Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In addition to design and coding, you are expected to communicate regularly with other groups made up of employees in office and adopt company culture

• Demonstrably strong technical and project management skills, proven experience with technologies in use, and experience working with offshore developers.
• Analyze business and user requirements, develop product solutions to meet those requirements, and integrate the solutions into the local business unit technical landscape
• Extend corporate and strategic architectures into line-of-business solutions.
• Communicate technical solutions to business and technical staff.
• Interact with business and technical partners to guide the software development process. Serve as an interface to the Global Platform Organization platform and asset development teams.
• Supervise, assign, and schedule staff and consultants for development projects. Manage closure of requirements, issues and defects. Direct daily developer activities.
• Contribute to the evolution of the global tools, frameworks, and methods of work
• Adhere to existing software development policies and procedures and develop new procedures and participate in software process improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement new technologies for software development. Stay abreast of current trends and technologies and introduce them into the Global Platform Organization development process.

Other Duties

• Will regularly be required to interview and onboard (off-shore) developers
• May occasionally interview and hire staff.
• Position may require working some evening, weekend, and holiday hours.
• May perform other duties as assigned by management.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree (B.E/ B Tech. Computer Science) from a four-year college or university, or equivalent, Masters a plus.

Must have skills

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of software development experience.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies (e.g. - Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with technical leadership of software development teams.
• Experience with JavaScript/ Typescript and front-end development including Angular/React , Node-JS, HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience with Java and (/or) DotNet based development
• Excellent technical skills in software architecture, design and development.
• Highly motivated self-starter and good team player
• Able to work independently and responsibly on assigned projects
• Strong English language written and oral communication skills
• Ability to absorb and analyze new technologies and practices.
• Ability to effectively manage software development projects and deliver applications on time, on quality and on budget.
• Strong research and documentation skills.
• Ability to handle aggressive project schedules, inconsistent business requirements, ownership and commitment, and strict release deadlines.

Preferred

• Experience working with Semantic web
• Experience with daily offshore development interaction. Eastern European offshore experience a plus.
• Related experience in content retrieval, search (Solr), or publishing systems desirable.

Travel Requrements

Position requires some international travel, on a regular basis, comprising no more than 10% of total days worked.