Lead - Software Engineer ( Server ) - Chennai @ Tagit India

We are looking for highly talented, motivated and a driven individuals with sound knowledge and expertise in leading and managing development teams. You will be responsible for multi-faceted role, requiring technical leadership capability to mentor team to design, develop, test, document, deploy support high quality web applications like online communities, e-commerce solutions, content management systems and portals using Java, J2EE, JSP and Struts etc.

What you will be doing

• Understanding and implementing of project management practices

• Managing and delivery of projects from conceptualization, visualization to technology mapping and final execution of projects

• Managing Project scope and change requests (CR)

• Interact with the client to create technology specifications from business requirements for modules within the project.

• Guiding the team in defining technical architecture of their projects, including working with them to finalize the DB schema.

• Formulates strategies and methods in coordination with the Architect to gather functional requirements and capture them in standard notations like use cases.

• Planning and allocating work to the team.

• Monitoring development activities and reporting project progress

• Managing, mentoring and providing technical guidance/support to project teams

• Liaison with project team and delivering projects as per scheduled milestones (risk/quality/time)

• Review/Improve upon current processes/methodologies.

• Improve the technical competence of the team through training development of existing and new team members.

What you will bring along

• Minimum 10+ years of experience and should have experience in leading teams

• Solid Programming Experience in following technologies

• Core Java 8 , JSP , Servlets,

• Design Patterns / Architectural Principles like SOLID, GRASP etc

• Frameworks such as Spring

• Web Technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery

• Mark-up Languages such as XML and JSON

• Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL server, DB2

• Application Server: JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere

• Web Server: Apache HTTP, IBM HIS, WebLogic iPlanet, Apache Tomcat

• Experience with Technologies including Web Services, XML, SOAP

• Sound knowledge of core Java, patterns implementation and Security concepts

• Hands-on experience in developing banking applications

• Should have strong client handling experience

• Should have technical experience on developing applications on skill set mentioned above

• Should be capable of doing an impact analysis on applications when need arises

• Ensure the versioning of application and documents are controlled using open source tools;

• Identify, mitigate and escalate project risks (act as the escalation point for all such issues)

• Should be strong in coding and unit testing

• Good communication skills and should have ability to handle project independently and a team player