«Agile Team Lead»

Required skills and experience:
• At least 5 years software development experience;
• At least 1 year of team leader responsibilities;
• Good English written, spoken and reading skills;
• Experience in practicing Agile/Scrum methodology. Scrum master experience or equivalent.
• Proven verbal and written communication skills, ability to clearly articulate complex issues, presentation skills
• Thorough knowledge of software development life cycle.
• Ability to provide realistic effort estimates and be committed on implementing within time and quality;
• Analytical thinking, proactive attitude, self-motivation, team-motivation demonstrated through past experience, capability to solve internal team issues.
• Working knowledge of J2EE, object-oriented analysis and design experience
• Familiarity with Java Open Source products
• Experience with configuration management tools: SVN, Mercurial, Maven

Education:
• BS CS/CE or equivalent degree required; MS or equivalent experience preferred

Advantages
Desired skills and experience, which would be considered as an advantage:
• Familiarity with Insurance Industry.
• Familiarity with cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, maintainability and supportability.
• Understanding enterprise application integration issues and experience with modern integration technologies.
• Understanding architecture of multi-tier, high transaction enterprise applications.
• Understanding SOA technologies (WebServices, JMS, CAS) and Data Warehousing
• Knowledge of leading RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL Server preferred)
• Familiarity with such technologies as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, JSF
• Familiarity of Java Application Servers: WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat