Applications Developer Lead

Our client is a hugely popular Northwest brand seeking an Applications Developer Lead to provide technical leadership in development for complex projects. This candidate provides supervision and guidance in requirements gathering, makes decisions on complex or ambiguous application development issues, and ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented. In addition s/he 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.
- 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 Requirements:

- Experience analysing, 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 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