6-12+ Month Contract Position
Location - Oak Brook, IL (4 days a week onsite)
As an ideal candidate, you will need to understand large-scale distributed systems (cloud-based environments) and have a proven track record of taking ownership of projects, development processes, and best practices, for the overall benefit of the team and organization. In addition, You need to utilize your in-depth knowledge of delivering complex services and expertise in hands-on software development to create an engineering environment that embodies the best development and testing practices for delivering a high-quality service. You think strategically about the architecture and design of software systems that span multiple products. You can critically evaluate technical trade-offs of contending designs and implementations and are able to clearly communicate these to various stakeholders. You will ensure the delivery of quality solutions, and you will train and mentor junior members about best practices of software development methodology and frameworks in areas including web, mobile, use of backend APIs and services, usability and quality testing. This individual will also be expected to work closely with business and technology leadership to influence, refine and communicate out platform strategies to the broader team.
Essential Job Functions:
• Design and drive internal methodologies and process improvements shaping the engineering organization into a world class team utilizing best in class practices and technologies. Key processes
include:
o Agile (Scrum)
o Cross-domain E2E design and implementation of complex features
o Continuous Integration and Delivery (DevOps)
o Software maturity and quality
o Versioning and Scope control
o Unit testing, code analysis
o Application security design and testing
• Professional experience building and leading teams that built distributed scalable enterprise-class web/mobile applications with a few of the following technologies: NodeJS, HTML5, DHTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript Frameworks (Vue, Angular, Bootstrap, React, Cordova, etc.), MongoDB.
• Domain knowledge and experience in application development, including: client/server, web services, portal, middleware, micro services and mobile app.
• Must be capable of clearly articulating complex technical issues to all levels of the organization.
• Review and approve project deliverables to ensure that they are architecturally sound and fit into the enterprise design
• Enforce quality practices (unit test, code analysis, integration test, etc.) and provide quality measurements to leadership team. Drive quality initiatives within design and development phases
• Provide direction, guidance, and promote growth of DevOps function within the company
• Manage scope and delivery expectations with business partners and communicates status and big picture to the leadership team. Remove obstacles, close gaps and manage and mitigate risks.
• Partner closely with business and enterprise architecture teams to ensure application design and implementation meets requirements, technical roadmap and business direction
• Provide oversight and direction for the design, implementation, timely release and maintenance of products that meet customer expectations and high standards for quality, stability and performance
Minimum Qualification:
• 10+ years overall IT system architecture, design, development, deployment experience.
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years Full-stack development with relevant Node.JS, VueJS or Angular or React JS experience.
• Experience in developing software using agile methodologies.
• Solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as : NodeJS, AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS, Cordova/Ionic, Docker, REST, JSON, XML, HTML / HTML5, CSS, NoSQL, Maven, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure etc.
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Experience developing containerized applications using AWS, Docker.
• Flexible and adaptable attitude, disciplined to manage multiple responsibilities and adjust to varied environments.
• Solid knowledge and experience in CI/CD tools and DevOps principles.
• Effective leader with exceptional interpersonal & communication skills and strong experience with talent development
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Must be capable of clearly articulating complex technical issues to all levels of the organization.
• Solid experience with web services, system integration and service-oriented architecture.
• Flexible and adaptable attitude, disciplined to manage multiple responsibilities and adjust to varied environments.
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.)
The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($60-$75/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.