Position Title: Distributed Developer
Duration: 6 months
Work Location: London, ON

SUMMARY OF DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and documenting programs. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. May report directly to a project lead or manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. A vacancy exists for a senior developer to join the team in the delivery and development of this project and to eventually contribute to future enhancement, support and maintenance post-delivery. Prime responsibility will be to develop detailed design specifications, create and review code and assess impact on other applications. Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting. Configuration management for the sub projects within the release. Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews. Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed. Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code). Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution. Data set up and environment shake down. Coaching / mentoring of junior developers. Knowledge transfer within group. Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

MUST HAVE:

NodeJS, Angular
Rest APIs, OAuth based authentication, RAML, JSON
Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Applications Servers (JBOSS ) — JBOSS EAP and JBOSS EWS
Unix shell scripting, Cloudify, TOSCA Blueprints.

NICE TO HAVE:

UX design
GIT, Maven, Jenkins (for agile build environment), Nexus