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Technical Lead (Java)

Pearson PLC is the world’s leading learning company that owns brands such as Financial Times, Penguin and Pearson Education with overall revenue of over $9.4 B in 2011. Pearson has over 40,000 employees working out of offices in over 70 countries.

Pearson Lanka is a leading provider of software development and remote infrastructure management services to multiple technology groups across Pearson. The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 150+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America, Europe and Australia.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Listed below are the typical duties and responsibilities expected of an individual for the job title described in this document. The items specified below are a guideline of the minimum expectations for the job title; changes will be made on a case-by-case basis for individuals who show potential to take on more responsibilities.

Other duties may be assigned time to time.

Overall Responsibilities:

·           Function in a project team setting. A typical team will comprise of project managers, developers, quality assurance and database administrators.

·           Responsible for design details under direction from Architect or Architect Delegate and clearly understand and defend trade-offs made.

·           Responsible for the following activities to the team leadership

·           Provide inputs for estimation and planning

·           Raise risks/issues well before hand

·           Regular progress updates

·           Review all team deliverables for conformity to quality and standards *

·           Provide leadership to technical resources to meet project deadlines and ensure project objective are met

·           Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact with prompt and professionalism to the teams across different time zones.

·           Ensure that code artifacts produced are of the highest quality, conforming to set or agreed upon standard. Should advocate such consistency to all members of the team.

·           Able to work with feature development and maintenance teams and contribute gathered knowledge when requested to do so.

·           Follows the Pearson processes, agile practices and motivates his/her team members to do so.

·           Makes optimum utilization of engineering tools and technologies to maintain a high productivity level in the team

·           Participation in regular performance review cycles. - take it to managerial part

·           Align self to organisational goals

·           Is able to accept project delivery responsibilities and demonstrate accountability to leadership.

·           Is able to build competencies in product and technology domain to set expectations.

MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Includes people, process, or functions.

This position has managerial responsibilities if the individual is a reporting manager.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent experience required. Minimumfour (4) years of experience in software engineering and design and two (2) years of additional experience as a Technical Lead.

Java Specialization

·           Strong hands on experience with the following technologies:

·           HTML

·           JSP with JSTL

·           JSF

·           XML

·           JavaScript and jQuery

·           RESTful and/or SOAP web services

·           Servlets

·           Core Java

·           EJB 3

·           Struts

·           Spring

·           Hibernate

·           JDBC

·           JUnit

·           Ant or Maven

·           Oracle or SQL Server

·           Strong hands on experience in J2EE/JEE platform together with one or more web/application servers. e.g.: WebSphere, WebLogic, GlassFish, JBoss etc.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

·           Certifications in C#, Java or PHP

·           Certifications in UML

·           Oracle Certification for java (formally sun certification for java)

·           Zend CertifiedEngineer (ZCE)

·           Microsoft Certifications (MCPD/MCAD/MCSD)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS and WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is located within an office environment and consists of many hours sitting at a computer in a cubicle setting.