Innovative Engineering Leader Wanted

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and confident Engineering Leader to join our team. The role requires a professional with full product lifecycle capabilities, who can take our existing platform to the next level by building cutting-edge solutions for our customers.

The platform is the core part of our embedded analytics solution, which enables our partners and customers to derive substantial value from a SaaS-based engagement.

This is a challenging opportunity for a skilled individual who can create technical task lists, provide guidance to the team, and enforce engineering standards and best practices.

Main Responsibilities:

• Create detailed technical task lists, provide technical guidance to the team, and enforce Digital Harbor standards and best practices

• Devise innovative approaches for delivering tailored solutions leveraging advanced domain knowledge, technology competency, and industry exposure.

• Establish & develop strong professional relationships with Product Management, Analytics, and Technology groups and acts as the Engineering anchor.

• Collaborate with technical developers; review deliverables for accuracy, quality, application performance, and completeness.

• Provides in-depth and sophisticated analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• Create/enhance reusable assets & frameworks.

• Develop prototypes to demonstrate illustrate the use of new technologies within our Products.

• Contribution to the strategic vision of Digital Harbor's Platform product.

• Leading Engineering team by providing strong technical leadership and guidance.

Requirements:

• MUST demonstrate a history of successfully building functionally rich, high-performance, scalable, and multi-tenant platforms.

• Solid experience in building secure platforms.

• A substantial track record of success in bringing innovative software products to market is a MUST.

• Very strong background in Java technologies.

• Understands platform, challenges in platform development, and a proven capability to articulate platform-level abstractions from user requirements.

• Capability to do a SWOT on internal tools and 3rd party tools and provide a clear decision in terms of the approach.

• Ability to maintain 'big picture' focus and lead engineering in a rapidly evolving technology marketplace.

• Enterprise platform experience with preferably both thin and thick client experience.

• Has a passion for building applications that are sensitive to memory, bandwidth, latency, and tough performance constraints. Has relevant metrics to talk about it.

• Work and collaborate with a talented team in a highly agile Scrum environment.

• Deeply conversant in technologies like Java/J2ee, JavaScript, XML, DOM/SAX Parsers, Swings, HTML, CSS, HTTP/s, C++, Jboss, JSP, EJB 2.0, Struts 2.0, Servlets, Kodo (ORM), JMS, RMI, Quartz, ANT, drools, various file systems, XML, DB (SQL, Oracle, DB2), DMS, Web Services, LDAP integration.

• Has built or integrated tools like Document Management System, Workflow management, Offline Capability, Integration frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of SQL, Relational databases, and Data Modeling. Knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant designs.

• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communications skills for technical audiences; able to explain and drive technical solutions to technical teams; highly persuasive, Outstanding leadership and team-building skills.

• Good planning and organizational skills, with self-initiative and direction. Has AGILE experience.

Desired Soft Skills:

• Passion to work for small and high growth Organizations.

• Self-starter who is hungry to take on new professional challenges and looking for roles with enormous growth potential.

• Self-motivated and believes in getting things done.

• Reliable, Trustworthy, and possesses Professional Integrity.

• Stable job history; Startup/entrepreneurial experience a real plus.