Java & Spring Boot Tech Lead - AWS & Kafka

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in San Antonio, TX seeks a senior technical lead to design and develop enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS. You will define architecture, patterns, coding standards, and best practices while mentoring distributed teams.

You will drive architecture reviews, roadmaps, and delivery plans, ensuring high availability, scalability, and secure integrations with internal and external systems in a cloud-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.
• Define technical architecture, solution patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to development teams.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design walkthroughs.
• Drive technical decision-making and technology roadmaps.
• Design and develop scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build reusable frameworks and shared components.
• Develop REST APIs and event-driven services.
• Implement fault-tolerant and high-availability solutions.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design and implement Kafka-based event streaming solutions.
• Create producers, consumers, and stream-processing applications.
• Define topic strategies, partitioning, retention policies, and message schemas.
• Monitor and optimize Kafka cluster performance.
• Implement asynchronous integration patterns and real-time data processing.
• Design and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Build highly available and scalable cloud solutions.
• Optimize cloud cost, security, and operational efficiency.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Develop secure integration solutions with internal and external systems.
• Implement API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Build integration services using event-based and synchronous communication patterns.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Implement DevSecOps practices.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.
• Improve release quality through automation and monitoring.
• Lead distributed onshore/offshore development teams.
• Estimate project efforts and participate in release planning.
• Track delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, and product owners.
• Support Agile ceremonies and sprint execution.

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in San Antonio, TX seeks a senior technical lead to design and develop enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS. You will define architecture, patterns, coding standards, and best practices while mentoring distributed teams.

You will drive architecture reviews, roadmaps, and delivery plans, ensuring high availability, scalability, and secure integrations with internal and external systems in a cloud-first environment.