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 Line's 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
Bachelor's 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 company's 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.