Senior Software EngineerVisa status: U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply.
Tax Terms: W2, 1099 Corp-Corp or 3rd Parties: Yes Location: Schaumburg, IL (must be on site M-Th, remote Fridays) Duration: 6 month contract to hire (must convert without sponsorship requirements) Visa: USC or GC Required Skills:Hands-on development experience with Azure Cloud (APIM, AKS, NSG, CosmosDB, Azure Search, Message Hub, Networking & Security concepts, etc)Experience leading teams from a monolithic to microservice architecture (understanding what needs to be defined and strategy that needs to be in place)Understanding & alignment of the devops conceptHands-on experience with CI/CD automation including terraform, Jenkins, maven, etcExperience with testing automation frameworksHands-on experience with Microservice architecture concepts and codingUnderstanding of API/Dev Portal, API discovery concepts - API creation and consumptionBasic knowledge of relational, graphDB and noSQL databases; hands on experience with a relational and noSQL database(s)Understanding of security concepts including API GatewayUnderstanding of Kafka messaging and streaming, hands-on preferred..Java/Springboot/application architecture & development experienceLogging/analytics platforms such as Splunk experience,GitHubSwaggerElasticsearch (nice to have)GraphQL (nice to have)NodeJS (nice to have)Technical Lead/Architecture position for at least 5 yearsUnderstanding of IAC (Terraform preferred)Interpersonal Skills:MUST HAVE GREAT COMMUNICATION SKILLSAbility to work with other peopleAbility to create technical documentationAbility to mentor and train-up teamsBackground revamping and defining parameters to define "good" development practicesAbility to analyze a problem and produce pros & cons/recommendation documentationChange agent and ability to adapt to new and different ways of doing thingsAbility to lead collaboration and communicate effectivelyAbility to quickly learn something new (technology/concept) and master it.Open to new ideasSelf-starter and likes to keep busy