Senior Front End Developer Lead

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Location: Atlanta
Status: Contract
Compensation: Submit Competitive Rate
Education Level: Not Specified

Financial Powerhouse is seeking a Senior Front End Developer Lead for a 5+ month contract to hire position in Atlanta, GA. The.NET Development Team Lead coordinates and manages a team of development resources to enforce process and review output of developers to ensure predictability and quality of deliverables. The Front End Team Lead will have full responsibility for the user interface along with all code that drives it.

Essential Functions of the Job:
  • Develop and deliver technical systems.
  • Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
  • Participate in the development and review of documents to comply with SDLC methodologies [eg Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimation, Solution Design Document (SDD) and Software Architecture Documents (SAD)).
  • Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production where necessary.
  • Adhere to Application Engineering methodologies, standards, code reviews.
  • Provide feedback regarding application engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices when appropriate.
  • Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify project leadership of situation and remediation plan.
  • Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects.
  • Technical deliverables (ie, code and documentation) on projects assigned.
  • Translate detailed Requirements and Design and Solution Architecture deliverables into detailed design specifications.
  • Maintain effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers, the leadership team and the peers in other IT groups.
  • Proactively raise issues to Technical and Group Leads when necessary.
  • Produce high quality application engineering deliverables in accordance with the project timeline.
  • Build and unit test a project to detailed design specifications.
  • Thought leadership and technical guidance to engineering staff.
  • Application Development Work breakdown structure.
  • Solutions Design Documents.
  • Release Packages.
  • Hand-over documentation for operations.
  • Unit Test Scripts.
  • Assignment of tasks to developers.
  • Review of code completed.
  • Review performance of developers.
  • Make assessments of contractor abilities.
  • Manage the training and development of staff members to develop their skills and maintain industry-leading knowledge in their areas of responsibility.
  • Proactively identify and address application engineering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
  • Proactively anticipate project issues before they occur; define the problem; identify possible causes; work with team to identify solutions; select and implement most appropriate solution.
  • Apply judgment in implementing Application Engineering methodologies, processes, and practices to specific requirements of projects/programs which may include product design engineering, information security, code maintainability and reliability.
  • Sound analytical skills and problem solving skills needed to manage multiple technical challenges simultaneously per each project assigned when needed.
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience.
  • Ability to lead and task manage software engineers and provide appropriate level of guidance and oversight to ensure delivery of engineering deliverables.
  • At least 7 years of relevant work experience with a concentration in Front End design and development.
  • 7+ years of HTML experience.
  • 5-7 years of client side JavaScript experience.
  • 5-7 years of CSS experience.
  • 4+ years of jQuery experience.
  • 1+ years of JSON experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with Adobe Photoshop or Paint.NET.
  • 4+ years of experience with design mockup tools such as Balsamiq, Axure RP, HotGloo.
  • 4+ years of ASP.NET experience.
  • 2-4 years of ASP.NET MVC experience.
  • 1+ years of experience with Object-Relational Mappers such as Entity Framework or NHibernate.
  • 5-7 years of experience of working with web applications that has a SQL Server Back End.
  • 4+ years of experience working on N-Tier'd applications.
  • A firm grasp of design concepts such as Responsive Design, Progressive Enhancement, Adaptive Rendering, and Minimal Download Strategy.
  • Strong understanding on client side performance optimization techniques.
  • Experience working in Agile Development Methodologies and frameworks such as SCRUM.
  • 1-3 years of experience with Team Foundation Server.
  • Skilled with developing and maintaining an engineering task plan for an engineering team.
  • Demonstrated ability to appropriately use proper configuration management disciplines for a large engineering team.
  • Strong Object Oriented Design skills and ability to articulate designs using UML diagrams.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Demonstrated experience working for large organizations on complex projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships.
  • Proven ability to facilitate change management with teams.
  • Experience in the full project and delivery life cycles - from planning to delivery, implementation and completion/handover.
  • Good negotiation and resolution skills.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
  • Positive team player, willing to share knowledge.
  • Commitment to learning and self-improvement.
  • Ability to work within diverse, global, virtual teams.
  • Due to the nature of the effort travel may be required.
  • Self-driven to stay abreast of current technology trends.
  • Proven ability to thrive under pressure.
Additional desirable skills (optional) are the following:
  • HTML5.
  • CoffeeScript.
  • RESTful Services.
  • .Net MVC 4.
  • .Net MVC 4 Web API.
  • JSON.
  • jQuery Mobile.
  • SharePoint Branding Experience.
  • Designed/Developed Mobile optimized user interfaces for web sites or web applications.
Application Requirements
  • Client will only consider local candidates.
  • Client will not accept subcontractors
Required Qualifications:
  • ASP.NET
  • Photoshop
  • jQuery
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL Server
  • Javascript
  • Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • CSS
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • JSON
  • nHibernate
  • HTML
Benefits/Perks
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
  • Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses
About MATRIX
Whatever your career destination, we're how you get there. For more than 27 years, MATRIX has placed talented contract and permanent IT professionals like yourself at thousands of top-notch organizations throughout the U.S., ranging from Fortune 50 to small IT shops across all industries.

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Start date
n.a
Duration
5+ month
(extension possible)
From
MATRIX Resources, Inc.
Published at
18.10.2012
Project ID:
435730
Contract type
Freelance
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