Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Director of Application Development in Brooklyn, NY

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
We are looking for a seasoned Director-level manager to lead our application development department. The ideal candidate will help us identify new technologies and practices in the industry and bring them to bear against the many challenges of a fast-growing hi-tech company building products ranging from rich-media handheld applications to Web 2.0 tools to large-scale data systems.

If you are interested in cutting-edge technologies, if you consider yourself a star programmer and if your management style has worked wonders in the past, we want to hear from you.

- Building productive teams through strong recruitment, mentoring and careers management.
- Leading a department of software developers and architects, establishing development practices.
- Engaging and challenging requirements while designing solutions based on deep technical knowledge of web, client and database architectures.
- Setting high level design objectives; reviewing and critiquing software designs proposed by architects.

Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Several years of experience leading a department of 10+ persons, managing practices, careers and recruitment.
- 5+ years of previous experience as a Software Architect
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, delivering and supporting complex customer-facing web-based applications.
- Expertise in several programming languages such as Java, C++ or C# as well as OO design
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills, as well as real-world experience with commercial RDMBS.
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with skilled developers and architects
- Taste for simplicity and elegance in technical design Required Skills:
Bonus points:
- Experience with Oracle. SQL and PL/SQL wizardry
- Experience with server-side Java technologies and major application servers
- Experience building desktop or PDA applications
- Taste for scripting languages such as Python or Ruby
Experience: Oracle,C++,Java,SQL,PL/SQL,C#,OO Methodology,Ruby or Python,

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