Lead Application Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with others in the division to provide and maintain applications to meet business needs
• Responsible for design and development for complex business solutions
• Provide technical guidance for specific applications
• Support the Digital Sales Team
• Report to the Senior Manager, Engineering - Integration Engineering Department
• Provide expertise during the initial phases of the project including estimating resources, skill requirements, time requirements, identifying technologies, participating in proof of concepts
• Analyze high-level system specifications, requirements and use cases
• Convert information into the appropriate level specifications and system design plan for the development team
• Understand and identify system dependencies
• Consult with others to validate complex design decisions
• Provide advanced coding expertise to mitigate high risk features or technical challenges
• Provide appropriate documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as needed by organization standards
• Define, conduct, mentor others, and participate in testing (i.e. unit, system integration)
• Prepare and lead development walkthroughs
• Collaborate with others regarding effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to verify requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information
• Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and leadership to less experienced staff
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC)
• Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives
• Solid knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies
• Preferred experience in REACT, Java and Node.