Factory Tech Lead

New Factory Tech Lead

McLean VA

Day 1 onsite 3 days onsite 2 days remote

Bill USD 80 Per Hour

Technical Leadership:

Lead a team of employees and contingent workers to remediate applications with out of support/legacy technologies and/or security vulnerabilities.

Provide direction to keep team on track to complete projects and ensure project goals are met by assigning tasks to team members and timely follow ups.

Meet development schedules by ensuring the delivered solutions meet the technical specifications and design requirements.

Drive/Lead key technical and architectural decisions for the systems provide and influence key designing decisions for the technology infrastructure and configuration of the systems for scalability and capacity.

Application Remediation:

Provide proactive advice and feedback throughout the development lifecycle for prevention and early correction of quality problems.

Train and mentor junior staff / team members

Employ extensive professional experience and creativity to resolve sophisticated technical problems.

Contribute to design and code reviews.

Document lessons learned and help maintain knowledge database.

Technology/Business Partnership:

Collaboratively work with all other IT Teams to identify Win/Win opportunities and improve efficiency.

Championing and influencing technology decisions with business partners IT management and Team members on matters concerning multiple sophisticated projects which requires the ability to negotiate while maintaining effective relationships.

Champion current trends in the industry partnering with Engineering and Architecture Services

Driving technical solutions in alignment with architectural roadmaps

Engage with business users application owners and other affected parties in the project inception phase to understand application and define remediation strategy and test strategy.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent

8 Years of experience in IT industry with 4 years of technical leadership

Experience with Java development background and having worked on design optimizations & performance tuning.

Excellent understanding of typical multitier architectures: web servers caching application servers & load balancers

Handson experience on multiple technologies such as:

Java/J2EE & middleware (WebLogic Apache Spring Boot etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell

Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins GIT Bitbucket Artifactory etc.)

Relational databases (Sybase DB2 SQL Server Oracle PostgreSQL)

Information and application security including LDAP certificates public key encryption SSH access credentials etc.

Keys to Success in this Role:

Good interpersonal relationship building and team working skills.

Shown ability to communicate optimally with various teams both business and technical to achieve goals.

Ability to communicate clearly efficiently and persuasively.

Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.