Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud, Java & Platform Leadership

Korn Ferry Group; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is seeking a Sr Staff Engineer for a contract role in a hybrid environment across Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; Wilmington, DE; or Irving, TX. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong Java expertise, and hands-on leadership of distributed systems.

Responsibilities include leading platform retirements, migrating workloads to modern stacks such as Spring Boot/Open Liberty, and applying Agile and cloud best practices to deliver reliable production

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership of teams responsible for production systems.
• Experience leading platform retirement or major migration end-to-end without business disruption.
• Deep Java expertise with exposure to Java EE app servers and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams owning production systems and ensure high availability.
• Oversee end-to-end platform retirement or major migration projects.
• Manage and maintain distributed systems across environments.
• Learn new technologies quickly and apply best practices and patterns.
• Utilize Agile, iterative delivery and cloud computing approaches.

Skills

Tech Lead Experience

JAVA

Typescript

OpenShift

AWS

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Korn Ferry is seeking a Sr Staff Engineer for a contract role in a hybrid environment across Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; Wilmington, DE; or Irving, TX. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong Java expertise, and hands-on leadership of distributed systems.

Responsibilities include leading platform retirements, migrating workloads to modern stacks such as Spring Boot/Open Liberty, and applying Agile and cloud best practices to deliver reliable production