Lead Java Engineer

Lead Java Engineer

Reston, VA, US • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 12 hours ago

Full Time

On-site

USD 90,000.00 - 150,000.00 per year

Trans Union LLC

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Skills

• Privacy, Innovation, IT Management, Mentorship, DevSecOps, Quality Assurance, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Data Security, Productivity, Software Engineering, Microservices, RESTful, Security Controls, Authentication, Encryption, Authorization, OWASP, Java, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Framework, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Apache Maven, Git, Testing, Automated Testing, JUnit, TestNG, Performance Tuning, Artificial Intelligence, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud, Database, Reliability Engineering, Budget, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Taxes, Value Engineering, Legal, FSA, Career Counseling, Insurance, Coaching, Finance, Law, LOS, Recruiting, Business Operations, Training, Sales, Payments, Professional Development, Collaboration, Application Development, Privacy, Innovation, IT Management, Mentorship, DevSecOps, Quality Assurance, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Data Security, Productivity, Software Engineering, Microservices, RESTful, Security Controls, Authentication, Encryption, Authorization, OWASP, Java, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Framework, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Apache Maven, Git, Testing, Automated Testing, JUnit, TestNG, Performance Tuning, Artificial Intelligence, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud, Database, Reliability Engineering, Budget, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Taxes, Value Engineering, Legal, FSA, Career Counseling, Insurance, Coaching, Finance, Law, LOS, Recruiting, Business Operations, Training, Sales, Payments, Professional Development, Collaboration, Application Development, Show more

• Summary

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• Team Overview

• The Core Online team is responsible for building and supporting global enterprise platforms that operate across multiple countries and cloud environments. The team develops highly scalable, secure, and resilient applications that support critical business operations. The team embraces innovation, experimentation, and modern engineering practices to continuously improve products and services. This role reports to Senior Manager of Application Development. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

• Role Overview and Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support large-scale Java-based enterprise applications and global platforms.

• Lead the architecture and implementation of cloud-native, microservices-based solutions using modern engineering practices.

• Build high-volume, low-latency applications capable of meeting stringent availability and performance objectives.

• Design and develop REST APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems that support global business operations.

• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the team.

• Implement CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, and software quality practices throughout the development lifecycle.

• Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

• Apply security best practices, secure coding standards, and data protection controls for highly regulated and sensitive data environments.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools and integrate AI-powered capabilities where appropriate to improve engineering productivity and solutions.

• Required Knowledge and Experiences

• 6+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using Java and modern software engineering practices.

• Strong experience designing and developing distributed systems, microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven applications.

• Experience building cloud-native applications and deploying solutions on cloud platforms, with Google Cloud Platform preferred.

• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and leading incident resolution efforts.

• Experience working with highly regulated data and implementing security controls, including authentication, encryption, authorization, and OWASP best practices.

• Required Technical Skills

• Java and Spring ecosystem expertise including Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data.

• Cloud platforms and container technologies including Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments.

• CI/CD and development tools including Maven, Git, SonarQube, deployment automation, and testing frameworks.

• Automated testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, TestNG, WireMock, and TestContainers.

• Monitoring, observability, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance tuning tools used in large-scale production environments.

• Preferred skills

• Experience integrating AI/LLM solutions, RAG architectures, AI agents, or AI-powered automation capabilities.

• Experience with Google Cloud Spanner or other globally distributed databases.

• Experience designing multi-region and multi-cloud architectures.

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational readiness practices.

• Architecture, Cloud, Kubernetes, Security, or SRE certifications.

Benefits

• We design benefits to help you feel well, do well, and plan well—from day one.

• For Your Health: Day-one eligibility for medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus supplemental plan options. Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select plans. Tax-advantaged HSA and FSA accounts.

• For Your Protection: Company-paid basic life and AD&D, optional voluntary life and AD&D for you and your family, and short- and long-term disability. Optional legal plan, pet insurance, and travel accident coverage.

• For Your Family: Adoption assistance and fertility planning coverage to caregiver support. Dependent Care FSA with potential employer matching, a complimentary Care@Work membership, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave with eligibility for a gradual return.

• For Your Future: 401(k) with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Financial wellness resources, career coaching, and optional long-term care insurance.

• For You: Tuition reimbursement, flexible time off, up to 12 paid holidays per year, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable gift matching, and paid volunteer time off.

• For Your Wellness: 24/7 support including professional therapy, coaching, and emotional well-being programs, plus guided meditation and resources for physical, mental, social, and financial wellness.

• Diversity and Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to being a place where diversity is not only present, it is embraced. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. Additionally, in accordance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, TransUnion takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in all levels of employment and develops annual affirmative action plans. Components of TransUnion's Affirmative Action Program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are available for