Technical Director/ Engineering Lead, 100% Remote

Job Title: Technical Director/ Engineering Lead Location/Remote: Fully Remote Contract/CTH/Perm: 6 Contract to Hire, This is essentially a senior engineering lead, someone that is like a high level architect but not quite a director level candidate. This person will lead a team of Software Engineers, Data Engineers and QE’s. Drive the vision of the project and eventually own it, in an agile environment Technology Must Haves: • Strong Agile experience • Experience leading a SW development team • Technical architecture experience Tech Stack: • Java • Spring boot to create micro-services. • RDBMS • Basic NoSQL • Kafka - They are also some batch processes Nice to Have: • Angular • JavaScript / Typescript • Devops People from Target will be successful here, engineering managers looking to move to the next level will be successful here Job Description: PROJECT: DataCORE is a clinical application platform for healthcare providers to address risk adjustment and quality gaps in care to provide better value-based care. This role is to lead a subset of the engineering team, which will be compromised of data engineers, software engineers, and quality engineers. This person will be the head of a team consisting of SW engineers, data engineers and quality engineers. About 10-15% of the role will require hands on coding, the rest will be technical architecture and driving the vision of the team forward. The project will be in an agile environment, so strong agile experience is required. Looking for someone who has learned valuable lessons and can now apply what they have learned to delivery. This is more of an application architecture and engineering management role. PUBLISHED JOB DESCRIPTION: *** What experience will set candidates apart from one another? This will be hands-on role from a mentorship and delivery standpoint. That is, they must be able to do hands-on coding in Java, as well as be able to test their code. Their approach to software development should have a business focus in an agile environment, but with a technically sound approach to building customer-facing highly scalable, resilient, and supportable applications. Successful candidates will possess experience that demonstrates that. LOCATION: Remote TEAM STRUCTURE: The team is comprised of approximately 25 software engineers and 5 quality engineers spanning two delivery teams. One team is focused primarily on architecture, enablement, and DevOps. The second team is focused on delivery of business features across the entire platform. This will be a leadership role over the entire second delivery team referenced leading two technical delivery managers and the engineering team members that report to them. *** Cannot provide sponsorship upon conversion. *** Candidates must be able to move between hands-on technical at the code level to formal management, mentorship, and leadership. INTERVIEW PROCESS: It is a single round interview of approximately an hour and a half comprised of hands-on coding, logic, and behavioral questions Primary Responsibilities * Facilitate delivery in a cross-functional team of software engineers, quality engineers, and systems analysts in DevOps delivery of a software platform * Coordinate efficient and effective agile delivery processes and contribute to operational enhancements * Coordinate troubleshooting and resolution of issues * Collaborate with delivery team and business stakeholders to design robust and reusable solutions, as well as facilitate the translation to technical designs * Collaborate and influence proactive system monitoring practices and strategies to help identify issues prior to customer impact * Promote a mindset and culture within the team that embraces identifying, owning, and solving issues, driving quality, improving performance, and improving the customer experience * Estimate delivery effort, as well as effectively identify and prioritize high-value deliverables * Assist in story definition, evaluation, translation, and business requirements gathering from product owners and business stakeholders * Communicate effectively with peers and subordinates to drive efficient team delivery * Collaborate in continuous planning with business stakeholders and other technology team leaders to ensure a successful delivery plan is available for business priorities * Mentor software engineers and lead software engineering code quality and best practices (e.g., test best practices, design patterns, code smells, etc.) Required Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or closely related technical discipline * 8+ years of experience with Java * 8+ years of experience with unit testing, integration testing, and UI testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Spock, Jasmine, Selenium, etc.) as part of software testing automation * 8+ years of experience working with, and contributing to, the design of complex technical architectures in resilient and high-scalability environments * 6+ years of experience with application persistence layers and related design choices (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, etc.) * 4+ years of experience implementing or contributing to optimizing modern agile delivery processes (e.g., SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) * 4+ years of experience using Git source control Preferred Qualifications * 2+ years of Technical Management experience Thanks & Regards Syam B, 630-923-6952 syam@thoughtwavesoft.com