Digital Mobile Engineer - Technical Lead

Wyndham Destinations is seeking a Digital Mobile Engineer, Technical Lead who will spearhead all of the software development activities across the full life cycle of the development process. Provides design oversight and serves as technical escalation point for the development, implementation and support of business applications and IT solutions within Information Technology. Provides SME knowledge, technical planning expertise in the areas of application architecture, application design, software development, performance, testing, implementation, and infrastructure. Ensures that the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements and all development practices complies with the enterprise standards, best practices policies and procedures. This role will drive technical implementation of in house software development as well as integration of vendor purchased products and operates across technology boundaries by collaborating with others to fill in gaps in knowledge.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead the solution design efforts for the system, ensuring that documented designs meet architectural, industry, and WVO IT standards. Responsible for design specifications of one or more large or critical applications or systems. 
• Analyzes complex business and systems requirements, and designs solutions for applications, data, processes, interfaces, controls, outputs, environment, infrastructure tools/utilities and/or testing that fit within the recommended time frame, architecture, standards and budget.
• Lead design and development of formalized solution methodologies using structured software design patterns and best practices.
•  Provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into high level design (HLD), low level design (LLD), interface design document (IDD), using structured software design patterns and best practices.
• Ensure solution design is in alignment with Enterprise guidelines, meets business expectations, performance SLAs, architectural standards, and meets or surpasses quality benchmarks.  
• Reviews the Solution Architecture document and creates the necessary design artifacts and contributes to project plans and cost estimates.
•  Works with developers to develop answers to ad-hoc technical problems and ensures the low level design adheres to the application design as well as Development Standards, Best Practices, Security Guidelines and Architecture direction.

Minimum Requirements and Qualifications:     Technical Skills

• Proficiency in analysis/design methods and techniques including: UML, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Deep understanding of SOLID design patterns, SOA principles and its implementation methodologies (Oracle Fusion experience, a plus)
• Data modeling / design experience
• N-Tier Application design, UX/UI experience
• Mainframe / Legacy Integration experience
• Strong understanding of Internet protocols and technologies (HTTP, SSL, SMTP, UDP, TCP/IP)
• Experience with test driven development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) tools (Junit, JMeter, Jenkins, Bamboo)
• High degree of experience with front-end and/or back-end development, web services development, variety of server-side technologies, databases, and frameworks as well as work with the infrastructure and configuration management teams to identify areas of opportunity and manage changes to the web environment. (e.g. HTML5, XML, JEE, Websphere, Enterprise JavaScript, JQuery, CSS3, AJAX, JQuery, JQueryUI, Enterprise Java, Spring)
• Understanding and/or working knowledge of content management setup, build out, maintenance, etc. (such as Adobe Experience Manager, OpenText (TeamSite, LiveSite), Vignette, Drupal, etc.)
• Experience in securing with social media platforms API's using OAuth, OpenID (Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Pinterest, etc.)
• Experience with SEO/SEM (search engine marketing and optimization) practices.
• Knowledge of industry applied analytics applications (such as Omniture, SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics, etc.)
• Experience in working with hierarchical and distributed code repository management and deployment tools (GIT, TFS, SVN, Maven)
• Proficiency in mobile application development including iOS and Android platforms. 
• Experience working in a mobile-first environment

      Job experience

• 10 years professional experience in software application engineering
• 7+ years experience as a software architect, systems analyst, software engineer of which 2+ yrs must be in a technical lead role capacity
• Experience in business process improvement and systems convergence initiatives.
• Experience working with off shore development teams