Drools Lead Developer

Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Remote
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Drools Lead Developer to lead the design, development, integration, and implementation of enterprise-grade business rules solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Drools, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, databases, and CI/CD, along with robust technical leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable business rules solutions using Drools.
- Translate complex business requirements into reusable, maintainable, and effective rule-based solutions.
- Design and implement rule authoring frameworks, decision tables, rule flows, and governance models.
- Integrate Drools with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms.
- Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, solution workshops, and code reviews.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams.
- Establish best practices for rule development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, QA, DevOps, and delivery teams.
- Develop and maintain integrations with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and other relational databases.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment of rules and related services.
- Troubleshoot production issues, rule execution problems, and performance bottlenecks.
- Contribute to Kafka-based event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
- Ensure adherence to coding, security, documentation, and governance standards.

Mandatory Skills





- 8+ years of software design and development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Drools Rules Engine.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale business rules solutions.
- Strong knowledge of rule authoring, decision tables, rule flows, and rule execution.
- Strong experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST APIs.
- Good understanding of OOP, design patterns, and software architecture.
- Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent databases.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Experience leading technical discussions and mentoring developers.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Ability to translate business requirements into effective rule-based solutions.

Good to Have

- Camunda and DMN experience.
- AWS, Azure, or GCP experience.
- Kafka, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
- Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automated testing frameworks.
- Experience in insurance, banking, payments, lending, or other regulated domains.
- Relevant Java, cloud, or enterprise architecture certifications.

Preferred Profile

- Strong technical leadership and solution-design capabilities.
- Experience conducting design workshops and providing technical guidance.
- Customer-facing and consulting experience.
- Ability to influence technical decisions and drive effective delivery.
- Strong understanding of business requirements, architecture, development, and operational considerations.

Core Skills

Drools | Java/J2EE | Spring Boot | Microservices | REST APIs | Business Rules | Decision Tables | Rule Flows | Oracle | SQL Server | PostgreSQL | CI/CD | Kafka | Camunda | DMN | AWS/Azure/GCP

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