Job Description :
Job Title: Digital Front End Tech Lead
Job Location: Windsor, CT
Project Duration: 6+ Months
Mode of Interview: Phone or Skype/WebEx- really would prefer someone who can interview in-person.
Client is looking for a high level resource to come in and lead a digital initiative.
Summary
Looking for a strong Digital Front end Tech Lead who can jump start a team moving into the Digital Development space covering latest technologies including Lean Portal and Mobile. Plans and schedules the development, introduction, communication and maintenance of the corporate systems architecture including the applications, data, and infrastructure architectures and assures that this architecture is integrated with the business area architectures. May organize and control the activities of the section, may assign personnel to the various projects and may direct their activities. Requires excellent planning, conceptual, consulting and communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to interact with senior business area and IT management and staff solutions. Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and typically eight to ten years experience.
Duties
7+ years of experience developing applications with AngularJS 2.0, TypeScript and object oriented JavaScript.
Handled Team of developers in executing time-bound front-end projects
Interacted with multiple teams - UX, QA, Business Analysts and driving the product functionality
Excellent communication skills, deep understanding of front-end technologies & discipline to follow engineering best practices & processes
Clear understanding of API concepts & SPA
You are proactive and pay attention to the security, scalability, performance, availability and usability of systems
Ambition to make things awesome, not just good enough
Strong experience programming lightweight code, refactoring, optimizing
Value test-driven development, intelligent software design techniques and clean and clear coding style
Follow coding standards set for the project, ensuring high performance and responsiveness
Deep conceptual and technological understanding of contemporary concepts such as mobile development, cloud computing, social networking, BI etc.
Capability to take risks and thrive in an environment of change
Exhibit strong leadership and exceptional technical skills
Solid understanding of web-scale architectural considerations such as security, performance, scalability, reliability, availability
Ability to work independently and also with disparate and diverse teams
Contribute to our native apps written in Objective-C (iOS) or Java (Andriod)
Integrate with our backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that’s super-fast for end users
Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
Participate in brainstorming sessions and have the chance to contribute innovative and original ideas to our technology, algorithms and product
Work with the product and design team to understand end-user requirements and use cases, then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results within a schedule
Will be responsible for standing up a Mobile Development team and guiding the team thru multiple initiatives
Will have to provide technical leadership around choosing appropriate mobile development platform and toolset Drive User Experience thought leadership
Contributes to user research, concept testing, and usability testing
Assists in the translation of business requirements into meaningful requirements or stories
Contributing member of agile team(s)