Data Architect

SPECTRAFORCE; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm is seeking a Tech Lead for its Retirement Strategies Institutional team in Newark, NJ. This hybrid role involves coding, testing, and debugging applications, with a focus on agile methodologies and excellent problem-solving skills. Ideal candidates will have experience with frameworks like React and SpringBoot, along with strong collaboration abilities. Financial/insurance industry experience is essential for success in this role, which emphasizes continuous learning and innovative technology use.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies.
• Ability to coach others and leverage diverse ideas.

Responsibilities

• Build applications with modern design patterns and standards.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Write unit, integration tests, and functional automation.
• Work on complex problems requiring evaluation of intangible variables.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Agile development

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Continuous learning

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

React

SpringBoot

Node.js

Flask

Django

AWS Core Services

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

Location: Newark, NJ – Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Duration: 6 Months (Temp to Hire)

About Role:

As a Tech Lead on Retirement Strategies Institutional team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to deliver quality platforms and products with speed. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable standards
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact
• Write unit, integration tests, and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input, coach team members, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:

• Frameworks: React, SpringBoot, Node.js, Flask, Django
• Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures.
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
• Automated testing
• Accessibility awareness
• Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
• DevOps Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Domain Driven Development (DDD)
• Design and critical Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a must, not a plus
• Application management/ownership experience is a must, not a plus

Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus [Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc]