Lead Product Software Engineer

The Technical Lead must have a proven track record of managing project resources to meet business and project needs. As such, the candidate must have the ability to understand business strategy and create plans for implementing that strategy in the project. The Technical Lead is part of the project leadership team and is expected to be a team player and a demonstrated leader.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Experience in product release cycle, best practices, code reviews and defect management. Efficient in handling changes and enhancements.
• Out of the box thinking and creative problem solving skills is desired
• Works with the team architects and product owners/managers to design and implement innovative solutions to address specific business problems.
• Works with the IT Operations team to deploying monitoring and performance tuning of deployed applications.
• Identifies optimal technologies to solve a business problem. EX. Evaluating technologies even if beta version or off-the-shelf-applications and their integration in the solution.
• Involved in creating POC, interact with architect within groups to strategize development and build technical roadmap.
• Designs and develops web applications by setting expectations and features priorities throughout development life cycle: determining design methodologies and toolsets.
• When necessary, works with the Software Security Assurance (SSA) program team to help identify and fix security vulnerabilities in the solutions developed
• Updates job knowledge by researching new technologies and software products; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Supports and mentors team members by providing training, advice, coaching and educational opportunities
• Exposure in Test Driven Development (TDD) and a keen focus on unit testing and code coverage
• Ensure best design practices and processes are followed for continuous improvement of product.

Job Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field.
• Preferred 10+ years’ experience in developing software applications
• 2 years of people management experience, managing software engineers