Description
Productive Edge, Chicago's fastest growing digital consultancy group is hiring a full-time Sr/Lead Java Developer/Architect. Our people are passionately authentic about their love for what they do, and how they do it. At Productive Edge, you will get to shape and create innovative technology to transform our Clients business.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical architecture analysis, design, development, and enhancement.
• Provide process, data and object modeling in a variety of application and database environments.
• Provide database design, development, and enhancement, as well as management and coordination of changes to existing applications.
• Maintain senior level expertise and currency in industry-leading technologies.
• Provide senior level programming as required.

Day to Day responsibilities

• Hands-on involvement with initial POC's for complex or first-time implementation of features/technologies
• Identify learning areas and facilitate/organize knowledge sharing and "lunch and learn" type series
• Understand, explain, build on top of, debug and improve existing DevOps pipelines. This includes guiding teams on best practices for source control management, code organization, etc
• Conduct code reviews
• Continuous evaluation of code (new and old) in terms of performance/scalability (something that was performant last year might not be this year with 100k more users for example)
• Help enforce best practices with regard to microservice architecture and general SOA principles
• Initiate/Lead/Participate in design sessions for new features and produce relevant documentation coming out of those sessions
• Communicate with offshore teams on a daily basis

About Productive Edge
Productive Edge is a Chicago-based leader in digital transformation. As digital business consultants, we focus on digital strategy, customer experience, operations improvement, and product & services enablement. How do we do this? Through launching solutions for Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Automation (IA), Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud Native Solutions. Sounds fun, right? It gets better...and that's where you come in!
Productive Edge offers the dynamic opportunity to use your talents in a progressive, highly-collaborative environment that values innovation and creativity. We are a culture that stays on the cusp of today's developing and emerging technologies. Our passion, ingenuity, and dedication sets us apart from other consultants (as does our modern work atmosphere with fun outings, foosball, stocked fridge and other activities). Because we work with and develop solutions for some of the world's most exciting brands, we are actively searching for individuals who are ready to change the way the world operates.
And if that's not enough, Productive Edge has been featured as one of Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, included in Crain's Fast 50, and is a regular on Inc. 5000.