Senior Associate Java Engineer- L1 (FS, hybrid)

Job Description

Publicis Sapient- Financial Services team is looking for a Senior Associate Java Engineer L1 to lead a team of top-notch technologists. You will work with global agile teams on a range of technologies to develop, test, and deliver products with quality for leading clients in the US. Working alongside other talented minds with strong technical skills, you'll solve complex business problems to deliver software applications and services that positively impact our clients and their customers.

Your Daily Duties and Impact:

• Help define and prioritize Epics and Stories, grooming Stories functionally, and help define the acceptance criteria (Functional and Non-Functional/NFRs) and collaborate with stakeholders to shape end-to-end customer requirements
• Lead the technical grooming, brainstorming, and whiteboarding design sessions to define and articulate the solution approaches, identify tasks and estimates, and design and document sub-system(s) along with interfaces and wireframes
• Bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the sub-system level and question the status quo
• Work with architects and technology managers to define the overall system architecture, standards, and guidelines, helping them with the details of the sub-system specifics
• Proactive about reduction of tech debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using productivity tools and dashboards for monitoring and alerts
• Accountable for sub-system design, development, and deployment, quality with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards
• Resolve problems at an epic level, given the overall business requirements
• Design Sub-systems concentrated on solving business problems; Ensure Implementation is in line with design and well-integrated with all other dependent sub-systems/systems
• Evangelize adoption of test-first approach and TDD, and apply BDD for Functional and Integration testing; Review Unit and Acceptance Test suites
• Work in the spirit of agile and a product engineering mindset, motivating the sprint outcomes, iteratively and incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• Use SCM like GIT and advocate the relevant branching strategies for code development
• Use Static Analysis and Profiling tools to ensure high code quality and performance
• Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), configuration as code, user manuals to help in the support and training
• Collaborate with global teams using integrated tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Perform peer reviews of system/sub-system, module-level design, and implementation and work with SDE-Is to establish coding standards
• Practice DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, deploy, and support the implementation from Dev., QA environments to production
• Mentor and guide, regularly evangelize the engineering mindset and culture,
• Share knowledge within peer groups, SDE-Is, and ASDEs, while providing and receiving constructive feedback

Qualifications

Must-Haves:

• Only Dallas-based candidates are preferred
• Flexible to travel to Client offices in Dallas 3days per week- HYBRID role

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3+ years of strong software development experience with expertise in Java 8 and above. Exp with Multi-threading, Collections, and concurrent API
• Knowledge and how to apply the latest Java (9) features
• A breadth of concepts, tools, and technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs
• Thorough exp in writing high-quality code with full automated unit test coverage (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Exp in Microservices, 12-factor methodology, and automated integration testing
• Experience in API management, Swagger
• Deep exp in defining and applying design standards, patterns, quality matrix depending on the solutions
• Working exp with data platforms (relational and/or NoSQL) and messaging technologies
• Excellent OOPs, data structure, algorithm knowledge
• Working exp with common UNIX commands and scripts
• Understanding of HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates, SAML, Vaults, Key rotation, OAuth, JWT, MFA, DDOS, etc.
• Exp with containers and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant)
• Exp with distributed, cloud design patterns and architectural styles
• Exp with developing high-performance and high-scalability enterprise applications using one or more supporting cloud platforms across SaaS and PaaS including Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Exp practicing infra as code using tools like terraform, cloud-formation, ansible, etc.
• Ability to set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure from grounds-up (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Knowledge of load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching, reverse proxies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Nice to Have:

• Exp in one or more front-end development technologies
• Working exp creating high-performing applications including profiling and tuning (of those applications to boost performance)
• Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework
• Exp in TDD/BDD
• Exp in Scrum/Agile
• Cloud Certifications at a professional or Architect level

Additional Information

Job Level: Senior Associate Technology Level 1

Annual Pay Range (in USD): $96,000 - $120,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. The actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and the specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits include:

• Flexible vacation policy
• Unlimited PTO's
• Bonus Plan
• 15 company paid holidays annually
• Work Your World program
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401 (k)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Company Description

As a Digital Business Transformation partner of choice at Publicis Sapient, we've spent nearly three decades utilizing the disruptive power of technology and ingenuity to help digitally enable our client's businesses in their pursuit of the next. Our 20,000+ people in 53 offices worldwide combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses by designing the products and services their customers truly value. In the space between next and now is how. And we believe that how you seize that space is everything. We've been named a LEADER in Gen AI

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