Lead Software Engineer

Company: Clarivate Analytics
Location: Philadelphia
Posted on: April 18, 2024

Job Description:

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team. - You will be act as the go-to person and subject matter expert for individual products or specific technologies in their domain. - -You will drive the definition, architecture, agreement, and implementation of technology strategy. - You will also make appropriate use of industry and corporate standards and best practice. - - If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, then we would love to talk to you! About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience
• 7 + years of experience working as a software engineer developing commercial software -
• 3 + years of experience with common programming languages including Java
• 3 + years of experience working with any of one the RDBMS (MySQL/SQL -Server/Oracle/PostgreSQL)
• 3 + years of experience working with XML, HTML, XSLT, Unicode, DTDs, XML Schema, XQuery, XPath, PDF, TIFF and similar formats It would be great if you also had...
  • Master's degree
  • 5 + years in leading / managing software engineering teams
  • 3 + years of experience working in Agile Development (Scrum)
  • 3 + years of experience in a SaaS delivery model
  • Experience with current JavaScript frameworks, particularly Angular)
  • Experience in ETL Development tool (Talend or Pentaho)
  • Experience with Big Data technologies (Spark, EMR, Hive)
  • Experience building Microservices, SOAP, REST Services (Java/NodeJS)
  • Working experience in AWS Environment
  • Working knowledge of Messaging (AMQ, JMS)
  • Be able to implement and guide teams through test-based development
  • Understanding of ML, NLP, including entity extraction, data mining, sentiment analysis, content summarization and other data science techniques desirable
  • Proven track record in effectively leading and managing teams to produce on-time, high-quality deliverables with a high level of customer satisfaction What will you be doing in this role?
    • Leads technical teams and focal point for development issues across a development-wide program
    • Line manager of Development Team Leaders, Developers and other technical roles
    • Main point of contact for business and content operations leadership. Work closely with business, product and content operations managers across multiple business unit domains
    • Responsible for software delivery of multiple engineering teams typically consisting 5+ engineers
    • Oversee the designs and may develop prototype/actual code
    • Responsible for reviewing requirements, and the design, implementation, and unit testing for their teams
    • Responsible for communicating accurately the status of ongoing work to stakeholders. - Will present status updates to project management and senior leaders
    • Attends project planning sessions with Product Owners, Content Owners and Business Analysts to analyze requirements
    • Ensures teams develop modules using disciplined processes, adhering to industry standards and best practice guidelines
    • Ensures teams carry out unit and other testing, ensuring application meets needs of client and business
    • Provides assistance in researching and adopting new and emerging technologies, evaluating new tools, technologies and platforms to be included in projects
    • May have cost responsibility for own team/project, and/or contribute to forecasting budgets and recommending expenditure without being fully accountable for them
    • Identifies ways to improve the operation of own area and to achieve efficiencies and results and assists in process improvement
    • Leads and manages their teams including supporting career development of teams' members (objective setting, performance management, talent management, etc.) - About the Team You will be part of the Academic and Government segment supporting ingestion, enrichment, and delivery of content for products such as Web of Science and Incites. -We build UI workbenches for Content Operations enrichment as well as work with Data Science team on automation of content processes. -Our newest projects use Java Spring boot, Angular, and Postgres DB. -We also have teams that support large scale data delivery using Scala, Hive and AWS EMR. - Our primary stakeholders are the application product managers and the content operations managers. We also collaborate with Web of Science Editorial team as well as other A&G product technology teams. - The projects range from small enhancements to multi team feature deliveries. - You will be managing 2-4 teams and their size ranges from 4 to 10 engineers. - The teams consist of our journal citation reference management team, large scale big data delivery team and our legacy content management system that supports all three business segments. Hours of Work
      • Full time, permanent
      • Although duties are typically performed during normal business hours, occasional off-hours may be required Clarivate is an Equal Opportunity Employer Vets/Minorities/Women/Disabled

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