Position Details: Agile Consultant-GCP : IT Service Management Consulting

Description:

We are looking to hire a self-motivated & passionate Agile Technical Coach to work with application development teams and Technology Directors in providing coaching and training on the following:

- Lean design modeling for agile development (Activity, Communication, Class diagrams)

- Advanced object-oriented design and patterns (GoF, MVW, Enterprise Integration)

- Design and development principles (SOLID, FIRST, GRASP, DRY, etc.)

- Test driven development (Acceptance, unit, and legacy code)

- Professional software development behavior (pair programming, continuous integration, clean code, and refactoring)

- XP Practices and Behaviors - Offer training and customized hands-on demos and workshops on Pair/Mob programming, TDD, ATDD, CI, collective code ownership

- Legacy Code Refactoring - Coach teams to safely refactor dirty code.

- Agile Architecture Documentation workshops - Coach and teach how to retrospectively document the existing system and its architecture

- Continuous Delivery & DevOps

Qualifications:

- 8+ years of software development experience including, but not limited to, mature design, coding, testing and debugging skills

- 6+ years of proven experience with designing and developing application using Java EE platforms

- Strong architecture and design experience with building applications with 12 Design Factor principles

- Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management, etc.)

- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

- Experience in the Spring Framework

- Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC, AngularJS)

- Experience with Java 8 (threading, lambdas, streaming, etc.)

- Experience with GIT/Stash, SVN and build tools Hudson/Jenkins

- Experience in Red Hat Linux environment and shell scripting

- Hands-on experience practicing UTDD (unit test-driven development) and ATDD (acceptance test-driven development) behaviors, utilizing tools like Fitnesse or Cucumber, Selenuim and jUnit

- Expert understanding of object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns

- Hands on experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure configuration automation tools such as Puppet and Chef

- Hands on experience with developing, deploying and managing cloud applications

Ability to:

- Think creatively and solving problems simply, not always through technology

- Work with people of different skill sets in a cross-functional team, across locations

- Be a self-starter, driven and able to take initiative and work with minimal supervision

- Build real and lasting relationships with your team and extended partners

- Share knowledge and learning from others

Knowledge of Agile Development:

- Using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean or a related agile discipline/practice

- Focus on working with end users to deliver business value early

- Iterative and incremental delivery

- Emergent design and architecture

- Automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing

- Continuous integration, continuous build and automated deployment

Expected soft skills:

- A personal enthusiasm for technology and a drive to implement innovative and novel solutions to business problems

- Self-motivation and tenacity to push new ideas and changes through

- Good written and verbal communication skills in both technical and business domains

- Experience in a management/lead capacity

- Sharing knowledge and learning from others

- Adapting to change and working through ambiguity

- Strong facilitation and coaching skills

Additional Preferred Skills:

-          Sound understanding of Cloud technology, benefits and disadvantages

-          Hands on experience with building Cloud Native applications and deploying them on various cloud models (Public, Private and Hybrid cloud)

-          Experience in migrating applications from in-house data centers to Cloud environments

-          Experience with Microservices Architecture

-          Experience in Interface first design principles and adopting 12 Factor Design for Cloud

-          Experience in API management in Cloud

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