Lead, Software Engineering

Overview

Work as part of an agile team to design and implement new features and technologies.  Deliver high-quality, high-performance code in an agile environment.  Use, evaluate, and learn exciting new technologies that keep products and teams on the cutting edge.  Provide technical direction and oversight for a single development project.  Contribute to the leadership of cross-functional teams.  Help lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on quality, performance, and resiliency.  

*  Please note this is a Hybrid opportunity.  The position requires two to three days of work on site in our Lewisville, TA labroatory.  The other two days will be work from home.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the work being done by other software engineers working on the team, coordinating team activities with other teams and product groups, maintaining software architecture standards. 
• Consistently defines and applies technologies, standards and software engineering practices, mentoring other team members.  
• Contributes in leading and directing software engineering resources to ensure timely and quality delivery of services.   
• Responsible for mentoring junior talent as well as directing technical staff through technical challenges, tasks and projects.   
• Develop key product features within existing large-scale enterprise applications & new strategic initiatives.  
• Participate in the full SDLC involving design, implementation, testing, and launching. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (QA, Business Analyst, Tech Pubs, etc.) in an Agile/Scrum team environment. 
• Assist with the generation and analysis of business and functional requirements for proposed software solutions. 
• Participate in and sometimes lead architectural and database design discussions as they relate to product direction. 
• Create design specifications, documentation, and unit testing plans as defined by the Agile development process. 
• Generate data for project planning, including task breakdown and estimation of work for a project.  Tracks status within the project as necessary.  
• Delegates tasks to project team members to balance work and increase team cross-training. 
• Raises long-term architecture issues within project.
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, and serve as a technical lead on small to midsize complex projects. 
• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the other component pieces. 
• Maintain and support software solutions post-production. 
• Implements and debugs some of the more involved/complex functionality. 

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's Degree Required 

Required Work Experience:  

• 5-7 years of professional experience in software development. 
• 2 – 3 years in technical leadership. 
• Demonstrated experience with JAVA/J2EE programming

Nice to have:

• Exhibited proficiency with Intersystems Cache technology 

Knowledge:  

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented (OO) design patterns, distributed databases, and data modeling techniques. 
• Proficiency in Enterprise Java programming plus one or more modern programming languages  
• Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications. 

Skills:  

• Ability to multi-task  
• Analytical skills  
• Ability to follow verbal or written instructions  
• Thinking analytically  
• Strong writeen and verbal communication   
• Handling stress & emotions  
• Making decisions  
• Adjusting to change  
• Examining/observing details 
• Ability to direct and motivate other technical resources
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Motivation to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects 
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating 

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

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