Application Developer Lead

Our client is a hugely popular Pacific Northwest company seeking an Applications Developer Lead. Must have a broad range of development skills including C#,.NET, Visual Studio, TFS, SQL Server, and others, as well as advanced software testing abilities. This candidate will make decisions on complex or ambiguous application development issues, provide leadership in requirements gathering activities, and ensure that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency. Must be able to provides technical direction, training and guidance for less experienced staff.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Collaborates with business partners, other Information Technology (IT) teams and senior application developers to arrive at recommendations for technology decisions. This includes package selection, and systems design and modifications. Initiates process improvements for new and existing systems.
- Designs, develops, implements, documents, and tests changes to an application subsystem.
- Codes, tests, debugs, documents, and implements complex software applications.
- Creates more complex prototypes and ensures deliverables are high quality and meet user expectations.
- Supports system and integration testing activities. Initiates design reviews for new applications and adheres to software development standards.
- Leads, coaches, and mentors other team members.
- Performs cross training and facilitates information sharing among team members.
- Assists with management of team tasks, projects, and performance reviews.
- Provides supervision and guidance in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
- Collaborates with Functional Analysts in completing deliverables.
- Translates business requirements and functional designs into technical designs.
- Assists with development of functional designs and resolves complex design issues.
- Acts as senior technical expert to analyze the business needs.
- Recommends and establishes new software development, testing and documentation standards.
- Monitors and ensures compliance of standards.
- Resolves or assists with escalated software application issues as needed.
- Leads and coordinates activities to develop and execute plans to mitigate occurrence and reoccurrence of production issues.
- Oversees and contributes to the documentation of production support processes.
- Anticipates long term support issues and plans for corrective actions.
- Supervises and collaborates with support teams to ensure complex issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Performs root cause analysis to identify permanent resolutions to software or business process issues.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

- Analyzing, diagnosing and proposing solutions to application or business process issues: 8 years
- Application development and programming experience: 8 years
- Providing support to various business applications: 8 years
- Providing technical oversight and guidance on technical projects on a variety of application platforms: 8 years
- Mentoring, coaching and leading other technical team members: 6 years
- Working with process owners and identifying information technology solutions that enable business process: 6 years
- Strong Object Oriented development and design skills (C#/.NET Framework 4.0/4.5)
- Experience with Visual Studio 2010/2012
- Experience using source control, preferably Team Foundation Server 2010/2012
- Experience with content management systems such as Sitecore and Orchard preferred
- Experience with SQL Server 2008 including Creating tables, writing stored procedures, debugging, performance tuning, SSIS
- Experience with other databases are a plus (document, key/value, etc.: Mongo, Redis, etc.)
- Experience with design, development, and testing of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC Web API, and WCF services (SOAP and REST)
- Understanding of, and ideally experience using, various forms of security applied to web services such as Basic Auth, OAuth 2.0, and API keys
- Experience with both XML and JSON data
- Experience consuming publicly available rest services is beneficial (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
- Testing experience including Visual Studio/Team Foundation/Other tools
- Experience designing, creating, and executing unit tests, integration testing, load and performance tests
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency in programming languages
- Ability to quickly learn new application systems and technologies
- Knowledge of basic project management framework and methodology
- Ability to accurately break down complex application designs into component deliverables and estimate design and development timelines
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Should be a good team player, pro-active in identifying gaps and suggesting solutions, good with problem solving