Job Details
Technical Leadership:
Lead a team of employees and contingent workers to remediate applications with out of support/legacy technologies and/or security vulnerabilities.
Provide direction to keep team on track to complete projects and ensure project goals are met by assigning tasks to team members and timely follow ups.
Meet development schedules by ensuring the delivered solutions meet the technical specifications and design requirements.
Drive/Lead key technical and architectural decisions for the systems, provide and influence key designing decisions for the technology, infrastructure and configuration of the systems for scalability and capacity.
Application Remediation:
Provide proactive advice and feedback throughout the development lifecycle for prevention and early correction of quality problems.
Train and mentor junior staff / team members
Employ extensive professional experience and creativity to resolve sophisticated technical problems.
Contribute to design and code reviews.
Document lessons learned and help maintain knowledge database.
Technology/Business Partnership:
Collaboratively work with all other IT Teams to identify Win/Win opportunities and improve efficiency.
Championing and influencing technology decisions with business partners, IT management and Team members on matters concerning multiple sophisticated projects which requires the ability to negotiate while maintaining effective relationships.
Champion current trends in the industry partnering with Engineering and Architecture Services
Driving technical solutions in alignment with architectural roadmaps
Engage with business users, application owners and other affected parties in the project inception phase to understand application and define remediation strategy and test strategy.
Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent
8+ Years of experience in IT industry with 4 years of technical leadership
Experience with Java development background and having worked on design, optimizations & performance tuning.
Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers
Hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as:
Java/J2EE & middleware (WebLogic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell
Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.)
Relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.
Keys to Success in this Role:
Good interpersonal, relationship building and team working skills.
Shown ability to communicate optimally with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.
Ability to communicate clearly, efficiently and persuasively.
Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.