Java/Springboot Technical Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in San Antonio, TX seeks a Java/Spring Boot Technical Lead to design and deliver enterprise applications using Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, and Kafka in a cloud environment. You will drive architecture, patterns, and best practices while mentoring distributed teams to ensure quality and on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include leading reviews, shaping roadmaps, building scalable microservices, and establishing robust CI/CD and DevSecOps practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise applications using Java/Spring Boot and AWS.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions and engineering best practices.
• Mentor development teams and conduct reviews.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders across offshore/onshore teams.

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 and REST APIs.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Lead distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams and coordinate with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Architecture design

Communication skills

Agile/SDLC

Tools

Java 11/17+

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Security

Spring Cloud

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams

Confluent Platform

AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda)

API Gateway

S3/SQS/SNS

CloudWatch/IAM

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

SonarQube

Oracle

PostgreSQL

REST APIs/OpenAPI

OAuth 2.0/JWT

ELK/Grafana

Job description

Job Description

Java/Springboot Technical Lead

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Core Technologies

• Java 11/17+
• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Security
• Spring Cloud

Messaging & Streaming

• Apache Kafka
• Kafka Streams
• Confluent Platform
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Asynchronous Messaging

Cloud Technologies

• AWS EC2
• AWS ECS / EKS
• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• S3
• SQS
• SNS
• CloudWatch
• IAM

Microservices

• Microservices Architecture
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Service Discovery
• API Gateway Patterns
• Distributed Transactions
• Resiliency Patterns

DevOps

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Ansible
• SonarQube

Databases

• Oracle
• PostgreSQL

API Technologies

• REST APIs
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• JSON
• OAuth 2.0
• JWT

Monitoring & Observability

• ELK Stack
• Grafana

Roles & 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.

Appl ication Development

• 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.

Kafka & Event-Driven Architecture

• 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.

AWS Cloud Engineering

• 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.

API & Integration Development

• Design enterprise-grade RESTful APIs.
• 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.

DevOps & CI/CD

• 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.

Delivery & Team Management

• 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.

Salary Range- $100,000-$110,000 a year