Lead Analyst-Java Technical Lead

Position Description:

Company Profile:
Founded in 1976 CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94000 consultants and professionals across the globe CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at .

Position: Lead Analyst-Java Technical Lead
Experience: 8-10 years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift Timing: General Shift
Location: Chennai
Position ID: J0126-1359
Employment Type: Full Time

Education Qualification: Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 7 years of relevant experience.

Were looking for a Java Technical Lead with 810 years of strong hands-on experience in designing developing and leading the delivery of high-performing scalable enterprise-grade applications.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in core Java Spring / Spring Boot and relational databases along with proven experience in technical leadership architecture design and team mentoring.

You will work in an Agile product development environment owning technical solutions end to end from architecture and design to deployment and production support while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Lead the overall technical design and architecture of Java-based applications and microservices.
Define and enforce coding standards architectural guidelines and best practices.
Design develop and maintain complex and business-critical Java components.
Review and approve technical designs code and solution approaches.
Guide the team through the full SDLC following Agile methodologies.
Mentor and support senior and junior developers.
Ensure performance scalability security and reliability of applications.
Collaborate with Product Owners QA DevOps and stakeholders.
Follow SDLC version control and release management practices using GitLab and JIRA.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical and production issues.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity code quality and delivery timelines.
Guide the team in using AI tools for code reviews refactoring unit test generation and defect analysis while ensuring adherence to CGI and client governance standards.
Use AI-supported insights to identify performance bottlenecks technical debt and optimization opportunities.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Must-Have Skills:
Programming Languages:
Java (Java 8)
SQL / PL-SQL
Python (good to have)

Core Java & Enterprise:
Strong understanding of Java internals JVM memory management
OOPs concepts and GoF design patterns
Multithreading and concurrency

Frameworks & Libraries:
Spring Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Data JPA
Hibernate / JPA
Spring Security (OAuth2 JWT good to have)
JUnit 5 Mockito

API & Architecture:
RESTful APIs JSON XML
Microservices architecture

Databases:
Oracle / PostgreSQL / MS-SQL
SQL performance tuning and data modeling

DevOps & CI/CD:
Git / GitLab
CI/CD pipelines

Testing & Quality:
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Unit and integration testing

Agile & Tools:
Agile / Scrum
JIRA Confluence

Experience using AI-powered developer tools (e.g. MS copilot Google code assistants etc.)
Applying AI to:
Accelerate code development and refactoring
Improve unit test coverage and test quality
Assist in root cause analysis and defect resolution

Skills:

• English
• GitLab
• Java
• Jira
• SCRUM
• SQL
• Python

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.