Job Summary
Position Summary
The Senior Java Platform Engineer is responsible for owning, maintaining, enhancing, and governing common Java libraries, utilities, frameworks, and shared components developed as part of Mainframe Modernization . These reusable assets serve as foundational building blocks for multiple modernized applications and are distributed through the enterprise artifact repository.
The role focuses on ensuring shared Java components are reliable, maintainable, secure, versioned appropriately, and consumable by application teams. The engineer will work closely with application development teams, platform engineering, architecture, testing teams, and business SMEs to support the long-term operational ownership of common code ecosystem
Key Responsibilities
Key Skills
- Strong hands-on Java development experience, including design, development, troubleshooting, refactoring, and production support.
- Experience maintaining enterprise Java frameworks, reusable libraries, and shared platform components.
- Strong understanding of Maven, Gradle, dependency management, and artifact lifecycle management.
- Experience with Artifactory or similar enterprise artifact repositories.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality controls, and release management.
- Experience with GitHub, source control management, branching strategies, and pull request processes.
- Familiarity with legacy modernization, mainframe-to-Java migration, code conversion, or re-platforming initiatives.
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL; DB2 LUW experience preferred.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
- Ability to work across multiple application teams and manage shared-code dependencies.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
Skill Requirements
Shared Component Ownership
- Own the lifecycle of common Java libraries, utilities, frameworks, and reusable services.
- Maintain and enhance shared components while ensuring backward compatibility and minimal disruption to consuming applications.
- Establish and enforce standards for reusable code, library design, packaging, and consumption.
Artifact Repository Management
- Build, package, version, and publish approved Java artifacts to Artifactory.
- Manage artifact versioning, release governance, dependency tracking, and deprecation strategies.
- Ensure shared artifacts are properly documented and available for enterprise consumption.
Development & Support
- Review, maintain, and enhance converted Java utilities, common-code components, and shared services delivered through Mainframe modernization.
- Analyze code for maintainability, performance, reliability, operational supportability, and security.
- Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, and validation activities involving shared platform components.
Consumer Team Enablement
- Partner with application teams consuming shared libraries and common services.
- Provide guidance on library adoption, upgrade planning, dependency management, and integration best practices.
- Support onboarding of new application teams to common components.
Build, Release & Quality Engineering
- Maintain build pipelines and automated validation processes for shared components.
- Implement and support automated testing, code quality analysis, and security scanning.
- Ensure artifacts meet enterprise quality, security, and compliance standards before publication.
Governance & Documentation
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, dependency inventories, release notes, and support runbooks.
- Establish change management, regression testing, and release processes for shared components.
- Help define the long-term ownership and support model for common code assets.