Lead Java Consultant

KTek Resourcing; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

KTek Resourcing seeks an FSD Architect to lead end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions. You will work with React, Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS services from design through production support.

Responsibilities include driving architecture reviews, defining boundaries and APIs, and ensuring secure, high-quality code with strong observability and incident readiness. Collaboration with Product/UX is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years applied full stack engineering experience delivering and operating production systems; technical leadership and design ownership.
• Proficiency in React with TypeScript, state management, and responsive UI.
• Extensive Java Spring Boot API design, validation, error handling, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using React, Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS services from design to production support.
• Drives architecture reviews, defines service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns.
• Develops secure, high-quality production-grade code; conducts thorough code reviews; enforces engineering standards.
• Builds scalable services with strong operational excellence: reliability, performance, cost awareness, and maintainability.
• Implements authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2 and token validation.
• Establishes observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) and incident response readiness.
• Evaluates vendor and internal solutions for architecture, security, scalability, and operability.
• Partners with Product and UX to translate requirements into technical plans and milestones.

Skills

Leadership

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

REST

Java Spring Boot

AWS

OIDC/OAuth2

CI/CD

Claude Code/GitHub Copilot

Tools

Terraform

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Neptune

AWS MSK

Docker

ECS/EKS

Job description

FSD Architect role – Client is looking for lead who has leadership and Knowledge in a T Share (deep in Java, Spring Boot AWS, Terraform) and wide range of technologies

Job responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using React, Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS-managed services, from design through production support.
• Drives architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns.
• Develops secure, high-quality, production-grade code; conducts thorough code reviews; sets and enforces engineering standards.
• Builds and maintains highly available and scalable services with strong operational excellence: reliability, performance, cost awareness, and maintainability.
• Implements and governs authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2, token validation, scopes/claims, and service-to-service security patterns.
• Establishes robust observability practices (structured logging, metrics, tracing), incident response readiness (runbooks).
• Evaluates vendor and internal solutions (including architectural fit, security posture, scalability, and operability) and guides adoption decisions.
• Partners with Product and UX to deliver outcomes; translates requirements into technical plans and milestones; proactively manages trade-offs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 8 years applied full stack engineering experience delivering and operating production systems; experience as a senior/lead capacity (technical leadership, design ownership).
• React expertise: modern React patterns, TypeScript, state management, component design systems, performance optimization, and responsive UI development.
• Java Spring Boot expertise: building APIs, dependency injection, validation, error handling, and performance tuning.
• GraphQL proficiency: schema design, resolvers, federation/composition patterns (where applicable), query performance (N+1 mitigation, caching), and API governance/versioning strategy.
• REST proficiency: OpenAPI-style contract design, pagination/filtering, idempotency, backward compatibility, and consumer-driven API evolution.
• OIDC/OAuth2: hands-on implementation with JWTs, refresh/access token flows, scopes/claims, secure session patterns, and least-privilege access control.
• AWS experience (hands-on): designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications; strong understanding of IAM, networking basics, and operational tooling (logs/metrics/alarms).
• AWS Aurora PostgreSQL: advanced SQL, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and transactional design.
• AWS Neptune: gremlin, graph modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations for graph workloads.
• AWS Kafka (MSK): topics/partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution, ordering/at-least-once semantics, idempotency, retries/DLQs, and operational monitoring.
• CI/CD and quality:
• Strong Git practices, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), code quality gates, and release confidence practices (feature flags, progressive rollout where applicable).
• Demonstrated proficiency using Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability (e.g., validating outputs, avoiding sensitive data leakage, and adhering to team standards).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) and deployment automation patterns.
• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, ECS/EKS) depending on platform direction.
• Advanced security practices: threat modeling, OWASP Top 10 mitigation, secrets management, dependency hygiene.
• Experience defining platform standards: API governance, event contracts, service templates, and reliability SLOs/SLIs.
• Prior experience integrating with Oracle HCM.