Middleware Engineer jobs in Trenton, NJ

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with client facing teams to understand solution context and contribute in technical requirement gathering and analysis; 
• Design and implement technical features leveraging best practices for technology stack being used; 
• Work with technical architects on the team to validate design and implementation approach; 
• Write production-ready code that is easily testable, understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors; 
• Ensure highest quality of deliverables by following architecture/design guidelines, coding best practices, periodic design/code reviews and performing code/script reviews of senior engineers in the team; 
• Write unit tests as well as higher level tests to handle expected edge cases and errors gracefully, as well as happy paths; 
• Participate in scrum calls and agile ceremonies, and effectively communicate work progress, issues and dependencies; 
• Research & evaluate the latest technologies through rapid learning, conducting proof-of-concepts and creating prototype solutions; 
• Break down large features into estimable tasks, leads estimation and can defend them with clients; 
• Implement complex features with limited guidance from the engineering lead. For example: service or application-wide change; 
• Debug code issues / bugs using stack traces, logs, monitoring tools, and other resources; 
• Mentor and groom technical talent within the team; 

What you’ll bring: 

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer science or related major required; 
• Minimum 5 relevant industry experience with Big data - Hive, Spark, Hadoop.
• Ability to leverage deep technical expertise and architectural experience to design and implement robust solutions that meet clients objectives.
• Develop and maintain technical architectures.
• Lead data engineering efforts to enable effective data analysis and reporting, leveraging your expertise with platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake
• Strong in at least one of the Programming languages – Python or Java, Scala, etc. and Programming basics – Data Structures,
• Serve as the trusted advisor to clients, providing technical guidance, insights, technical architecture/roadmap translations to help achieve the client business objective.
• Collaborate closely with clients to understand their challenges/goals and deliver compelling presentations and effectively communicate technical concepts.
• Hands on experience in building metadata driven, reusable design patterns for data pipeline, orchestration, ingestion patterns (batch, real time); 
• Experience in designing and implementation of solution on distributed computing and cloud services platform (but not limited to) - AWS, Azure, GCP; 
• Utilize expertise in middleware technologies such as Mulesoft or Appian to design, develop, and deploy integration solutions.

Additional Skills: 

• Ability to quickly adapt new technology and be innovative in creating solutions; 
• Ability to independently run POCs on new technologies and document findings to share;  
• Knowledge of data modeling and data warehouse concepts; 
• Travel to other global offices as needed to work with client or other internal project teams