Lead Software Engineer

Participates as a senior team member in the design, development, and maintenance of multi-tiered business applications. Individuals holding this position are typically expected to be mentors from technical and delivery perspectives, as well as to work independently as a member of a team. Incumbents have a thorough understanding of the available technology landscape, tools, and existing designs. This individual also participates fully in all team practices and standards. This role interfaces with IT colleagues and other stakeholders to evaluate defined complex business requirements and processes, assesses available technologies, determines infrastructure, and recommends solution options. Incumbents play a significant role in building application solutions, which may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools. Demonstrates personal accountability and actively engages the team in demonstrating accountability. Supports quality efforts within the team.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Analysis and Design:

• Analyzes the impact of requirements and works with solution architects on software solutions.
• Must consider usability, extensibility, efficiency, and performance during all phases of development.
• Applies design patterns to build secure, maintainable, testable, and evolvable software to ensure coherence across applications.
• Participates in designing software solutions and prepares technical documentation, taking into consideration the enterprise architecture, including authoritative sources of data, data and systems integration, and interrelationships across multiple subject areas (including transformation rules).
• Participates in and leads design reviews.
• Contributes to the product backlogs.
• Assists in scheduling backlog items in the optimal execution order and ensures that the backlog is comprehensive.
• Advocates adoption of enterprise initiatives.
• Helps develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments as appropriate to ensure successful implementation and support efforts.

Development:

• Estimation: Develops and facilitates technical estimates and timeframes without having complete information and provides a confidence level in the estimate. Mentors others in good estimation techniques
• Coding: Mentors developers in the design and construction of complex business applications and prepares technical specifications to develop software solutions. Leads the evolution and improvement of these standards and practices. Develops software to transform and migrate data across environments. Actively participates in peer code reviews and is responsible for code quality.
• Test Automation: Responsible for writing pre-deployment automated tests for any delivered code. Participates in testing and debugging of the overall system as required. Reviews automated test code to ensure appropriate test coverage. Demonstrates ability to set up and monitor automated tests in the CICD pipeline. Makes decisions regarding where to focus and improve the efficiency, coverage, and stability of automated tests. Participates in coding and maintenance of post-deployment test automation frameworks.
• Support: Supports and plans effort to implement application in production and support post-production. Ensures development work includes detailed, high-quality documentation at an appropriate level to allow for maintenance and support. Plans and executes reduction of technical debt and mitigates risks associated with upgrades

Research:

• Participates in continuous improvement through experimentation to stay abreast of the changing technological landscape and clearly articulates and presents value to the product organization.
• Engages in delivery of applicable enterprise initiatives.
• Actively participates within learning forums and contributes to setting forum objectives.
• Deeply understands the technology/business landscape.

Leadership:

• Encourages team member contribution within design and implementation efforts within product teams.
• Serves as a role model in delivery accountability, process, and mindset.
• Demonstrates and continuously broadens technical capabilities and domain knowledge where an individual could serve effectively on a variety of product teams.
• Enables successful outcomes on teams by proactively identifying and raising transparency of impediments.
• Mentors junior team members. Fosters teamwork and excellent communication among team members. Provides meaningful feedback.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience required to perform essential job functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): 7+ years of application development experience with large-scale business applications in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.
• 5+ years designing, developing, and implementing business applications from business concept through production.
• Object-oriented design, development, and implementation of business applications in current computing architectures.
• Working knowledge of relevant technologies: front-end tools, middleware, databases, ORMs, development frameworks, design patterns, API design, test automation, DevOps, cloud architecture, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to demonstrate skills in solving complex problems within and across teams.
• Strong analytical skills required. Ability to develop accurate estimates for complex solutions and bring transparency to the estimation process.
• Demonstrates drive to align estimates to meet organizational goals.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required. Strong work ethic and ability to demonstrate personal accountability for successful product delivery.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to translate technical concepts to the appropriate level of the audience.
• Ability to work self-directed as part of a cross-functional team and show commitment to the product and team.
• Instills a sense of urgency in the team and focuses the team on efficient delivery.
• Ability to present technical concepts is desired.
• Must-have skills: Sinequa highly desired, REST APIs, C#, Azure DevOps, and search semantics.
• Experience working with the on-prem cloud.
• 4 years/bachelor's degree required.

Skills

.NET, API, APIs, C#, CSharp, REST, RESTful, Sinequa