Application Developer Lead

Our client is a hugely popular Northwest-based company seeking an APPLICATION DEVELOPER LEAD for a premium contract opportunity.

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 EXPERIENCE:

- 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
- Proficiency in programming languages
- Ability to quickly learn new application systems and technologies
- Ability to accurately break down complex application designs into component deliverables and estimate design and development timelines
- Knowledge of basic project management framework and methodology
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills