The Hackett Group

Team Lead - Java

The Hackett Group India

Business Consulting and Services · 501-1,000 employees

3 h ago
java Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

The lead developer will oversee the modernization of legacy enterprise platforms and provide DevOps governance across the application portfolio. They are responsible for technical design, mentoring the development team, and ensuring secure, scalable engineering practices.

What they look for

Java Spring Boot React AWS PostgreSQL DevOps RESTful APIs CI/CD Bitbucket Pipelines Hibernate JPA Docker System Architecture Technical Leadership Mentoring Observability

Requirements

Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in enterprise application development with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and React. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required, along with proven leadership and technical design capabilities.

Full description

Responsibilities

  • Understand the valuesand vision of the organization
  • Protect the Intellectual Property
  • Adhere to allthe policies and procedures
  • Own application development, modernization support, technical coordination, and delivery governance
  • Guide replacement or modernization of legacy technologies such as Grails/GSP, WAR/Tomcat deployments, ActiveMQ/JMS, Apache Storm, and legacy authentication patterns
  • Design and support Java/Spring Boot services, REST APIs,and event-driven workflows using AWS SQS/SNS, JMS, or equivalent messaging platforms
  • Support React-based front-end development, component architecture, state management, and API integration patterns
  • Oversee Bitbucket Pipelines, deployment coordination, release promotion, and AWS integration across all Product Development applications
  • Establish and maintain cross-application DevOps standards, secure engineering practices, and production observability
  • Guide relational data modeling, ORM usage (JPA/Hibernate), and schema migration practices on PostgreSQL/Aurora
  • Lead technical design, mentor developers, coordinate releases, and ensure secure, maintainable, and scalable engineering practices
  • Support cross-training andtechnical consistency acrossthe development team

Essential Skills

Job

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise application development, with strongJava, Spring Boot, RESTful API, and service-oriented architecture experience
  • Hands-on experience modernizing legacy platforms, including Grails, Groovy, GSPviews, WAR/Tomcat deployments, or similar legacy Java web stacks
  • Strong front-end awareness with React-based single-page applications, component-based architecture, state management, and API integration patterns
  • Experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora, relational data modeling, ORMframeworks such as JPA/Hibernate, and schema migration practices
  • Experience designing and supporting event-driven workflows using messaging platforms such as AWS SQS/SNS, JMS, or equivalent technologies
  • Strong understanding of AWS services, secrets management, CI/CD pipelines, Docker-based development environments, and production observability
  • Hands-on experience with Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines, build automation, deployment orchestration, and release promotion across environments
  • Ability to lead technical design, coordinate releases, and ensure secure, maintainable, and scalable engineering practices

Personal

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of employees and management
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities in managing, mentoring, and guiding development teams
  • Collaborative approach to technical decision-making and cross-team coordination
  • A proactive, ownership-driven approach to modernization, reliability, and engineering quality.

PreferredSkills

Job

  • Experience with ApacheStorm or comparable distributed processing frameworks
  • Familiarity with Sentryor similar observability tooling across front-end and backend services
  • Experience with Flywayor comparable schemamigration tooling
  • Experience with AWS Cognito, OAuth2/JWT, and migration awayfrom mixed or legacy authentication models

Personal

  • Demonstrate proactive thinking
  • Strong interpersonal relations, expert business acumen,and mentoring skills
  • Ability to workunder stringent deadlines and demanding clientconditions

Other Relevant Information

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relatedfield
  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise application development, preferably on SaaS or enterprise platforms
  • Willingness to provideDevOps oversight and cross-training coverage across multiple applications

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