Director - Technology - Java CMS

The Director, Technology has high-level responsibility for understanding, planning, and leading the delivery of Technology solutions on client projects. This individual should assume the role of the client’s trusted adviser on technology-related topics including technology strategy, trends and best practices. For both clients and project teams, we expect the Director, Technology to frame the business value from technology initiatives and articulate this value to meet the client’s business goals and objectives.

Job Description:

- The Director will work with other local Technology leadership within their business unit to mentor, coach and guide Associate through Sr. Manager, Technology people.

- Utilizes OO design principles in creating complex custom software solutions or modifying package solutions. Identifies the limits of the tools being used and recommends. Identifies the design vs. implementation tradeoffs with the tools being used. Translates the impact of design on scalability, performance, etc. into the project. Leads a team of Company and client people in business and technical designs of a module. Manages dependencies across other modules

- Translates the client’s business requirements into a component design. Challenges business design and creates alternative business design solutions that take into account available commercial packages

- Sets standards for the team. Coaches Associates, Sr. Associates, Managers, and Sr. Managers, Technology on the team.

- Leverages their knowledge of the stages of the One Team Approach. Utilizes the deliverables from other disciplines and OTA phases. Plans and drives: bus design, tech design, development, stabilization, pilot, parallel, production tracks, cut-over, and support

- Promotes the value of project processes and establishes these processes on a new project. Educates and ensures that team follows processes. Defines and assesses completeness of work

- Reviews other’s estimates and points out holes. Assesses how project risks will impact estimates

- Works with the client and delivery teams and takes on a “hands-on” approach to identify and suggest approaches to resolve any technical issues as they arise. Proactively suggests tools and best practices to prevent such issues.

- Mentors other Associates, Sr. Associates, Managers, and Sr. Managers on the team

- Communicates difficult scenarios to the client. Facilitates workshops and meetings with the client

- Participates in extending knowledge of their area of specialization within Company. Guides a team in using their area of expertise. Reviews implementation models and recommends pros/cons of different approaches.

- Participates in accumulating and disseminating specialty Best Practices. Attends marketing shows and events and can evaluate vendors and influence Company’s technology investment. Applies vendors application programming model and Company’s position on it

- Participates in accumulating and disseminating specialty Best Practices.

- Attends marketing shows and events and can evaluate vendors and influence Company’s technology investment. Applies vendors application programming model and Company’s position on it

Desired Skills and Experience:

- 12 - 14 years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design, and Architecture experience

- Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred. Certification within their area of specialization is required.

- Overall 12 to 14 years of experience with 3+ years of content management experience with one or more CMS packages like Interwoven Teamsite, Vignette CMS, OpenText or Stellent.

- Deep understanding of CMS concepts

- Mastery of all core web technologies including, XHTML, client/server-side scripting languages such as Javascript, and JSP, and web services development using mRESTful implementations

- Deep understanding of Java, Java EE, Servlets, JSP , Tag libraries and JSTL skills,combined with a solid understanding of Enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.

- Expert in end-to-end content lifecycle, web content management, content publishing deployment, and delivery processes.

- Understanding of LDAP concepts

- Experience in sizing & performance optimization

- Build/deployment & Continuous Integration experience

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