Senior Digital Tech Lead

Job Title: Senior Digital Teach Lead

Department:  Customer Service

Reports to: Senior Manager - Digital Applications
Location: In Office,  Orange CT, Boston MA

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $131,483 - $164,354

The lead role brings together the strategic leadership of a Senior IT Lead/Senior Architect with the hands-on technical responsibilities of a Senior Digital Tech Lead. This professional is responsible for end-to-end application design and delivery, as well as the maintenance, development, and implementation of Digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities 

 Strategic Leadership:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for software engineers, focusing on technical architecture, design, development, and successful delivery.

• Act as a liaison between the customer community and the software development team for effective communication and understanding of requirements.

• Define high-level application platform architectural guidelines, making strategic choices and articulating trade-offs to business owners.

• Displays outward thinking, develops strategies for the full software development life cycle of new and emerging technologies, and demonstrates the viability.

• Technical mentoring to improve the analytical and technical skills of team members.

Technical Analysis and Implementation:

• Remain up-to-date with coding best practices for scaling Single Page Applications and Mobile technologies.

• Review and recommend partners, vendors, and emerging technologies. Lead technical relationship with Digital partners & vendors.

• Lead various Digital projects, providing technical support and guidance.

• Lead interface with various internal and external IT teams 

• Collaborate with team members and business partners to innovate and evolve functionality and design.

• Design and build advanced applications based on UX designs, implementing user interface designs provided by the UX team.

Development and Delivery:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver products based on best practices.

• Partner with Scrum Masters, Project Manager, Business Analysts & SMEs and Product Owners on Agile and Scrum principles and ways of working

• Unit-test code for robustness, usability, and reliability.

• Work on bug fixing and continuous improvement of applications based on metrics.

Technology Expertise:

• Strong experience with Angular 12+ framework, CSS, SCSS, HTML5, and user interface frameworks.

• Experience with Native Mobile Apps programming for iOS development (Swift/objective-c) and Android development (java and Kotlin).

• Proficiency in user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design principles ensures visually appealing and user-friendly apps. 

• Expertise in Angular UI frameworks like Material, PrimeNG, layout, Networking, Persistency, Performance, Concurrency, Offline Storage, and Security.

• Advanced or expert-level experience with Java 8 and above JDK libraries.

• Experience with Spring Boot Framework and other Microservices frameworks and orchestration platforms.

Technical Documentation and Communication:

• Develop, maintain, and update system design documentation, including functional/technical documents, solution architecture documents, and data flow diagrams.

• Demonstrate strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of experience as a Senior Solutions Architect.

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and integrating solutions. 

• 10+ years of IT experience in web and mobile app design, development, testing, and support.

• TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture certification (Should be a Plus)

• Significant technical experience as a software developer, software development lead, technical lead, technical architect, or related role

• Strong knowledge of designing architectural solutions.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Knowledge of application development lifecycle, API best practices, and DevOps

• Possesses motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environ