Lead Software Engineer

OPENTEXT 
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

Your Impact

A Sr. Software engineer will contribute directly to product/applications development, taking the responsibility for: delivering results; coaching and mentoring junior team members; ensuring the team to focus on the tasks at hand; communicating team status/progress vis-a-vis deliverables.

What the role offers:

• Contribute directly to applications/product development within a team.
• Enable the development team to deliver high-quality and reliable software efficiently (via tools, processes, best practices, etc). Lead and motivate the team to decide and deliver on their commitments.
• Plan and execute day-to-day operational activities in a team with minimal dependency. Monitor and control the projects/activities within a team with respect to schedule and quality.
• Demonstrate experience in the use of project management techniques. Holds daily scrum meetings, review meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review sessions, sprint retrospectives. Maintains work backlog for the team. Actively participates in overall-release synch-up meetings.
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating, and decision making skills.
• Build and maintain effective relationships within team and its ecosystem (among teams, sustenance, product management, field, customers etc.,) and collaborate well to drive improvements, leverage and showcase best practices in the context of software delivery.
• From a team context is expected to be inward-looking as well as outward-looking to meet the overall organizational objectives. Should manage execution related dependencies beyond team boundaries to get things done
• Mentor, grow, and establish a core development team that has the application breadth & depth across team.
• Should be able to succeed in an ambiguous environment and be able to cope under pressure and persevere.

What you need to succeed 

• Minimum experience of 8-12 years as a Software Engineer or similar positions and preferentially having worked in Software Development, Analysis and Testing.
• Demonstrated experience in n-tier development. Good knowledge of Software Engineering processes, methodologies and tools (UML, IDEs, CVS);
• Good hands-on experience in Java, Restful Web Services, Spring, Spring-boot, etc.
• He/she should have prior exp. with Docker, Kubernetes, Hyperscaler(GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Understanding of SaaS and Cloud computing paradigms will be added advantage
• Experience in Containerization and Microservices
• Should have good experience and understanding on SQL and PLSQL will be added advantage
• Knowledge of Oracle Java technologies Java: JSP, Servlet, JSF J2EE, JMS, Struts, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JDBC, SQL, and other Java related technologies)
• Demonstrated abilities to design and architect solutions that meet customer needs
• Should have excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Actively network and establish relationships which are crucial for the success of the team, product and organization.
• Should set high quality standards and high teamwork standards
• Must be Proactive and result oriented.
• People with experience in scrum way of software development will be preferred.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

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