Job Description :
Java Technical Lead
Location is Lansing MI
12 months
Phone/Skype
H1’s are fine
Must be Senior Level
Individual must have solid working knowledge of ‘core Java skills’ (Weblogic, Java, J2EE Last week, they asked one of the guys a basic Java question and the candidate responded with something like ‘I can look that up on Google’. The person in this role needs to have solid Java knowledge because they are going to help mentor and lead the technical programmers on the team. They can’t respond with ‘I’ll look it up on Google’ if somebody asks them a coding question.
Individual in this role must be ‘hands on’ – meaning they have working experience with coding, with mentoring technical people, with technical coding reviews, etc. One of the people last week was too ’10,000 foot level’ – meaning they were more strategic in their thought process; they were not real comfortable with the role when told that they would be expected to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and sit with team members to help others get work done. Another person came across as too much like a ‘manager’ as opposed to someone who would help get work done.
This is a technical lead role – not an individual performer role. Meaning that the person in this role will be very much involved in working directly with all of the members on the team as well as with their peers across the organization. In this job, the person should not expect to just sit in their chair all day looking at their screen.