Java Technical Lead, Moline, Illinois, Full time

Position:                                              Java Technical Lead
Location:                                             Moline, Illinois

Job type:                                             Full Time / Permanent

Relocation Assistance:                        Yes
Candidate Experience:                         5+ to 7 years of experience
Minimum Education:                          Bachelor's Degree
Willingness to Travel:                        Occasionally

Our IT professionals have the opportunity to participate not only in the normal IT functions, but also in areas where IT is being used within our worldwide product development centers, production and services businesses; including throughout our supply chain. Additionally, working as a member of an aligned, high–performing, cross–functional team, an IT professional at John Deere has opportunity to apply information technologies to improve our business processes and product quality.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

What You’ll Do

As a Java Technical Lead you will be responsible for technical lead duties in the Field Connect Team. In addition, you will:

    Create or oversee the creation of detailed Java application design from requirements and high level architectural design documentation

    Provide work direction for other technical resources

    Coordinate and track project work with onsite and offshore resources –

    Complete feature development along with team in an agile/scrum manner

Qualifications

    We need an excellent communicator, both written and verbal, who thrives on solving problems and working in a global team environment. Ideally, you     

    will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, or a related discipline and/or equivalent work experience. We also require:

    5 + years of Java development experience

    Good knowledge of the Software Development Process

    Experience working with offshore development teams

    Familiarity with Agile/Kanban and XP coding practices

    Willingness and ability to travel internationally

A strong candidate will also have:

    Knowledge of web services, hibernate, JSON, AJAX, HTML5 and/or XML

    Ability to work with complex host applications requiring high performance and scalability

    Integration experience

    Familiarity with iterative development

    User of Test Drive Development Practices

We have a very good relationship with the Hiring Manager and for the right candidate we can arrange an interview within a few days.

I look forward to connecting with you.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter

  

Java Technical Lead, Dallas, TX (Contract)

Position:              Java Technical Lead

Location:             Dallas, TX

Duration:             12+ Months

Job Type:             Contract

Description:

Performs strategic technical design, direction, leadership and development oversight certifying alignment to architecture standards while contributing to assumption based planning.

Responsibilities:

·         Collaborates with Solution Architects, Scrum and all Pod members to achieve Architectural vision

·         Responsible for overall solution integrity for, including quality and performance

·         Provides technical guidance to Business Analysts to flush out stories & their Acceptance Criteria.

·         Provides technical guidance to QA Testing lead to Develop and implement story testing strategy

·         Implements Applications in accordance with the Portfolio Architecture

·         Identifies issues and mitigation options for technology solutions by facilitating collaboration across various technology Teams

·         Responsible for technology delivery estimates

·         Leads developers in the design of all capabilities being implemented

·         Participates in the development effort of user stories for a sprint

·         Performs code reviews, development standards & supports Paired Programming

·         Mentors new Developers to get them up to speed with codebase environment & domain

·         Moderates & unifies differing technical opinions & designs into a cohesive solution representing best interest of Client customers

·         Maintains development process discipline which may include code reviews, code coverage, and metrics collection

·         Responsible to Solution Architects (Technical point of view) & manger for (scope, timeline, budget)

·         Document all pertinent communication relevant to a story, in Agile Development Tool

Competencies:

·         Good understanding of the technology industry including proven, leading practices as well as emerging practices and technologies

·         Understand, work with, and drive application functional and non-functional testing

·         Participate in code reviews, identifying anti-patterns in the code and refactoring opportunities

·         Critical thinking, problem solving skills and understanding of Project Management skills.

·         Understands how design choices may impact achieving the NFRs

·         Exceptional knowledge of the logical and physical data models for specific applications

·         Familiarity with the data of related applications, at least from an integration perspective

·         Exceptional knowledge of business functionality rules and how the functionality is implemented using the applications technologies

·         Understand the business process and business rules for an application area

·         Reviews design documents prepared by Sr. Developers on the Team and provide constructive feedback on the completeness and quality of the documentation

·         Good working relations hip with technical Leaders in their portfolio, and as appropriate strong working relationship with business customers

·         Willingness to Compromise knows which battles to fight

Technologies:

·         Java/Java Script / Swing for java desktop applications

·         C experience is a plus

·         Agile development and delivery

·         Build tools and IDEs such as svn/git/ant/maven/Jenkins, eclipse/rad/intellij – web sphere / tomcat

·         Test-driven-development

·         Frameworks and techniques: spring mvc, hibernate, rest, soa, xml over http;

·         Tibco

·         MQ

·         Oracle / my SQL databases

·         Continuous integration

We have a very good relationship with the Hiring Manager and for the right candidate we can arrange an interview within a few days.

I look forward to connecting with you.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter