Lead Software Engineer

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The Job Details are as follows:

The Lead Software Engineer will join the development staff that is developing the software for the WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager product. WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager automatically delivers and updates WorldCat MARC records and maintains WorldCat holdings for all or subsets of institution's collection, including licensed, digital and physical materials.

Responsibilities

• Perform high level analysis and design software for new and existing systems
• Use industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into code
• Use the latest innovations for Hadoop development, such as creation of MapReduce jobs
• Work with others to design solutions for both offline batch processes and web-based applications
• Champion the use of the latest innovations in batch processing and UI development
• Design, code and test multiple modules of a system in a timely manner
• Participate in unit, system & acceptance testing by designing tests, building test data, along with making recommendations/improvements/fixes to the tested system
• Plan and assist in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing.
• Assist in requirements creation by working with the product manager and other developers
• Support the application in production
• Contribute to architectural reviews
• Follow all OCLC ISO-9000 procedures and the SDLC as they pertain to work unit, and continually seek improvements to development procedures
• Participate in the analysis and implementation of third party solutions for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a Computer Science-related discipline required
• At least 5-7 years of software development experience
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in object-oriented design
• Strong Java skills with 5+ years coding experience
• Coding skills in XML, Junit and testing frameworks (like Mockito, Jmock, etc), and Groovy are highly desirable
• Understanding of Database design principles