Fifth Third – Technical Lead - Java, AWS & DevOps

Technical lead

Java/J2EE, AWS cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code

This position is ideal for a self-driven engineer who can independently troubleshoot complex issues, contribute to continuous improvement, and thrive in a fast-paced Agile environment, with opportunities to work on modern cloud architectures and DevOps practices.

• Design, develop, and implement new features and enhancements to meet evolving business needs.

• Deliver DevOps support via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and automated deployments.

• Handle highpriority production incidents endtoend, ensuring quick rootcause analysis and resolution.

• Identify, track, and resolve critical vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with security standards.

• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation within Confluence for implementations, updates, and ongoing support activities.

• Coordinate weekly release and deployment cycles, ensuring successful rollouts and rollback plans.

• Engage in daily collaboration with onsite stakeholders and participate in the 3rdlevel oncall support rotation as required.

• Minimum 5 years of handson software engineering experience.

• Mastery in Java/J2EE, unit testing, and CI/CDbased deployment practices.

• Strong experience with Spring Boot and Gradle dependency/build management.

• Strong understanding of software design patterns and the ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Indepth understanding of designing, constructing, and consuming APIs and web services.

• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, API Gateway, Lambda, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, S3, RDS/Aurora and other cloudnative services supporting scalable distributed systems

• Handson with AWS Cloud services and CLI tools including Linux/Unix/AIX/AWS CLI.

• Strong experience with static code analysis and vulnerability scanning tools, including Checkmarx and SonarQube.

• Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch monitoring tools.

• Experience integrating onprem or hybrid systems with AWS.

• Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC technologies.

• Handson experience with GitHub for source code management, branching strategies, and collaboration.

• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, automated build & deployment workflows).

• Exposure to security and compliance best practices.

• Ability to diagnose complex technical and accessibility issues.

• Ability to independently resolve production incidents with minimal guidance.

• Must be able to clearly articulate ideas in both verbal and written form to product owners, agile teams, and technical stakeholders, adapting communication style to suit each group.

• Ability to learn quickly and work with complex systems.

• Experience working in Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban)

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent.