Friday, October 13, 2006

Lead Technical Architect for Dynamic Company! in New York, NY

Friday, October 13, 2006
Our client is a privately-held, New York-based company that publishes online and print content for the financial services industry and corporations. They are an entrepreneurial group that emphasizes initiative, positive thinking, continual improvement and resiliency in their work culture!

They are looking for a Lead Technical Architect!

The perfect candidate we are looking for is:

- passionate about new technologies
- dedicated to solving problems innovatively
- a leader and mentor in the field of Internet technology and PHP development
- a developer who understands business
- big picture thinker with attention to details and appreciation for analysis
- a developer who consistently delivers and keeps up to date on best
- practices/standards and programming methods
- an individual with experience architecting web sites using object oriented PHP and MySQL
- experienced with the Zend environment and subversion
- expertise with interfaces, MVC, XML, templating, caching, sessions, and authentication
- experienced with complex SQL queries and database schema design
- experienced with load balancers and geographically distributed production environments
- excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
- aware of web standards, their purpose, benefits and appropriateness
- comfortable and experienced leading a small team
- business aptitude and customer focus


The ideal candidate should have the following wants:

- to build world class websites with dynamic UIs, produce mobile content and communities, leveraging Google, web services, xml, xhtml, PHP and (of course) 'Ajax'
- to manage a team of talented and enthusiastic developers
- the opportunity to lead and shape new projects
- to drive business growth through technology initiatives
- to have a positive daily impact on a group of loyal subscribers
- to take all that you have learned so far and put it to good use while learning more


Our client is offering:

- a fun, collaborative team of web professionals with expert level skills
- the opportunity to build web based business applications and publications user-centric techniques
- a fast paced, dynamic, iterative development environment
- career development via day to day code and project implementation and academically via conferences/classes/training
- an organization that values coding skills and personal initiative: your ideas will make a difference
- top notch compensation and benefits including gift budgets and work/life balance
- a small company feel with an absence of politics To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here