Job Description
The Technical Prime role within the IT/BRS organization is a highly specialized role to support design and delivery of different initiatives in the BRS Ordering, Internet and TV system domains. The Technical Prime is involved in every phase of the projects, as well as in hardware / software / network upgrades and production issue investigations.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead and coordinate design, development (including code reviews), testing and deployment activities, working closely with multiple vendors
- Determine technical feasibility and perform analysis and evaluation of proposed solutions
- Improve business and software operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes
- Review vendor assessments
- Perform capacity planning and coordinate performance testing accordingly
- Oversee and assist the vendors and project teams in all test phases (system testing, functional testing etc.)
- Participate in deployment strategy development with the Deployment primes
- Build executive presentations and communicate release changes (technical) to the support teams
- Occasional assistance to the production support teams to resolve production issues
Qualifications/Competencies
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar
- 7+ years experience in web application development and/or architecture using Java technologies
- Strong hands-on experience with API development, consumption and business models
- Strong development experience using Apache Kafka
- Proficient in SQL/NoSQL and other query languages.
- Experience with DevOps methods and technologies: CI/CD, Automation, (Git, Jenkins, Gradle, etc.)
- Knowledge of modern architecture design concepts including Microservices, Domain Driven Design, Event Stream Processing
- Knowledge of cloud/container platforms (OpenStack, AWS, GCP, OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Certification in IT professional programs an asset
- SAFe Agile course completion and/or certification preferred
Skills
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent ability to articulate ideas and influence vendors at design
- Excellent ability to articulate technical problems to non-technical audience
- Autonomous, tolerance to a fast paced, fast changing environment
- Strong team player; ability to facilitate, negotiate and work within a multi-domain team environment
- Ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies, languages, frameworks and tools
- Creativity and ingenuity