Senior Associate Technology, Java Microservices

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.

Please note: This is a contract role for a defined temporal term subject to possible extension. Must be able to go on-site in Irving, TX (no remote).

Job Description

• 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

Qualifications

• 5+ 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

Additional Information

• 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

Contract Details: Expectation for weekly hours for the duration of the contract.

This a full-time contract, please expect to work 40-hours per week for the duration of the contract on-site in Irving, TX.

Pay Range: $60-$90/hour

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual  range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.