About the Role

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Lead complex Application Development Architecture and whiteboarding sessions
• Develop CDW technical coding and documentation standards.
• Manage technically complex projects efforts in development, maintenance and enhancements of business system applications.
• Employ object-oriented analysis and design techniques including use case analysis, object modeling, and database schema design to ensure business requirements and design goals are met.
• Participate in application architecture planning (including system partitioning and framework design) to determine optimal solution architecture, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
• Make technical decisions to meet the design goals laid out in product road map and by management.
• Collaborate with business and project teams to gather requirements and business needs.
• Development of the application architecture framework. This implies mastery of the entire architecture.
• Assist the Product teams with High-level system narratives, storyboards, and user interface prototypes.
• Detailed design specifications for hardware and software use by the technical team.
• Define best practices for system test plans and ensure compliance to software quality Management (SQM) guidelines.
• Detailed estimates for projects, including resource allocation, timelines, and budget.
• Complete projects/tasks on a timely basis, according to commitments made to stakeholders and management.
• Develop new architectures for applications based on new or emerging technologies.
• Monitor technical progress of project teams and provide mentoring where appropriate.
• Identify issues that require more attention, and work to resolve issues based on an understanding of the business problem being solved.
• Draw appropriate resources together to address technical issues.
• Actively participate in the industry externally through internet research, white papers, or conferences.

Other Responsibilities

• Lead complex Software Automation Architecture and whiteboarding sessions.
• Design Technical/Integration Architectures, including development, runtime, and operations architectures.
• Develop CDW technical coding and documentation standards for DevOps development team.
• Manage technically complex projects efforts in development, maintenance and enhancements of business system applications.
• Determine operating requirements, costs, as well as resource needs for assigned projects and work in conjunction with a project manager on initiatives.
• Participate in application architecture planning (including system partitioning and framework design) to determine optimal solution architecture, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability.
• Analyze, design, and deliver efficiently and streamlined DevOps practices across the organization.
• Create suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
• Improve and build continuous build environments to speed up software development.
• Establish and manage continuous release environments to speed up software deployment.
• Lead / develop:
• High-level system narratives, storyboards, and user interface prototypes;
• Detailed design specifications for hardware and software use by the technical team;
• System test plans, ensure software quality assurance (SQA) standards are achieved, and validate that business goals are accomplished;
• Detailed estimates for projects, including resource allocation, timelines, and budget.
• Expertise in the architectural design, and implementation of patterns including Middleware, Bulk Data, Real-Time Data, File Based, Process Integrations, and Event Processing.
• Establish a cloud presence (SaaS or PaaS offerings) for CI/CD, source code, and build management.
• Collaborate with business and project teams to gather requirements and business needs.
• Make technical decisions to meet the design goals laid out in product road map and by management.
• Technically manage complex and large-scale project efforts in development, maintenance and enhancement of business system applications.
• Collaborate with enterprise application developers and architects (when appropriate) to determine optimal solution architecture, efficiency, maintainability and scalability.
• Build reference architecture for server automation offerings.
• Complete projects/tasks on a timely basis, according to commitments made to stakeholders and management.
• Report project/task status to the appropriate Manager, DevOps Engineering on a weekly basis.
• Identify issues that require more attention, and work to resolve issues based on an understanding of the business problem being solved.
• Draw appropriate resources together in order to address technical issues.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• Travel between local facilities as necessary.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• 12 years in application development, or 10 years CDW Application Development experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent IT knowledge/experience.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of direct experience:
• .NET & C# programing.
• Minimum combined DevOps and / or application development experience.
• 7 years of direct experience:
• PowerShell, Java, Javascript, SQL.
• Windows server configuration including operating systems and components such as IIS.
• Linux server configuration including operating systems and components.
• Direct experience:
• Source control systems such as TFS/Azure DevOps (strongly preferred) Git, GitHub, or GitLab.
• Configuring builds using tools such as Microsoft VSO / VSTS builds, MSBuild, VNext.
• Deploying code, continuous integration, continuous delivery across multiple non-production and production environments.
• Implementing and managing software deployment tools (i.e. XebiaLabs, Microsoft Release Manager, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Octopus, Jenkins, UrbanCode).
• Business, technical specific requirement analysis, business process modelling, mapping, API management and API gateway.
• Using cloud APIs to automate provisioning, deployment, improving system performance and stability a plus.
• 5 years of direct experience:
• Python, Ruby.
• Direct experience:
• Agile Scrum environment as an active participant delivering stories, creating stories, participating in stand-ups.
• Building and managing Azure PaaS (strongly preferred), or other cloud providers such as AWS, Google.
• Monitoring tools such as SCCM, Splunk, Dynatrace, NGINX and Icinga.
• Chef or Ansible (strongly preferred) or other Infrastructure as Code platforms such as Puppet.
• 3 years of direct experience:
• Building containers environments and managing orchestrators (Kubernetes).
• Managing and building container platforms with PKS, Rancher, or OpenShift.
• Experience acting as a liaison between application development, infrastructure, change management, and build engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build rapport and maintain productive working relationships cross-departmentally and cross-functionally.
• Advanced knowledge of product lifecycle and understanding of the role of methodology/frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including senior leadership.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with critical attention to detail and creative problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of general network concepts such as DNS, firewalls, load balancing (F5), switching, routing, etc.
• Forward-thinking approach to design and implementation.
• Proven track record of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
• Expert knowledge of the latest industry trends on DevOps technologies, cloud (iPaaS/PaaS), CI/CD, container, systems platforms management.
• Strong preference for candidates who have worked on large-scale enterprise applications (thousands of users, millions of lines of code).
• Strong understanding of Internet protocols including HTTP, SSL, TCP, IP is a plus.
• Familiarity with build engineering concepts a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile development and testing practices.