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strong understanding of IAM, networking basics, and operational tooling (logs/metrics/alarms).• ✔️ Data layer expertise: o 🔸 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL: advanced SQL, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and transactional design. o 🔸 AWS Neptune: gremlin, graph modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations for graph workloads.• ✔️ Event-driven systems: o 🔸 AWS Kafka (MSK): topics/partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution, ordering/at-least-once semantics, idempotency, retries/DLQs, and operational monitoring.• ✔️ CI/CD and quality: o 🔸 Strong Git practices, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), code quality gates, and release confidence practices (feature flags, progressive rollout where applicable).• ✔️ AI-assisted engineering (MUST): o 🔸 Demonstrated proficiency using Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability (e.g., validating outputs, avoiding sensitive data leakage, and adhering to team standards).⭐ Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills• 🌟 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) and deployment automation patterns. • 🌟 Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, ECS/EKS) depending on platform direction. • 🌟 Advanced security practices: threat modeling, OWASP Top 10 mitigation, secrets management, dependency hygiene. • 🌟 Experience defining platform standards: API governance, event contracts, service templates, and reliability SLOs/SLIs. • 🌟 Prior experience integrating with Oracle HCM.","company":"Ktek Resourcing","rawCompany":"ktek resourcing","city":"Wilmington","state":"DE","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-08T07:45:26.537Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Java Technical Lead","description":"🛠️ Job responsibilities• 🔹 Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using React, Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS-managed services, from design through production support. • 🔹 Drives architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns. • 🔹 Develops secure, high-quality, production-grade code; 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