Technical Lead
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This role is a Technical Lead for a 12-month contract in Cockeysville, MD, offering expertise in AWS, NodeJS, Kafka, and API development. Insurance domain experience preferred; key skills include CI/CD, agile methodologies, and team leadership.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
528
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🗓️ - Date discovered
September 24, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location type
On-site
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Baltimore, MD
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Security #Terraform #Code Reviews #Leadership #Jenkins #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #API (Application Programming Interface) #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Monitoring #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Agile #Deployment #Cloud #Jira #Statistics #POSTMAN #Swagger
Role description
Role: Technical lead
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Cockeysville MD 21030
Summary: Technical lead for development of back end integration APIs using NodeJS, Kafka, Lambda & EKS
Responsibilities:
1. Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance integrations using AWS, NodeJs, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, Mongo DB etc ensuring best practices in coding and security.
1. Optimize application performance by tuning Node.js server configurations, leveraging caching strategies, and using performance monitoring tools.
1. Oversee the deployment of applications - single page Apps and Lambdas as APIs - to AWS cloud platforms using Jenkins, Urbancode, and Terraform, automating infrastructure provisioning and management.
1. Configure and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Urbancode to ensure smooth and automated deployment processes.
1. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members; ensure code quality through code reviews and adherence to best practices.
1. Write and maintain unit test cases using testing frameworks such as Jest, Postman, Mocha, or Chai to ensure code quality and reliability.
1. Perform analysis, design, write API Specs using OAS/Swagger, development, and configuration functions, defining technical requirements, and resolving complex defects and incidents.
1. Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint demos; collaborate with Product Owners to define and prioritize the product backlog; ensure the team adheres to agile principles and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
1. Utilize JIRA for tracking project progress, managing tasks, maintaining transparency, generating and sharing JIRA statistics and reports to provide insights into team performance, sprint velocity, and project health; ensure accurate and timely updates of JIRA tickets by the team.
1. Gather and report on agreed agile metrics with Client and Client leadership, continually monitoring upcoming risks and dependencies, and steering the team to manage expected outcomes.
Skillset needed:
AWS, Lamda, MERN, Mongo DB, Kafka, Type script and Insurance domain expertise preferred
Role: Technical lead
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Cockeysville MD 21030
Summary: Technical lead for development of back end integration APIs using NodeJS, Kafka, Lambda & EKS
Responsibilities:
1. Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance integrations using AWS, NodeJs, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, Mongo DB etc ensuring best practices in coding and security.
1. Optimize application performance by tuning Node.js server configurations, leveraging caching strategies, and using performance monitoring tools.
1. Oversee the deployment of applications - single page Apps and Lambdas as APIs - to AWS cloud platforms using Jenkins, Urbancode, and Terraform, automating infrastructure provisioning and management.
1. Configure and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Urbancode to ensure smooth and automated deployment processes.
1. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members; ensure code quality through code reviews and adherence to best practices.
1. Write and maintain unit test cases using testing frameworks such as Jest, Postman, Mocha, or Chai to ensure code quality and reliability.
1. Perform analysis, design, write API Specs using OAS/Swagger, development, and configuration functions, defining technical requirements, and resolving complex defects and incidents.
1. Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint demos; collaborate with Product Owners to define and prioritize the product backlog; ensure the team adheres to agile principles and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
1. Utilize JIRA for tracking project progress, managing tasks, maintaining transparency, generating and sharing JIRA statistics and reports to provide insights into team performance, sprint velocity, and project health; ensure accurate and timely updates of JIRA tickets by the team.
1. Gather and report on agreed agile metrics with Client and Client leadership, continually monitoring upcoming risks and dependencies, and steering the team to manage expected outcomes.
Skillset needed:
AWS, Lamda, MERN, Mongo DB, Kafka, Type script and Insurance domain expertise preferred
