Sr Java Technical Lead
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)1 day ago
Charlotte, NC, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$147k - $178k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop strategy and roadmaps for application innovation, automation, and end-to-end delivery.
- Analyze business requirements and specifications and configure internally developed and commercial off-the-shelf applications.
- Build, enhance, deploy, maintain, and evolve applications using Java, Spring, microservices, APIs, AWS, and databases.
- Plan application testing, deployment, maintenance, and remediation of programming errors and scope changes.
- Lead process improvements, cost-reduction initiatives, and tool development to simplify and improve software development and support.
- Coach, review, delegate work to, and lead teams of developers delivering scalable applications to production.
- Partner with clients, business stakeholders, IT, and management to align goals, timelines, solution roadmaps, and technical issue support.
- Research emerging technologies and lead structured, risk-aware proof-of-concept initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 8 years of required work experience; 10 years preferred.
- At least 5 years of hands-on Java and Spring programming experience in production environments.
- At least 5 years of experience building microservices and REST APIs using Java and deploying on AWS or in containerized workloads.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, including Oracle or MongoDB.
- Demonstrated ability to lead developers in delivering high-quality, scalable applications to production.
- Preferred experience with frontend development using React or Angular and full-stack delivery.
- Experience researching emerging technologies, leading proof-of-concept initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders, defining roadmaps, leading end-to-end delivery, and owning applications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including a superior retirement program and health, wellness, and work-life offerings.
- Collaborative in-office work environment.
- Opportunities for meaningful learning experiences and development pathways.
- Compensation may include participation in performance-linked incentive programs in addition to base pay.
About Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)
TIAA is a privately held, not-for-profit financial services organization providing retirement plans, annuities, IRAs, mutual funds, life insurance, 529 plans, and brokerage services to employees and institutions in education, healthcare, and the nonprofit sector. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in New York, it also offers investment management through its Nuveen subsidiary. Its revenue comes from fees on asset management, insurance, and brokerage services.