Short Description:
This Product Specialist is a technical team lead for the CACFP application. Primary responsibility is to serve as a Technical lead for a outsourced development team to ensure advancement and facilitate productive use of a product for Application Teams.
Complete Description:
While this position is technical in nature a qualified candidate will be responsible overseeing development from a technical perspective. This oversight requires technical aptitude in areas of J2EE and .Net applications. An IDEAL candidate would have functioned as a vendor manager/PM in the past.
Environment: Java/J2EE and .Net
Years of Relevant Experience: 8 years
Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study. Masters degree is preferred.
Role Description:
*Prior experience in application designing, coding, testing and deployment
*Understand the existing system, design and develop application enhancements according to Dept required standards
More role description:
•Actively contribute as an expert or actual designer.
•Coordinate product design reviews to verify that design meets quality standards and functional/technical requirements.
•Provide accurate estimates for design and programming efforts for system changes and
enhancements.
•Coordinate enhancements to business and logical data models with data base administration
to make the appropriate changes to the physical data model.
•Confirm that technical architecture will support all changes required by product
enhancements.
•Identify appropriate business examples to illustrate key concepts / features.
•Anticipate, identify, track and resolve issues and risks affecting own work and work of the Application Team. Develop contingency plans as necessary.
•Make sound recommendations on functional and technical improvements to the application.
•Analyze the functional and technical impact of product planning decisions.
•Develop appropriate functional and usability standards.
•Track and document expected volume and type of use of the product.
•Participate in product design reviews to verify that design meets quality standards and
functional/technical requirements.
•Apply specific expertise to ensure that products meet defined customer objectives.
•Anticipate and resolve issues specific to the team.
•Determine time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.
•Identify and track issues, risks and action items.
•Perform impact analysis on enhancements to establish priorities.
•Accurately sets severity of identified defects.
•Provide input to training and / or documentation materials regarding latest technical and
functional design changes.
•Complete assigned tasks.
•Strong communication skills; both written and spoken
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Prior experience as a Project Manager functioning as a technical expert (primary skill)
Required
2
Years
Prior Development experience with J2EE
Required
3
Years
Prior work interfacing or managing vendor teams
Highly desired
4
Years
Prior experience programming in .NET
Highly desired
1
Years
XML Webservices
Nice to have
2
Years
SQL Reporting tool
Nice to have
1
Years
PL/SQL
Nice to have
5
Years
Oracle 9i and above
Nice to have
4
Years
JavaScript
Nice to have
3
Years