Senior Engineering Lead ( Java Microservices GCP)Sr Associate director

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Job Description Senior Associate Director Engineering (GCB4)

Profile focus: Strong technology leader with proven system design capability and hands-on Java engineering experience.

Role purpose

Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of resilient cloud-native data platforms and microservices. Youll set technical direction modernize legacy estates and stay close enough to the code to unblock teams and raise engineering qualityespecially in Java/Spring Boot and distributed system design.

Key responsibilities

Technical leadership & architecture

• Own solution architecture for high-performance data pipelines and microservices covering non-functional requirements (resilience scalability latency observability security).
• Define and drive modernization roadmaps (re-platform refactor microservices decomposition) ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
• Establish engineering standards for API design event-driven integration data modelling testing strategy CI/CD and operational readiness.
• manage technical debt with clear prioritization and measurable outcomes.

Hands-on delivery (Java-centric)

• Architect Design and build core services using Java (8) Spring Boot 3 JPA PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS ) and event streaming patterns.
• Lead real-time processing implementations using Apache Flink (and/or Apache Beam) where appropriate.
• Partners with engineers in code reviews pair debugging performance tuning and production incident resolution.
• Build automation for engineering efficiency (scripting tooling testing) leveraging Python where needed.

Cloud data & platform engineering (GCP)

• Drive engineering delivery on GCP: Dataflow Pub/Sub GCS Composer/Airflow BigQuery (and/or ClickHouse) and GKE.
• Own operational excellence for production workloads: monitoring alerting capacity planning reliability improvements and cost optimization.
• Ensure data quality integrity lineage and security controls across pipelines and downstream consumption.

People leadership & stakeholder management

• Coach and mentor engineers across levels; build a culture of craftsmanship accountability and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholderstranslating business outcomes into technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Proactively manage risks dependencies and delivery impediments with clear mitigation and escalation paths.

Required skills & experience

• 15 years in software engineering including significant experience designing and delivering distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Strong hands-on Java experience (recent and demonstrable) with Spring Boot REST/event-driven services ORM (JPA/Hibernate) and SQL performance tuning.
• Proven system design skills: microservices patterns async messaging idempotency consistency models caching rate limiting and failure handling.
• Solid experience delivering cloud-native solutions preferably GCP (or equivalent cloud with ability to translate).
• Strong troubleshooting ability across applications data infrastructure and performance layers.
• Clear communicator; able to align architecture decisions with business priorities and operational constraints.

Desirable / nice to have

• Kubernetes and deployment tooling: GKE Helm CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability: Prometheus Grafana Stackdriver/Cloud Monitoring distributed tracing.
• Security practices in cloud/Kubernetes: secrets management IAM network segmentation secure SDLC.
• Front-end exposure (helpful not essential): React TypeScript.
• MongoDB and polyglot persistence experience.

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