About the position
The Developer/Technical Lead will contribute to all aspects of the development life cycle, including identification of requirements, design, coding, performance tuning, unit testing, and will collaborate with other business and technical members to deliver high-quality engineered software solutions. The Technical Lead is responsible for building enterprise scalable and highly performant application services to support critical enterprise systems and applications. The Technical Lead will be responsible for troubleshooting environment and coding problems, determining root cause and providing solutions to production issues. The Technical Lead will be an expert in advanced software engineering methods and techniques and a champion for improving software development practices and producing high-quality software.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, code, and lead the development of various systems and components.
- Collaborate with team members to review user stories and supporting requirements and translate them into a system design.
- Follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models to ensure consistency.
- Solve and articulate complex problems with application design and development.
- Stay current with industry trends and evaluate feasible solutions.
- Assure the proper change management protocols are followed to maximize benefit and alleviate unnecessary disruption to the organization and customers.
- With management, establish and meet short- and long-term department goals in accordance with overall company objectives and divisional strategic planning.
- Assume leadership role in initiating and completing projects related to increased efficiencies, productivity, and quality.
- Review production and operating policies to ensure that the most efficient processes are in place and determine tactical plans to improve processes and services that can be streamlined and/or improved.
- Assist production support when required.
- Independently maintain and develop complex systems and programs.
- Maintain an extensive knowledge of new developments in software engineering.
- Work with Management to prepare Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for software systems.
- Assist in implementing new procedures, including workflows, manuals, and training materials.
- Coordinate and develop training materials for Programmers.
- Participate in technology planning.
- Participate in the project prioritization process.
- Train new staff in the use, understanding, and configuration of the files, terms, and methods used in programming.
- Guide and mentor other developers in developing quality code.
- Conduct code reviews.
Requirements
- 2 years experience in the industry in similar technical leadership role.
- 7 years of SOA/EAI/Middleware architecture, design and implementation experience.
- 4 years of experience in the design, implementation and governance of systems architecture in a complex business applications environment.
- Experience and background in software development and Agile methodologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field.
Nice-to-haves
- 5 years of advanced technical leadership and software engineering experience in .Net and Microsoft Technologies.
- Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Microsoft Technical Certifications.
- Cloud Architect Certification.
