# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities:

- Serve as the key technical enabler for the China-based team, owning architecture and engineering direction for CDMS services.

- Lead solution design and technical decision-making across Java/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud microservices landscapes.

- Translate business and functional requirements into robust technical designs, implementation plans, and engineering deliverables.

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, resilient applications and APIs for customer journey initiatives.

- Establish and enforce engineering standards through code reviews, secure coding practices, and quality gates.

- Drive adoption of design patterns and clean architecture principles to improve maintainability, reusability, and extensibility.

- Lead and mentor developers, especially junior/new team members, to improve capability, delivery quality, and team velocity.

- Own production support and service management, including collaboration with internal teams and third-party vendors.

- Manage incidents/problems within SLA targets; lead root-cause analysis and preventive improvement actions.

- Partner with DevOps to improve CI/CD pipelines, release reliability, observability, and operational readiness.

- Continuously benchmark and optimize system performance across application, database, and integration layers.

- Contribute to strategic technology initiatives and department-level engineering improvements.

- Drive AI adoption in engineering and business scenarios, including intelligent automation, assistant/recommendation capabilities, and AI service integration.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines.

- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with proven track record as a Senior Java Engineer / Tech Lead.

- Strong expertise in Java, Spring ecosystem, J2EE, and SQL, with solid object-oriented design and coding fundamentals.

- Deep hands-on experience with Spring Boot; good practical knowledge of Spring Cloud and microservices architecture.

- Strong experience in RESTful API design/development; practical knowledge of API protocols/technologies (e.g., REST, WebSocket).

- Good hands-on knowledge of relational databases and NoSQL technologies (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).

- Practical understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka).

- Strong grasp of software design patterns, clean architecture, and engineering best practices.

- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes preferred).

- Strong DevOps knowledge, including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality/security scanning, release governance, and observability.

- Practical experience with engineering toolchain such as Git, Jenkins, SonarQube (or equivalent).

- Demonstrated AI capability, including exposure to or hands-on delivery in LLM/API integration, intelligent workflow automation, or AI-assisted product features.

- Strong ability to interpret business requirements in English and convert them into scalable technical solutions.

- Solid skills in profiling, benchmarking, and performance optimization.

- Excellent communication, cross-team collaboration, ownership mindset, and leadership under delivery pressure.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring Cloud
- Microservices
- RESTful API
- SQL
- NoSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Git
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- AI

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