Technical Lead

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Technical Lead you will be responsible for the technical approach and implementation of new and existing applications within your workstream. You are a software engineer who is comfortable leading agile development teams in a hands-on way providing guidance regarding best practices and working in cooperation with your team’s federal leadership architect Scrum Master designer and other engineers. You make informed decisions with input from informed parties at all levels of the organization in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. You are comfortable providing leadership and guidance to less-experienced team members and collaborating with other senior members of your team. You have a passion for high-quality reliable and maintainable code. You are agile and retrospective and not afraid to identify what we are doing wrong so we can fix it and what we are doing right so we can improve upon it.

Skills Expertise and Expectations:

• Lead teams in to research design develop test build and coordinate the deployment and integration of software products based on client requirements.

• Possess experience leading teams and proficient in working with several of the following languages and frameworks: Java Spring Boot Javascript Ruby Rails ReactJS Swift Python/Anaconda Scala.

• Proficient in working with several of the following platforms: AWS EC2 ECS EKS and Lambda Docker Swagger Redis New Relic Kubernetes.

• Proficient in developing code testing and debugging new software or enhancements to existing software.

• Proficient in writing and maintaining unit and integration tests for all new and changed code.

• Proficient knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL Oracle RDS DynamoDB.

• Ability to demonstrate and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to clearly communicate with both customers and teammates and provide recommendations for improvements to existing software applications.

• Possess and apply expertise to multiple complex work assignments which are broad in nature requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.

• Ability to apply a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.

• Consult with project teams and end users to identify application requirements.

• Address problems of systems integration compatibility and multiple platforms.

• Perform feasibility analysis on potential future application projects to inform leadership decisions.

• Assist in the evaluation and recommendation of new and existing technical approaches tools platforms and integration possibilities.

• Participate in development of architectural documentation and provide input to technical and operational program reports.

• 5+ years’ experience working in an agile development environment preferably SAFe or Scrum.

• Actively participate in and contribute to planning refinement estimation design retrospective and technical demo meetings.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Years of Experience: 12+ years of relevant professional experience

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

• Location: Remote; must be available to work on Eastern time zone schedule

  Clearance:

• Residence within the U.S. for three (3) of the past five (5) years and current residence within the U.S.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS EOD (Public Trust) – existing Public Trust desired

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Participate in development of architectural documentation and provide input to technical and operational program reports.
• 5+ years’ experience working in an agile development environment preferably SAFe or Scrum.
• Actively participate in and contribute to planning refinement estimation design retrospective and technical demo meetings.