Java Full Stack Tech Lead - KeyCorp : Job Details

Time left to apply End Date: April 25, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

Job requisition id R-30900

Location: 4910 Tiedeman Road - Brooklyn, Ohio 44144

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in leadership capacity while also remaining hands-on with technical challenges.

• Own, oversee, and drive the strategy of the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Drive and architect the overall health, performance, availability, and resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Serve as the deep technical expert on the team; own training program for junior engineers and mentor as the go-to resource on the team.
• Evaluate and make decisions on new technologies and how they fit into the product solutions.
• Display outward thinking, develop strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies and demonstrate the viability; own recommended technologies, maintain budget constraints, and ensure communication and awareness of implemented technology.
• Create, review, and approve technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts with Sr Engineers.
• Recommend standards and best practices across the entire bank for technology.
• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines and articulate reasoning and trade-offs for choices to business owners.
• Deep understanding of the business; drive, formulate and design complex solutions to anticipate and meet business needs.
• Develop architecture diagrams, detailed design diagrams, interfaces working with all the dependent technical teams.
• Lead a team of developers to design, develop and deploy robust, scalable and secure software solutions in compliance with enterprise standards.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers to foster growth and ensure best practices are followed.
• Lead end-to-end development from User interface to server-side logic to database management for all applications under the squad.
• Hands-on development, root cause analysis, defect analysis as needed.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to development standards and improve team skills.
• Apply and proactively prepare to ensure proper security standards for code development.
• Provide direction and recommendations on solutions for security vulnerabilities if uncovered, and represent Security variances in Security Technology review meetings.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to ensure system scalability, reliability, availability.
• Independently develop and set best practices for developing clean, maintainable, testable code; perform code reviews for all levels of engineer and drive high standards for code quality, testing and documentation.
• Provide recommendations for tools and develop plans and strategies to improve overall hygiene for code development, delivery and release practices.
• Develop a culture of modern software development practices.
• Own the applications and operational system tasks associated with the applications.
• Ensure seamless communication between development teams and other departments such as QA, Enterprise Architecture etc.
• Stay up to date with latest trends in full stack development continuously researching and evaluating new technologies that can improve applications.

• Experienced and adept at troubleshooting and debugging.
• Must understand and have implemented core development principles.
• Experience working with RESTful API design, SOAP services and microservices architecture.
• Proficient in front end development using React JS, Angular, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, ES6.
• Relational Database experience (SQL, Oracle).
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, code management (Bitbucket, GitLab), CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure.
• Utilized code review tools such as SonarQube.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Cypress, Mocha etc.
• Knowledge of Siebel CRM web services is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Driven leader with ability to mentor and motivate team members and foster positive and productive team culture (This is a critical skill for the role in addition to technical expertise).
• Experience working in agile development environment (Kanban, Scrum).

• 8+ years in full stack software development with hands-on experience with front end (React, Angular), backend technologies (Java, Node.js) and web service integrations.
• 5+ years of experience with databases such as Oracle, SQL.
• 2+ years of experience in a tech lead role demonstrating leadership and team management skills.
• 5+ years of experience in banking/finance industry.

• Bachelor's degree with computer science or equivalent.

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $95,000 to $120,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

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KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected category.

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