Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

Application Engineering Technical Lead II (The Vanguard Group / Malvern, PA) Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms; develop and support AWS cloud infrastructure; create Web Applications using Java or Python Web Framework; develop new micro services components using Angular, Spring Boot or Python; deploy and run serverless code using AWS Lambda functions or ECS Fargate; provide technical expertise and complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities; ensure viability of IT deliverables; recommend development options and approve team's technical deliverables; conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security; identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members; elevate complex technical issues to IT experts; resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients; respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner; research issues and perform root cause analysis; anticipate technology problems and prevent them; communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications; evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas; maintain current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards; mentor IT staff and identify training needs; as new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members; review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members; write documentation, including technical standards and processes; identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies; participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues; participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings; present technical status and issues at milestone reviews; utilize thorough understanding and compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verify that deliverables meet requirements; participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned; mentor junior developers. Requires Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related IT field and five years of experience in job offered or in IT positions including Technology Lead and/or Java Integration Developer. Background in education, training or experience must include expertise in languages including Java 8 and Python; experience in developing RESTful API; experience developing microservices; experience working on SQL languages including PostgreSQL or Oracle; good exposure to DevOps tools used for CICD including Jenkins/Git/Bamboo/Artifactory; good exposure to AWS cloud services including ECS, Lambda, S3, EC2, CloudFormation, Secret Manager, IAM roles; experience in developing web application using Angular, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript; experience with scripting languages including Groovy, Shell or Windows Batch Scripts. Company operates on hybrid model with three days in office and work-from-home available two days.