Lead JAVA with MERN

Description:
The Principal Engineer Application Development will report into the Pricing & Credit Policy team of the Core Lending Systems department.  This is a hands-on individual contributor technical role, working directly with our leadership and development teams to coordinate, plan, develop and implement consistent and repeatable custom development solutions for our applications and technologies.

Job Functions:
Provide application architecture direction and guidance to technology and business partners that starts and ends with a focus on delivering actionable recommendations to peers and leadership, so they can adjust policies, products, projects, and solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes.
Work with a variety of technologies to design and implement application solutions on Distributed Systems, and various on-premises & cloud-native applications with clear concept of 12 factor app, Agile, BDD, Stateless design, APIs, Microservices, Containerization etc.
Provide technical knowledge and experience during the planning, execution, and management of our custom application solutions.
Work with the various teams at the Client on developing integration strategy, best practices & patterns, proof of concepts, as well as identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and resiliency throughout the organization.
Prepare documentation and messaging necessary for technology to communicate strategies and plans to executive management.
Mentor other team members within the organization on integration solutions.
Participate in the development efforts around DevOps, Monitoring, Alerting, KPIs, and Testing as it relates to our integration solutions.
Provide proper guidance to ensure applications are designed, tested, documented, implemented, enhanced, and maintained according to the enterprise standards and expected service quality.
Willingness to learn about new trends and directions in the application development space

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems with higher-level education preferred.
Minimum experience will include 7+ years of performing solution and enterprise design with a focus on custom application development in both a cloud native and on-prem environment
Experience architecting high impact, reliable, applications in a responsive design
Direct, hands on experience in two or more of these integration technologies; Java, React, Node JS, Java Script, SQL, NoSQL (Mongo), Restful API
Direct, hands on experience in enterprise design, application development and process engineering.  Experience with MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway Manager, OpenShift, Azure and AWS native and containerized development
Experience with MERN stack and CI/CD pipeline running on GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, EKS, Terraform, Spinnaker, Istio, Kiali, Prometheus and Grafana is highly desired.
AWS Certified Developer – Associate or equivalent certifications will be a huge plus.
Understanding of integration best practices, patterns, data repositories, infrastructure.
Analytical mindset and ability to grasp complex topics.
Proven involvement in creating or leading complex integration projects.
Must have the following foundational skills: Design, Analysis, Communication, Leadership, Integrations, and Best Practices.
Ability to create and foster relationships within a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Excellent Communication Skills.
Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.