM) tools (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace) and Splunk and ELK or Opensearch stack for log aggregation

• Working experience as a multi-skilled professional practicing Agile/SCRUM methodologies.

• Ability to mentor the junior engineers and advocate for engineering standard processes, control code quality

• Strong analytical, communication and team collaboration skills

Location: Durham, NC

Benefits: Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Casual, PRN & Part Time employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan only. For more detailed information, please click here. 

Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

As an EOE/AA employer, Labcorp strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications of the individual and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy or other medical conditions/needs), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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