Lead Java developer
Bethesda, MD

Job Description

Job Description:

The Government Health and Safety Solution Operation is seeking a Technical Lead to lead a mid-size team in a software development project for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The position is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

The successful candidate will:

* Lead a team of developers on design and development tasks
* Support the development of a technical roadmap
* Help develop white papers on latest technology, research and software development process, methods and techniques
* Provide system design, software development and technical guidance to the team
* Conduct design reviews and code reviews of tasks performed by other developers in the team
* Foster and mentor a high performing technical team
* Supervise the quality of designs and implementations of the modules and provide recommendations
* Work closely with Project Manager in planning releases, monitoring progress and investigating production issues.
* Assign tasks to other developers in the team and track the progress of those tasks against release schedules.
* Communicate and collaborate extensively with customers and functional team members such as Requirements, Architect, CM and Testing.
* Provide status and other day-to-day communications to the Project Manager
* Provide help desk triage/ production support

The candidate must:

* be a proactive and result oriented team leader;
* have strong design skills;
* be a problem-solver;
* thrive in a fast-paced work environment;
* comfortable working with customers and end-users
* exhibit effective verbal and written communication skills;
* be experienced leading/mentoring a 6-8 person technical team

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other science or technology field. More than ten (10+) years of professional experience as listed below.

Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance is required.

Required Skills

* Java 8 or higher
* Agile Software Development Lifecycle
* Software release management in a Linux environment
* JEE / Servlets
* Spring JDBC
* Spring MVC
* Spring Boot
* PostgreSQL
* JQuery
* Maven
* SQL
* Database Design (e.g. Entity Relationship Diagrams)
* UML
* Object oriented design and development
* Design patterns
* Web Services Development (REST, XML)
* Source Control and CM Tools
* Git experience
* Unit testing - JUnit
* Must have effective oral and written communication skills
* Must be a team player

Desired Skills

* Experience with a BPM tool (BonitaSoft)
* Test Driven Development
* Jira experience
* Tomcat
* Jenkins
* Angular or React
* Messaging systems like Kafka, ESB

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