Lead Application Developer

Spencer Stuart is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms, placing C-Level and Board of Directors in the most successful companies across the globe.

The Systems Department of Spencer Stuart, a leading international management consulting firm specializing in senior-level executive search, is seeking an applications developer lead who has extensive experience working with ASP.NET, C#, SQL, and other web-based technologies to aid our ongoing effort in the area of new/existing development for a globally distributed applications environment. This person must be detail oriented and have the skills necessary to lead a team. Candidate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment driving standards, processes and technology to ensure successful delivery of applications.

* Contributing to a healthy, collaborative development environment. * Multi tasking and managing tasks across several projects simultaneously to meet several deadlines. * Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

* 8+ years of software development experience required. * 5+ years of JavaScript Development required. * 5+ years of SQL Server experience required. * Self starter * Team player * Excellent analytical skills and attention to details **Mandatory Qualifications** * Expertise in developing with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JQuery. * JSON/XML serialization and deserialization techniques * A fundamental understanding of object-oriented design and programming (OOD/OOP). * .NET 4.0 / WCF / Soap / Rest / Web API * ASP.NET MVC. Helpers, HttpModules, ActionFilters, Dependency Resolver etc. * Agile, Test Driven development practice * Strong enthusiasm for the performance of timely and high quality work * Strong sense of urgency in order to provide our business stakeholders with a high quality of service/support **Desired Qualifications** * Telerik Controls * Dependency Injection, IOC Framework (Ninject, Windsor Castle, etc.) * Unit test (nunit, qunit, etc.) * Mocking Framework (Rhino Mocks, Moq, etc.) * WS-*, STS, OAuth * Financial applications experience. **Leadership** * Aspires to technical leadership * Prior experience managing team size of 4-6 employees * Prior experience managing both full-time and contract employees * Ability to manage conflict, provide strategic direction and drive business results by managing the performance of staff members * Ability to employ and enforce Scrum methodologies in a disciplined fashion **Responsibilities** * Assist Application Development Manager in leading delivery and process improvement projects as directed (20%-30%) * Design and development of deliverables on time, and to required quality (70%-80%) * Ensure the quality of delivered software through maintenance of unit tests, continuous integration, completion of design, and code reviews. * Scoping and estimation of development tasks. * Work with Business Analysts & UX in defining requirements and prototyping solutions. * Work with the Test team in resolving quality issues and supporting the test cycle.