*Details:* *Job title: Java Developer/Team Lead *
*Location: Jersey City, NJ and Chicago, **Illinois* *Duration: 6 months* *Interview: F2F* *Job description:* Our Client, a Jersey City insurance giant, is looking for a Java Developer/Team Lead. –Team lead who is hands-on but has some architecture exp, (but not a hands-off architect): Experience working with Spring Core, Java, and creating REST services & documentation. MUST have good comm. Insurance is a plus but not mandatory. *A Day in the Life* - Lead a development team in developing applications supporting business objectives. The suite of applications and services will support the functionality globally and enable growing channels / clients. - Design clear and concise REST service interfaces, and create corresponding documentation. - Effectively lead a team of developers in the design, development, test, and deployment of component-based applications in a web/internet delivery environment. - Build and manage reliable software in a service-oriented environment, have such software operate at high-performance, demonstrated scalability and high reliability. - Provide technical leadership to and create policies for the development team at both a project management and technical development level. - Develop and implement policies, procedures, and standards and ensure their conformance with department and enterprise objectives. - Engage and manage distributed software development teams. - Provide hands-on management, mentoring, and coaching of developers. Ensure that the quality of the software solutions offered is high, including ensuring proposed software solutions that cost-effectively meet internal customer's objectives. - Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to business analysts and software developers. - Effectively resolve production problems in a timely manner by rapidly organizing and deploying the appropriate resources. - Continuously review problems to determine the root cause in order to prevent them in the future. - Ensure appropriate disaster recovery procedures are in place and adequately tested on a regular basis. - Ensure that secure coding practices are developed and thoroughly enforced. - Manage and negotiate with vendors and consultants. - Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion. - Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve development goals. - Ensure alignment between prescribed architecture and the team’s goals and objectives. *What You Bring to the Team* - Strong technical background, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. - Ability to deliver simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, utilizing agile development processes and establish skills in designing and developing simple solutions to complex problems. Results-oriented, customer-focused with a passion to resolve tough technical and operational challenges. - Ability to lead a team of software development engineers and work with senior management, engineering principals, and the product team. Effectively help shape the business requirements, bring high quality customer experience to market by owning the development of and operating business critical software services. - Possess excellent problem solving abilities. - Inspire internal customer confidence in the technical abilities, service attitude, and business knowledge of the IT department. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. - A track record of communicating well with executives and non-technical leaders. - Experience working with Spring Core, Java, and creating REST services & documentation. - Effectively defined development project scope, goals, timeline, deliverables, and post-project measurements that supported company goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. - Demonstrated technical ability to create enhancements to primary and supporting websites, web applications and infrastructure. - Proven experience in software development, maintenance and delivery with application server experience. - Established track record of successful system and project implementations. - Effectively translated complex customer requirements, recommended system solutions, and helped formulate detailed specifications. - Demonstrated ability to document development including database design, application design and ongoing documentation of changes and modifications for complex applications. - Effectively developed in distributed teams. - Demonstrated experience with N-tiered applications, multi-tier architecture, and production internet architectures. - Produced complex design and technical specifications as required for technical documentation. - Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to continuously changing technology. ------------ Warm Regards, *Anil Kumar* *Software Technology Inc.,* 100 Overlook Center , Suite 200, Princeton, NJ 08540 *Tel:* (609) 232-8702 ||* Fax:* (866) 608-6686 *E-mail:* anil.ku...@stiorg.com||*Web: *www.stiorg.com This is not an unsolicited mail. 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