Senior Java Tech Lead - Spring Boot & Open Systems

0101 The Huntington National Bank; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington National Bank seeks a Description Engineer Lead to provide technical leadership for enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and open-system technologies. You will guide scalable, secure, and maintainable full-stack solutions and microservices, aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React, and modern open-system tools, plus mentoring of engineers, collaboration with cross-functional teams,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise application development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and open-system technologies.
• Lead the development of scalable, secure, highly available, and maintainable full-stack applications and microservices.
• Define and drive technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security, engineering standards, and business objectives.
• Lead the design and implementation of RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven services, and distributed applications.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in Java, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern open-system development.
• Evaluate existing applications and lead modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy platforms to open-system, API-driven, cloud-ready architectures.
• Establish and promote software engineering best practices, coding standards, design patterns, reusable components, and development methodologies.
• Review technical designs, application architecture, source code, and implementation approaches to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead technical discussions and provide recommendations on application architecture, frameworks, tools, and technology solutions.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, helping team members improve their technical skills and software engineering practices.
• Partner with architects, product owners, business analysts, DevOps engineers, QA teams, and other technology teams to deliver complex solutions.
• Break down complex business and technical requirements into actionable development tasks and provide technical estimates and implementation strategies.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, performance problems, application defects, and integration challenges.
• Ensure appropriate automated testing, including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing, is incorporated into the development lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, DevOps, automated deployment, infrastructure automation, and observability practices.
• Ensure applications meet enterprise requirements for security, resiliency, performance, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Coordinate technical dependencies across multiple development teams and ensure successful delivery of cross-team initiatives.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement and develop mitigation strategies.
• Communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate opportunities to improve engineering productivity, application architecture, and overall technology capabilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Java

RESTful APIs

React

OO design

SQL databases

Git

Automated testing

Agile/Scrum

Technical design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Cloud

OAuth2

JWT

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

API Gateway

AWS/Azure/Cloud

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Huntington National Bank seeks a Description Engineer Lead to provide technical leadership for enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and open-system technologies. You will guide scalable, secure, and maintainable full-stack solutions and microservices, aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React, and modern open-system tools, plus mentoring of engineers, collaboration with cross-functional teams,