Technical Lead (Shared Services)

Key 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 otherdevelopers in developing quality code
• Conduct code reviews
• The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any additional hours as requested or as needed to meet business requirements.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Qualification & Requirements

Required Job Skills

• Extensive Knowledge of Rest, C#/Java, SQL, Enterprise Integration Patterns, CI/CD, OAuth 2.0, Domain Driven Development (DDD), AWS/Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), Single sign on (SSO) /Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Agile, NOSQL
• Strong knowledge of application security and securing the complete solution
• Mastery of coding design patterns and services architecture
• A proven track record of using technology to capitalize on business opportunities and deliver projects on time and on budget consistently.
• Proven experience in documenting business processes and creating system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc.
• Understands and resolves highly complex large scale or systems level problems. Able to quickly and efficiently troubleshoot such problems utilizing team resources to coordinate solutions
• Strong leadership, partnership, collaboration and teambuilding skills.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and performance engineering practices.
• Ability to apply verbal, written and persuasive communication skills to influence others both individually and groups.
• Proficient in utilization of audio/visual tools to effectively present to groups and capable of presenting technical information to other functions or groups both inside and outside of the organization
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and development teams to ensure the architecture and design is usable, maintainable, scalable, reliable, extensible, secure, portable and functional.
• Understand, advocate and augment the standards, best practices and architectural principles that guide solution decisions, development environments, tools, and deployment procedures for the enterprise.
• Strong self-starter, motivated, enthusiastic, risk taker, innovative, and customer service oriented with a record of success.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to cope with the rapid pace and constant change associated with the industry.
• Ability to successfully manage numerous projects simultaneously.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written, with internal and external contacts.
• Extensive experience or understanding of services technologies and standards, .NET platform, and Web Service Specifications WS
• Technical expertise knowledge in: XML and Web Services, XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and GRID.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture and security architecture concepts.
• Strong command of database design concepts

Required Professional Competencies

• Customer focused with strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact professionally at all levels of the organization and across multiple technological and business functions.
• Able to teach others and explain complex concepts with clarity, educating through knowledge sharing presentations and written documents.
• Ability to be self-aware and emotionally intelligent, able to give and receive constructive feedback and continue self-development.
• Confidence to challenge the status quo and lead change in the organization.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern architecture and design.
• Mix of creative and technical thinking with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of IT systems, practices and functional units.
• Strong knowledge of application development, infrastructure and operations.
• Ability to be approachable and develop healthy working relationships across a diverse team.
• Ability to assess a situation, make critical observations and take appropriate risks, using available information.
• Anticipate downstream technical needs and steer architectural designs to appropriately factor in considerations.
• Strong analytical skills to support independent and effective decisions.
• Be driven for results and work effectively with management, project managers, analysts, developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, and testers to conceive, design, and deliver successful solutions.
• Able to operate at highly varying levels of abstraction including business strategy, technology strategy, technical design and implementation.

Required Leadership Experience And Competencies

• Provide leadership, promote teamwork, and act collaboratively to meet objectives.
• Experience leading teams and implementing projects with both business and technical participants.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work with multiple priorities, sometimes under limited time contstraints.
• Ability to build consensus with a diverse team in an ever-changing environment.

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…