Position Description

• Lead delivery teams which develop new custom applications or enhances existing applications, and provides system integration services

• Assist Project Manager in the planning and estimation of project deliverables
• Plan, direct and coordinate daily activities with the team members
• Contribute to the development of standards and processes
• Lead technical design
• Supervise the progress of development activities and contribute to it when required
• Create/ write technical documentation (System Design, Detailed Design)
• Perform code reviews
• Support the team in troubleshooting technical issues
• Enforce coding standards and best practices
• Assist project manager with adhering to project deadlines and schedules

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must Have Requirements:

• 3+ years IT Industry experience in application development as a team lead or technical manager
• Excellent understanding of key concepts of architecture in a distributed environment (SOA , etc.)
• Masters concepts and standards of the software industry such as object-oriented design , design patterns , modeling languages (UML, etc. ) and some communication protocols (SOAP, REST , etc.)
• Solid experience in technology implementation: Java / JEE , Web Services, Oracle DB, Message brokers (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Active MQ), Streaming platforms (Apache Spark, Storm, Samza)
• Experience with development life cycle including:

o Source control ( CVS, Subversion , etc.)

o Build scripts ( Ant , Maven , etc.)

o Development of unit tests ( JUnit , TDD, etc.)

• Knowledge of XML , XSLT , XML Schema and JSON
• Experience working with a third party server environments: WebLogic (an asset), Websphere, JBOSS, Tomcat
• Proven ability to write high quality technical documentation (in English)

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, applications and systems
• A hands on leader (able to code, able to dig deep)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (primarily English)
• Strong organizational and leadership skills with the ability to facilitate technical sessions
• Can communicate in both technical and business terms
• Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to manage a geographically distributed development teams