Technology Lead

As a Technology Lead, you are responsible for leading technical teams in transforming architectural concepts into prototypes. While you should always be able to do hands-on coding, working with our team that services the Army account will require leadership and multitasking skills. You will guide and coach developers toward writing better code while providing support to other disciplines by performing technical analysis of their inputs and advising discipline leads on paths forward. You excel at working independently, assuming ownership of the design, interface, and programming of simple and complex websites. In this role, you will put your knowledge of a variety of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, leading frameworks, and content management systems to research and prototype new ideas before architecting the creative idea into an accessible, scalable, and performant web experience.

This position can be done remotely depending on location within the US. 
US Citizenship is required to obtain U.S. security clearance.

You will:

• Lead talented developer teams toward delivering code, websites, features, and workflows.
• Perform technical work estimations, own and act upon your estimates to deliver work.
• Develop web applications that follow the latest web standards and conforms with leading-edge front-end technologies.
• Work closely with Creative, Strategy, Marketing, Business, QA and other Technology teams to ensure the technology will be functional, and meets performance targets on all web platforms (mobile, desktop).
• Own the development of web applications and ensure they follow the overall technical architecture and design established by the project.
• Implement user and business requirements which are composed of multiple development activities.
• Maintain up-to-date and complete documentation on projects as dictated by the capability’s guidelines and best practices.
• Coordinate with QA and leverage team to troubleshoot complex issues in existing web applications.
• Proactively provide feedback on policies and procedures when an opportunity for improvement exists.
• Explore and innovate ways to accomplish tasks, workflows and projects.
• Proactively provide guidance and support to developers of various levels, to fulfill their tasks and improvement their performance and overall technical skills.

You have:

• At least 6 years of experience working with ES6/ vanilla JavaScript.
• At least 5 years of experience working with Front-End technologies (CSS (SASS, LESS)./ HTML).
• Experience in AEM components creation, dialogs and HTL(modernization of existing components)refactoring. CRX Classic or Touch UI. Any other CMS experience is welcomed.
• Experience dealing with Cross-browser and Responsive development standards.
• Excellent knowledge of recent development practices (Mobile First, MVC, Object Oriented development).
• Work experience integrating web solutions with external web services.
• Knowledge of design patterns (e.g., model-view-controller, observer, object oriented, etc.) and working with several mainstream libraries and frameworks (jQuery, VueJS, Node, React).
• Fluency with data transfer formats and protocols popular in web applications (eg. JSON, XML, HTTP).
• Capable of working with version control systems (GIT, Bitbucket).
• Capable of building proof of concept prototypes.
• Familiarity with search technologies (SOLR is a plus)
• Capable of troubleshooting, debugging and doing root cause analysis of web applications issues.
• Capable of consuming, parse and translate SOAP or REST web services.