The Lead Software Developer will manage a team of developers to complete a project to the satisfaction of the stakeholders. They should have a background in leading and mentoring a team in an Agile environment. They should also have experience in creating user stories, tasks, and estimates. The Lead Software Developer should possess a strong passion for coding and creating a quality product that meets and exceeds the needs of the business. The expectation of this position is that the majority of the time should be actively writing code and so a strong understanding of design patterns, architecture, and creating testable code is required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Lead a team through the complete SDLC. This includes sprint planning, code reviews, and meeting with the business stake holders.
2. Work with the BA in customer meetings to get requirements and provide feedback as the subject matter expert
3. Be able to lead and plan both stories within a sprint and sprints to a release
4. Lead a team of 1-5 developers to the completion of the project while adhering to the design principals and architecture
5. Work with business and management to ensure product is tested thoroughly
6. Be able to architect solutions that meet the requirements without being unnecessarily complex
7. Translate business and design goals into usable products.
8. Mentor more junior developers and complete quarterly reviews for everyone on the team
9. Ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work in a fast paced environment

Required Skills Required Experience

1. Must be self-motivated, decisive, ambitious, have high personal ethics and a willingness to take personal responsibility for the applications they develop.
2. Must be able to develop professional and personal relationships with co-workers and end-users and must be a positive people-oriented person with excellent oral and written communication skills and a demonstrated ability to lead a team and a project.
3. Understand and speak to all aspects of the software development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and associated execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Iterative Development, etc.).
4. Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent.
5. History of leading a team of developers to the completion of a project.
6. At least 6 years of software design/development experience.
7. Experience developing applications using ASP.NET, WCF, WF, C#, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, and JavaScript.
8. Experience with XML and Web Services
9. Experience with Entity Framework, Views, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions, SSIS, T-SQL and Database Security.
10. Experience with Business Intelligence Tools and Data Warehouse design (especially SAP Business Objects, Crystal Reports) would be a plus.
11. Experience with SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and MS Office integration would be a plus.
12. Experience with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne would be a plus.
13. Experience with K2 Blackpearl would be a plus.