TEKsystems · 15 hours ago
Middleware Staff Engineer
Wilmington, DE
Contract
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$62.50/hr - $74.50/hr
8+ years expTEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, and they are seeking a Middleware Staff Engineer to lead complex technical projects. This role involves providing technical direction, developing reusable patterns, and collaborating with various teams to drive modernization efforts and ensure operational excellence.
Information Technology
Responsibilities
Establishes and instantiates engineering standards, patterns, and best practices within the Enterprise Content Management and Middleware teams and across other infrastructure teams
Learns and assesses current-state platforms to develop target state architectures and roadmaps for modernization
Stays abreast of vendor roadmaps and makes recommendations for including new features into target state architectures and roadmaps
Influences buy-in and change through problem breakdown, business cases, data gathering and analysis, and sound judgment
Partners with leaders, peers, centralized and subsidiary groups to create transparency of current state, future state, challenges, expected timelines and risks
Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture to align solutions with strategic direction
Sets technical direction for application engineering teams, providing expertise in modern integration, automation, containerization, cloud, and DevOps practices
Effectively leads the evaluation, design, and implementation of key projects within the Middleware team and across other infrastructure teams
Mentors and coaches other engineers, fostering growth in autonomy, critical thinking, problem solving, and technical maturity
Leads code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical assessments
Identifies and solves difficult and challenging technical problems, often beyond the capability of others on the team
Performs comprehensive reviews on system changes
Ensures reliability, performance, scalability, and security of application platforms
Guides and validates proper monitoring and observability of applications and infrastructure
Develops and maintains technical and process documentation
Partners with business/application stakeholders to identify and understand problems/opportunities and translate requirements into technical solutions
Communicates complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Participates in cross-functional initiatives and represents application engineering in enterprise projects
Promotes innovation and challenges the status quo
Identifies and addresses technical debt, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation
Stays current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices
Qualification
Required
8+ years' progressive engineering experience designing/developing/engineering solutions and leading multiple large scale and/or cross-domain initiatives
4+ years' application development experience using object-oriented design, decoupled architecture, middleware, messaging, API development, and monitoring tools using Java, .NET, and/or different JavaScript libraries and frameworks
3+ years' experience using authentication, certificate, keys, secure parameters, and code scanning tools within applications and application development processes
2+ years' experience with multiple scripting languages (SQL, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, Go, Ruby, etc.)
2+ years' experience working on public cloud platforms and architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP)
2+ years working with third-party application, middleware, and/or infrastructure services
Ability to thrive and produce results with little or no supervision in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to interact seamlessly at different organizational levels with both technical and business stakeholders across the company
Ability to describe complex problems (technical or organizational) concisely, accompanied by thoughtfully proposed solutions
Strong customer service focus and sense of urgency
Ability to quickly adapt and learn modern technologies, methods, tools, and systems
Uses advanced techniques, approaches, and processes to complete and influence work
Superior problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to create an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration
Ability to look at the 'big picture' and see opportunities for improvement
Ability to break opportunities for improvement into bite-sized chunks that can be pursued on a project-by-project basis
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Preferred
2+ years' experience as an Infrastructure, Systems, Integration, Software, or Solutions Architect
3+ years' experience using modern DevOps and deployment practices and tools (e.g., pipelines, A/B testing/deployment, Canary deployments, Configuration as Code (CaC), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), etc.)
2+ years' experience using IBM platforms and tools (e.g., IBM FileNet, IBM BAW, IBM ODM, IBM MQ, IBM WebSphere)
2+ years' experience using Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, and/or other container orchestration environments/tools
2+ years using Agile development methodologies
2+ years' experience with Tomcat/Apache or other web application runtime environment
Work history in financial services or insurance industries
Benefits
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Company
TEKsystems
At TEKsystems, they understand people. Every year they deploy over 80,000 IT professionals at 6,000 client sites across North America,
10001+ employees
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