Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

As the Engineering Lead you will be expected to provide leadership and technical direction to a software development team for a component within a specified product domain.  In this role you will work with Architects to create and implement a long-term vision, orchestrate high-quality software implementation, maintain, guide, improve architectural integrity and evolution for assigned area.  You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality full stack solutions in a collaborative, agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of business areas: client management, candidate registrations and customer service. You will also be responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. Additionally, you should excel at fostering high team morale, mentorship and be comfortable coaching team members to ensure best practices and architectural guidelines are followed for their assigned area.  You will also be expected to continually contribute to process improvement activities.  

The Engineering Lead will:  

Work with Product Engineering Manager, Product Architect, and product managers to provide architecture solutions and leadership at the product component level.  You will oversee the implementation of software that achieves the goals of the architecture in their area. 

You will do this by contributing to the following breakdown of general responsibilities: 

70% Architecture & Development:  

• Create, document, implement, and oversee the long-term vision, architecture, and initiatives in their assigned area 



• Estimate software development requirements, propose alternatives and prioritize development tasks for a given project 



• Ensure high level requirements from project stakeholders are satisfied, complete and testable 



• Review code and documents for their assigned area to ensure designs and coding are holistic 



• Assess, oversee and deliver the technical delivery of high-quality projects and products 



• Design, code, maintain, and assess items in their assigned area taking into account performance, maintainability/complexity, market trends and innovation, controlling costs, system robustness and scalability, and long-term quality initiatives 



• Point person accountable for their assigned area that will capture, summarize, and escalate issues as necessary for resolution and awareness 

15% Engineering Leadership:  

• Strategic and tactical responsibility on a daily basis for developing and enhancing the technical architecture and projects of assigned area and ensuring user needs are met 



• Coordinate and unify the work of architects and team members through the software implementation process 



• Assist as necessary with defining roles and assigning workloads for their area of responsibility 



• Liaison for numerous functional areas within the organization 



• Provide technical mentoring to developers, senior developers and QE’s within a domain or project, or as assigned 



• Proactively design training opportunities that align with group goals 



• Induct new members for assigned projects 



• Proactively foster collaboration among technical teams             

5 %  Process and Quality Improvement Responsibility:  

• Participate in and initiate group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence 



• Participate in and monitor the effectiveness of requirements, design, code, unit test and QA test case reviews and inspections 



• Assess and oversee the technical delivery of projects to ensure best practices are followed 



• Report any potential opportunities regarding assigned domain, other domains, or client opportunities 

5 %  Defect and Backlog Review:  

• Triage, assign, and monitor new QA or pre-production defects and parking lot items. 



• Assist as required on urgent production defects 

5% Other duties as assigned  

Required Education and Experience:  

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline 



• 8+ years of relevant software development experience including creating business applications with relational database systems. Angular JS and .NET are required 



• Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS 



• Experience in OOAD, design patterns, and UML 



• 3+ years experience working with Azure



• 1+ years experience in software architecture 



• 2+ years experience in technical leadership 



• 5+ years experience in programmatic interaction with relational database systems 



• 4+ years production support experience 



• 4+ years Agile experience 

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:  

• Ability to understand the philosophy of architecture 



• Experience providing technical leadership to a team 



• Experience in creating design documents and performing code reviews 



• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools 



• Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications 



• Ability to think technically and analytically 



• Ability to lead and/or coordinate multiple projects, enhancements, defects or initiatives simultaneously 



• Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations 



• Must have strong time management and project management skills including the ability to work well under pressure, plan and set priorities, make decisions and set direction, adapt to change, and meet established timelines.  



• Ability to effectively manage, measure, and continuously improve working performance and quality of teams and individuals 



• Continuous expansion of knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools 



• Experience in application performance management and performance tuning  



• Enterprise knowledge of business and platforms across systems within our core technology service model 



• Must develop effective relationships with customers and work well within a team 



• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented 



• Must have a positive and energetic demeanor 



• Effective written and verbal communication skills 



• Creative problem-solving skills 



• Must have mentoring and training skills 

Experience with some or all of the following tools (Required):  

• .NET – C# (6+ years) 



• REST services (6+ years)



• SQL (5+ years) 



• Angular (4+ years) 



• Azure Cloud (3+ years)



• OOAD design 



• Agile development (2-3 years) 



• Design patterns 



• SOA 



• Gauge and Selenium 



• Splunk and New Relic 

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the worlds lifelong learning company. For us, learning isnt just what we do. Its who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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Job: Engineering

Job Family: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 23975