Experis - Senior AI Application Developer (CLP)

AI Developer is needed in Chicago, United States.

Client: Experis

Location: Chicago, IL

Contract: Contract

Job Description

We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Data Solution Developer to design, build, and optimize mission-critical applications and data platforms. You will own end-to-end engineering across backend services (Java/Spring) and data layers with a focus on performance, reliability, security, and scalability. Additionally, you will be responsible for integrating with industry-leading AI platforms for a cybersecurity intelligence solution. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex data and system problems, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring others.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development:

• Architect, develop, and maintain backend services using Java (Java 11+/17), Spring (Boot, Data, Security), and RESTful APIs.
• Implement robust data access patterns using JDBC, JPA/Hibernate, and stored procedures/functions where appropriate.

Database Engineering:

• Design and optimize schemas, indexes, constraints, and query plans for Oracle Database.
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT processes; ensure data quality, lineage, auditing, and reconciliation.
• Implement and query Graph databases (e.g., TigerGraph, Neo4j, JanusGraph, Amazon Neptune) for relationship-heavy workloads; design graph models (nodes, relationships, properties), Cypher/Gremlin queries.

AI Platform Integration:

• Design and implement AI and Graph DB friendly application data output.
• Integrate with Graph DB for security graph visualization.
• Integrate with LLMs and provide solutions for complex cybersecurity investigations.

Performance, Scalability & Reliability:

• Conduct SQL performance tuning (execution plans, hints, statistics, partitioning, indexing strategies).
• Profile Java services (GC tuning, thread management, connection pools, caching) to meet latency and throughput SLAs.
• Design for high availability and disaster recovery (replication, failover, backups).

Security & Compliance:

• Implement least-privilege access, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets management, auditing, and compliance (SOX/PCI/HIPAA as applicable).

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Partner with Product, Data, and Platform teams to translate requirements into robust designs.
• Lead code reviews, establish best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
• Contribute to roadmaps, estimation, documentation, and production support (on-call rotation if applicable).

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 5+ years focused on Java backend development.
• Expert-level SQL and RDBMS experience with Oracle (schema design, complex queries, query optimization, stored procedures, PL/SQL/T-SQL).
• Hands-on experience with Graph databases (TigerGraph/Neo4j/JanusGraph/Amazon Neptune), including data modeling and query languages (Cypher, Gremlin).
• Strong experience with Java 11+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA/Hibernate, and JDBC.
• Proven track record in performance tuning (both SQL and JVM), transactions, locking, isolation levels, and concurrency.
• Strong experience using the MCP to enable LLMs to safely query and interact with cybersecurity data sources. Familiarity with secure context management and auditability within MCP-driven architectures is highly valued.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
• Solid understanding of data security, encryption, auditing, and access control.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, communication, and the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data caching (Redis/Apache Ignite), message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with partitioning, sharding, table compression, in-memory OLTP, and columnstore indexes (MSSQL).
• Exposure to Oracle features (e.g., AWR/ASH, optimizer hints, partitioning, materialized views).

Additional Information

• MUST BE ABLE TO WORK ON W2.
• Onsite in Chicago 5 days a week.
• 18-month contract.
• Self-motivated and enjoy resolving issues and building solutions to complex problems.