Specialist- Java Developer

at  Publicis Sapient

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Manager/Specialist, Java to lead a team of top-notch technologists. You will work with global agile teams on a range of technologies to develop, test, and deliver products with quality for leading clients in the US. Working alongside other talented minds with strong technical skills, you’ll solve complex business problems to deliver software applications and services that positively impact our clients and their customers.

Your Daily Duties and Impact:

• Help define and prioritize Epics and Stories, grooming Stories functionally and help define the acceptance criteria (Functional and Non-Functional/NFRs) and collaborate with stakeholders to shape end-to-end customer requirements
• Lead the technical grooming, brainstorming, and whiteboarding design sessions to define and articulate the solution approaches, identify tasks and estimates, and design and document sub-system(s) along with interfaces and wireframes
• Bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the sub-system level and question the status quo
• Work with architects and technology managers to define the overall system architecture, standards, and guidelines, helping them with the details of the sub-system specifics
• Proactive about reduction of tech debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using productivity tools and dashboards for monitoring and alerts
• Accountable for sub-system design, development, and deployment, quality with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards
• Resolve problems at an epic level, given the overall business requirements
• Design Sub-systems concentrated on solving business problems; Ensure Implementation is in-line with design and well-integrated with all other dependent sub-systems/systems
• Evangelize adoption of test-first approach and TDD, and apply BDD for Functional and Integration testing; Review Unit and Acceptance Test suites
• Work in the spirit of agile and a product engineering mindset, motivating the sprint outcomes, iteratively and incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• Use SCM like GIT and advocate the relevant branching strategies for code development
• Use Static Analysis and Profiling tools to ensure high code quality and performance
• Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), configuration as code, user manuals to help in the support and training
• Collaborate with global teams using integrated tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Perform peer reviews of system/sub-system, module-level design, and implementation and work with SDE-IIIs to establish coding standards
• Practice DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, deploy and support the implementation from Dev., QA environments to production
• Mentor and guide, regularly evangelize the engineering mindset and culture,
• Share knowledge within peer groups, SDE-Is, ASDEs, while providing and receiving constructive feedback

QUALIFICATIONS

Your Technical Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of strong software development experience with expertise in Java 8 and above. Experience with Multi-threading, Collections, and concurrent API. Knowledge and how to apply the latest Java (9) features
• A breadth of concepts, tools, and technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs
• Thorough experience in writing high-quality code with full automated unit test coverage (Junit, Mockito, etc.)
• Experience in Microservices, 12-factor methodology, and automated integration testing
• Experience in API management, Swagger
• Deep experience in defining and applying design standards, patterns, quality matrix depending on the solutions
• Working experience with data platforms (relational and/or NoSQL) and messaging technologies
• Excellent OOPs, data structure, algorithm knowledge
• Working experience with common UNIX commands and scripts
• Understanding of HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates, SAML, Vaults, Key rotation, OAuth, JWT, MFA, DDOS, etc.
• Experience with containers and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant)
• Experience with distributed, cloud design patterns and architectural styles
• Experience with developing high performance and high scalability enterprise applications using one or more supporting cloud platforms across SaaS and PaaS including Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience practicing infra as code using tools like terraform, cloud-formation, ansible, etc.
• Ability to set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure from grounds-up (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Knowledge of load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching, reverse proxies
• Ability and willingness to learn technologies at pace
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience in one or more front-end development technologies
• Working experience creating high performing applications including profiling and tuning (of those applications to boost performance)
• Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework
• Experience in TDD/BDD
• Experience in Scrum/Agile
• Cloud Certifications at a professional or Architect level

Travel:

• 3 days/week to client’s office in Dallas, TX

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value

• Help define and prioritize Epics and Stories, grooming Stories functionally and help define the acceptance criteria (Functional and Non-Functional/NFRs) and collaborate with stakeholders to shape end-to-end customer requirements
• Lead the technical grooming, brainstorming, and whiteboarding design sessions to define and articulate the solution approaches, identify tasks and estimates, and design and document sub-system(s) along with interfaces and wireframes
• Bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the sub-system level and question the status quo
• Work with architects and technology managers to define the overall system architecture, standards, and guidelines, helping them with the details of the sub-system specifics
• Proactive about reduction of tech debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using productivity tools and dashboards for monitoring and alerts
• Accountable for sub-system design, development, and deployment, quality with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards
• Resolve problems at an epic level, given the overall business requirements
• Design Sub-systems concentrated on solving business problems; Ensure Implementation is in-line with design and well-integrated with all other dependent sub-systems/systems
• Evangelize adoption of test-first approach and TDD, and apply BDD for Functional and Integration testing; Review Unit and Acceptance Test suites
• Work in the spirit of agile and a product engineering mindset, motivating the sprint outcomes, iteratively and incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• Use SCM like GIT and advocate the relevant branching strategies for code development
• Use Static Analysis and Profiling tools to ensure high code quality and performance
• Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), configuration as code, user manuals to help in the support and training
• Collaborate with global teams using integrated tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Perform peer reviews of system/sub-system, module-level design, and implementation and work with SDE-IIIs to establish coding standards
• Practice DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, deploy and support the implementation from Dev., QA environments to production
• Mentor and guide, regularly evangelize the engineering mindset and culture,
• Share knowledge within peer groups, SDE-Is, ASDEs, while providing and receiving constructive feedbac