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.