IT Software Engineer 5

• Location: Chicago, Illinois
• Type: Contract
• Job #107359

Job Title : IT Software Engineer 5
Location : Chicago, IL
Job Type: W2 Contract
Expected hours per week: 40 hours per week
Schedule: Hybrid
Pay Range: $83-95 per hour
Job Description:
Position's Contributions to Work Group :
• Provides technical leadership and delivery ownership for a team of software engineers building and operating scalable cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Drives architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and solution design across Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch platforms, CI/CD, observability and AWS infrastructure.
• Collaborates with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions while mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and ensuring successful execution of business objectives.
Typical task breakdown:
• Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications.
• Establishes technical direction and architectural standards.
• Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices.
• Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Interaction with team :
• Mentors' engineers and develop technical talent.
• Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals.
Education & Experience Required:
• Bachelor's degree is a must
• 10+ years' experience in this capacity with 5+ years in a lead role.

Required Technical Skills
• Java (latest would be ideal) , Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, AWS (ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager), OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, Observability, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, SQL/NoSQL databases, Event-Driven Architecture, API Integration, Performance Optimization, and AI-assisted Development Tools.
Soft Skills
• Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and coaching, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, ownership, conflict resolution, adaptability, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams while driving successful delivery of complex cloud-native solutions.

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