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This is a full time, on-site, salaried position in New York City paying $120,000 to $150,000 + benefits. US Citizens or Green Card holders only please. Local candidates preferred, but will relocate a scholar individual. Thank you.

Our client is an international advertising, marketing, and public relations agency based in New York City. They operate 497 offices in 125 countries around the world and employ approximately 16,000 professionals.

They are looking for a Technical Team Lead with application development smarts and the ability to inspire and direct a team of Web Developers? Do you thrive in a creative and energetic environment? If so, then this is an ideal opportunity to work at a top agency on cutting edge projects!

Responsibilities:

• Time split between management and development
• Architect solutions for scale, complexity, security and fault tolerance in a Windows Based environment
• Manage a team of software developers responsible for developing software that meet established standards
• Mentor projects through their full life cycle
• Contribute to setting policies and standards for interactive development team
• Enforce and improve coding standards through solution and code reviews
• Anticipate, identify, and articulate problem areas and work with others to devise solutions
• Facilitate software product development with multi-disciplinary teams
• Train and guide other developers
• On the development side, work with a high degree of independence on projects, contributing to both design and implementation
• Drive data servers to their potential with suitable middle-ware and front-end strategies to deal with scale, complexity, and failures

Required:

• B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or equivalent
• More than 7 years of application development work experience, with significant Web exposure
• Practical familiarity with standard Web protocols
• Experience working in a .NET environment
• Experience with C#
• Strong working knowledge of RDBMS, SQL and database optimization concepts
• Practical familiarity with XML, XSL, XPath, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX
• Use of source control
• Experience managing or mentoring application developers formally or informally
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical internal clients
• Experience working as part of a team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience writing shared and reusable components of code
• Experience designing and tuning applications that can scale

Desired:

• M.S. in Computer Science
• Formal software development methodology
• Experience with package products such as CMS, E-Commerce, Search, Portal Products
• Oracle-specific SQL, PL/SQL

To be considered, please submit your RESUME (MS-Word preferred) along with your SALARY requirements to beau[AT]open-source-staffing.com