Technical Lead Engineer Platforms

The JD North America Platform team powers the growth of JD and our Community Brands through building and delivering industry-leading connected customer and associate experiences across surfaces. We support and encourage everyone on our team to take an active role in driving innovation in technology behind the products and experiences we build and are looking for candidates with a clear bias-to-action that bring an experienced solution-oriented perspective to our team.

As a Technical Lead on the Platform team you will be a leader in the solution planning delivery and maintenance of tools and technologies that enable the whole IT organization. This position works alongside a talented group of Engineers Scrum Masters Product Managers Designers and Testers in a fast-paced environment to deliver capabilities (such as tooling for development CI / CD observability and Generative AI) that enable product teams to deliver high-quality applications to our customers.

The Technical Lead is a champion for researching training and implementing new technologies and approaches and sharing the results across the wider delivery team. Through various forums the Technical Lead will play a key role in evangelizing best practices and standards to maintain our technology landscape to modern standards especially as those standards change over time in an evolving IT industry. The Technical lead will work to encourage DevOps principles in a you build it you run it mindset and deliver capabilities that enable application teams and reinforce this model.

This individual will effectively exhibit JD Finish Lines core values of Customer People Winning Community and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following main duties :

Key Responsibilities and Tasks-

Supporting our EPIC Platform with Cloud-native microservice applications Apache Kafka Spring Boot Java Kotlin MongoDB Postgres Docker Kubernetes and React

Implementing CI / CD observability and other DevOps practices surrounding this platform leveraging technologies such as Jenkins Spinnaker Prometheus Grafana and Mimir

Helping other engineers to learn and adopt these technologies and techniques

Innovating driving and defining high impact technology that creates solutions that positively impacts project delivery.

Evangelizing and implementing engineering and testing best practices across the company (code reviews SCM conventions tools etc)

Required Computer and / or Technical Skills-

Should have intermediate to advanced knowledge and abilities with open-source and industry standard DevOps-enabling tools. Experience in a retail environment is preferred. These applications include :

7 years experience with Java Kotlin and / or Python

Strong experience with development in Spring framework

Strong experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Experience with developing RESTful services / APIs using JSON and / or XML

Experience with messaging technologies such as MQ JMS RabbitMQ ActiveMQ experience with Apache Kafka is a plus

Experience with building batch and streaming data pipelines is a plus

Thorough understanding of Domain-driven and event-driven microservice architectures

Understanding of containerized application development with Docker and experience with Kubernetes

Experience with cloud infrastructure and platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP. GCP is preferred

Experience with front end development (HTML CSS Javascript). Experience with client-side frameworks such as React Vue or Angular.

Knowledge of build scripting tools such as Gradle Ant Maven Gulp and Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins Spinnaker and Artifactory.

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principles and tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi.

Experience with CDNs such as Akamai is a plus.

Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail clean code automated testing peer review.

Demonstrated success leading others engineers providing technical direction and leadership

Strong collaboration and team-building skills. Ability to influence mentor and develop skills in other technologists.

Strong ability to communicate and collaborate with other software architects and engineers

Strong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies to help the IT organization be more effective

Required Education and / or Experience-

Bachelors degree (B.A.) in Computer Science or IT related field from a four-year college or university. At least 7-10 years experience 7 years in J2EE or JAVA or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands-

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sit for more than 6 hours per shift

Use hands to finger handle and feel

Reach with hands and arms

Talk and / or hear

Walk or move from one location to another

Occasionally may need to climb balance stoop kneel or crouch

Lift and / or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally

Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the companys policies is required for the position.

Average work week is 40-50 hours which can vary depending on business need.

The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

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This job description is not intended to cover all aspects duties and / or responsibilities required of employees. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary or permanent basis per company policy. The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice.

EEO Statement :

The Finish Line Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to complying with all federal state and local EEO laws. The Finish Line Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on race or color religion or creed national origin alienage or citizenship status marital status sex pregnancy status age military status disability or any other characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line Inc. provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws including for disabilities pregnancy and religious practices.

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Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1