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About PEARSON

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with over 41,000 people in more than 70 countries, helping people of all ages to make progress in their lives through all kinds of learning.

Pearson 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.

We are Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months.  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.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

Technical Lead (.NET)

Will play a key role in the development and implementation of complex, multi-tiered and distributed Web based software applications. Should provide leadership and guidance to the team members on aspects of design and development on software development efforts. Has to be a representative for the proper adoption of software development methods and technologies. Will be required to work with dynamic teams that are driven by project delivery goals by holding the accountability. Should possess the drive to learn and continuously improve on work performances. Helps and guides software engineers in making the right decisions and be accountable for them.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum six (6) years of experience in software engineering and design including  1-2 years of as a Technical Lead.
• Bachelors degree in Computing, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent.
• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact with prompt and professionalism to the teams across different time zones.
• Good experience in OOP, Analysis & Design, Architectural & Design Patterns, UML, Unit Testing.
• Experience in Agile software development practices such as SCRUM & TDD will be an advantage.
• Experience in building, packaging & deployment tools, web & application servers and database technologies.
• In addition to the above mentioned experience, qualifications & skills, the individual should possess technology specific skills pertaining to one of the following specializations as mentioned below.

.NET Specialization ( x positions )

•  .NET Framework Fundamentals | C# | ASP.NET
• HTML, JavaScript, CSS | JavaScript Frameworks (eg:- JQuery / Dojo / easyXDM)
• HTTP / WCF Web Services (eg:- SOAP / REST)
• Data Layer Architectures and Frameworks (eg:- iBatis / nHibernate)
• MSSQL Server & other Database Technologies
• Unit testing & test automation frameworks (eg:- NUnit / Selenium)

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