Technical Lead

Job Description

The role involves working with global project delivery teams and customers in an international environment, and this brings a requirement for travel for short periods. Another element of the role will involve structured testing, root cause analysis of defects and debugging. The right candidate must be equipped with the ability to collaborate and work as part of an international team, and so must have excellent communication skills. The working environment is a fast paced project environment, so the right candidate will be cost sensitive, driven, but always quality and customer focused.

Excellent communication and coordination skills are key for this position. The role requires leading RA internal development teams, being responsible for the overall technical solution architecture and supporting the customer (on-site) in defining and implementing the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Typically possesses broad application/technical knowledge relevant to assigned business team.

• Must be able to work in a stressful environment where constructive feedback from others is encouraged.

• Must have excellent conflict resolution skills.

• Must be available and willing to work overtime, weekends and holidays to meet customer project commitments.

• Must perform duties in the office or outside the office as part of a project team.

• Must be able and willing to travel and work at customer sites (~ 20% of working time)

Functional

• Provides updates to project manager pertaining to status of activities, performance to schedule and performance to budget for self and other less-experienced engineers.

• May participate in proposal development activities.

• Performs detailed system design, implementation and start-up.

Interpersonal

• May serve as the primary interface with the customer for assigned projects

• Supports an environment conducive to successful team interaction

• Interacts with Project Management

• Obtains product technical information from other business units of RA as required

Leadership

• May lead project teams typically employing 1-10 engineering professionals that may be globally distributed.

• Coaches and mentors less-experienced engineers assigned to projects.

• May lead contractors on project assignments.

Business

• Leads technical execution of complex projects

• Responsible for meeting project schedule, engineering budgets, and customer satisfaction targets.

• Builds partnerships at a technical level of customer counterparts.

• Must be commercially aware of the impact to the business of selecting and developing the project design and implementation

• May present and develop technical aspects of sales proposals to customers.

• Responsible for following all applicable corporate, company, governmental and regulatory policies and procedures as appropriate for this position.

• Responsible for delivering projects that meet the quality systems of the customer and the business unit

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering discipline or equivalent knowledge.

• Excellent German and English language skills (verbal and written).

• 2 – 5 years’ experience in a technical position or developer position in a distributed team.

• Excellent understanding and experience in object oriented programming in Java, JAVA development, JAVA Framework, J2EE App Server (preferably JBoss or WebSphere).

• Relational database experience (preferably MS SQL Server or ORACLE).

• Experience in distributed software development and configuration management using CVS, Subversion or Bitbucket/Git.

• Excellent knowledge of software design, development and test methodologies essential.

• Willingness for global travel – approx. 20% of working time.

• First experience in managing and leading global development teams as being the technical responsible working hand in hand with the project manager.