Agile Engineer

Hybrid Onsite Every Other Week in Westlake, TX Our client seeks an Agile Engineer to help deliver a global, service-oriented equity compensation platform. The role will lead design and development of RESTful services and APIs, guide agile execution, and ensure scalable architecture on a Java stack. The engineer will split time across Java back-end API development and heavy Oracle SQL and PL/SQL work, including views, stored procedures, and performance tuning. Collaboration with business and technology partners will be required to advance a multi-year roadmap for Stock Plan Services. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $65.00 to $74.00/hr. w2 Responsibilities • Champion creation and maintenance of high-quality service documentation. • Write clear technical specifications from complex business requirements. • Coordinate multiple development work streams and ensure scalable, extensible architecture. • Define, maintain, and support the development environment and adopt industry best practices. • Ensure effective code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing. • Coordinate delivery of technical components across internal and external teams. • Partner with business stakeholders to evaluate current systems and plan future development. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members. • Design and build Java 17 Spring Boot REST APIs that integrate with multiple databases. • Develop and optimize Oracle SQL, PL/SQL views, packages, procedures, functions, and triggers. • Perform performance tuning for queries and stored procedures handling large data volumes. • Contribute to CI/CD, containerization, and cloud deployment practices. Experience Requirements • 6+ years of Java EE or Java 17 development with Spring framework and REST APIs. • 5-8 years of hands-on software development with strong Oracle experience. • Expert-level SQL and Oracle PL/SQL, including views, packages, procedures, triggers, and performance tuning. • Experience in data migrations and debugging database performance. • Agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, and TDD. • Microservices concepts and API design using JAX-RS and REST/JSON. • DevOps practices for SCM, CI, monitoring, and deployments. Hands-on with Git/GitHub and gitflow. Experience with Jenkins and UDeploy. • Containerization with Docker. Familiarity with Kubernetes. • Exposure to AWS or Azure. AWS console experience preferred. • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. • Familiarity with Kafka, MSSQL, and observability tools like DataDog. • Client-side test frameworks familiarity such as Jasmine and Karma. • Investment or financial services experience preferred, ideally in equity compensation. Education Requirements • Bachelor's degree or higher.