Technical Director
Intelliware Development Inc.
As Technical Director, you will lead the technical and architectural integrity of solutions for multiple custom software delivery projects, contribute to company-wide technical strategy, and represent Intelliware from a technical perspective with current and prospective clients. You will provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership for engagements ranging from proof-of-concept prototypes to bulletproof, long living, high volume production applications. With a focus on understanding business challenges and defining technical solutions and direction, you’ll be involved from qualifying to landing to building projects while working closely with clients and alongside our top-notch dev teams. Intelliware has an exceptional 30+ year delivery track record, deep technical expertise and disciplined delivery and technical engineering practices. The way we build software is strongly influenced by the values of Extreme Programming: feedback, respect, courage, communication, and simplicity. You’ll find continuous opportunities to learn and share knowledge across the developer community at Intelliware via project delivery, monthly educational sessions, study groups and hands-on R&D initiatives.
While working with Agile teams and advising clients, you will be:
- Supporting pre-sales via proposal work, technical assessment/seed architecture overviews, etc.
- Developing and presenting technical assessments and architectural/product roadmaps
- Becoming a trusted technical advisor at the client, program, and project level
- Providing strategic vision, guidance and recommendations based on business drivers and technical constraints
- Partnering with stakeholders to understand challenges/objectives and translate into actionable tasks/scope
- Evaluating technical soundness of solutions and developing business cases for alternative solutions based on business drivers and impact/cost analysis
- Designing high quality applications that are highly scalable and extensible
- Contributing clear and maintainable code to a shared codebase
- Collaborating with cross-functional team members on features, design, and implementation
- Coaching and mentoring team members to help develop their technical and leadership skills
- Investigating, learning, and introducing new technologies and processes
- Promoting best practices across dev team and establishing thought leadership
- Helping set future technical direction through research and review
’Must Have’ Skills and Qualifications:
- Proven software development team/technical project leadership experience
- Proven experience designing and developing complex applications that are highly scalable and extensible
- Fluent and current in Java and/or JavaScript
- Attention to well-crafted software
- Ability to balance multiple projects at the same time
- Growth mindset/ability and desire to learn
- Proven client-facing, partnership, and presentation skills
- Ability to interact effectively with clients to define user requirements and application architecture
’Nice to Have’ Skills and Qualifications:
- Proven sales, pre-sales, or consultant experience for software development (or similar) services
- Exposure to and interest in Agile approaches to software development e.g., automated testing, continuous integration, project rooms, pair programming, etc.
- Fluent and current in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript frameworks
- Experience with Spring Framework and Kotlin
- Relational and/or NoSQL databases, SQL queries and object relational mapping tools
- Significant cloud platform experience, preferably with AWS or Azure
- Strong fundamental knowledge of computer science algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
- Experience designing distributed systems at scale handling data sets using, for example, Apache Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, or Hadoop toolsets
- Distributed computing and platform as a service
- UNIX, Linux and W3C technologies including HTTP and XML
- Automated build, test and deployment tools
We are now working as a remote first organization and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. As a result, all of our interviews will also be conducted remotely. For more info on Intelliware, check out our Careers Page and Instagram. Intelliware is committed to diversity in the workplace. We are an inclusive employer and welcome and encourage applications from all qualified candidates. Applicants’ needs will be accommodated during our recruitment and selection process so please advise us if you require accommodation.
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