Senior Software Engineer
As the Engineering Lead you will be expected to provide leadership and technical direction to a software development team for a component within a specified product domain. In this role you will work with Architects to create and implement a long-term vision, orchestrate high-quality software implementation, maintain, guide, improve architectural integrity and evolution for assigned area. You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality full stack solutions in a collaborative, agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of business areas: client management, candidate registrations and customer service. You will also be responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. Additionally, you should excel at fostering high team morale, mentorship and be comfortable coaching team members to ensure best practices and architectural guidelines are followed for their assigned area. You will also be expected to continually contribute to process improvement activities.
The Engineering Lead will:
Work with Product Engineering Manager, Product Architect, and product managers to provide architecture solutions and leadership at the product component level. You will oversee the implementation of software that achieves the goals of the architecture in their area.
You will do this by contributing to the following breakdown of general responsibilities:
70% Architecture & Development:
Create, document, implement, and oversee the long-term vision, architecture, and initiatives in their assigned area
Estimate software development requirements, propose alternatives and prioritize development tasks for a given project
Ensure high level requirements from project stakeholders are satisfied, complete and testable
Review code and documents for their assigned area to ensure designs and coding are holistic
Assess, oversee and deliver the technical delivery of high-quality projects and products
Design, code, maintain, and assess items in their assigned area taking into account performance, maintainability/complexity, market trends and innovation, controlling costs, system robustness and scalability, and long-term quality initiatives
Point person accountable for their assigned area that will capture, summarize, and escalate issues as necessary for resolution and awareness
15% Engineering Leadership:
Strategic and tactical responsibility on a daily basis for developing and enhancing the technical architecture and projects of assigned area and ensuring user needs are met
Coordinate and unify the work of architects and team members through the software implementation process
Assist as necessary with defining roles and assigning workloads for their area of responsibility
Liaison for numerous functional areas within the organization
Provide technical mentoring to developers, senior developers and QE’s within a domain or project, or as assigned
Proactively design training opportunities that align with group goals
Induct new members for assigned projects
Proactively foster collaboration among technical teams
5 % Process and Quality Improvement Responsibility:
Participate in and initiate group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence
Participate in and monitor the effectiveness of requirements, design, code, unit test and QA test case reviews and inspections
Assess and oversee the technical delivery of projects to ensure best practices are followed
Report any potential opportunities regarding assigned domain, other domains, or client opportunities
5 % Defect and Backlog Review:
Triage, assign, and monitor new QA or pre-production defects and parking lot items.
Assist as required on urgent production defects
5% Other duties as assigned
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
8+ years of relevant software development experience including creating business applications with relational database systems. Angular JS and .NET are required
Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS
Experience in OOAD, design patterns, and UML
3+ years experience working with Azure
1+ years experience in software architecture
2+ years experience in technical leadership
5+ years experience in programmatic interaction with relational database systems
4+ years production support experience
4+ years Agile experience
Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture
Experience providing technical leadership to a team
Experience in creating design documents and performing code reviews
Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
Ability to think technically and analytically
Ability to lead and/or coordinate multiple projects, enhancements, defects or initiatives simultaneously
Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
Must have strong time management and project management skills including the ability to work well under pressure, plan and set priorities, make decisions and set direction, adapt to change, and meet established timelines.
Ability to effectively manage, measure, and continuously improve working performance and quality of teams and individuals
Continuous expansion of knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
Experience in application performance management and performance tuning
Enterprise knowledge of business and platforms across systems within our core technology service model
Must develop effective relationships with customers and work well within a team
Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented
Must have a positive and energetic demeanor
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Creative problem-solving skills
Must have mentoring and training skills
Experience with some or all of the following tools (Required):
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Job: Engineering
Job Family: TECHNOLOGY
Organization: Assessment & Qualifications
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 23975
