Technical Team Leader

Reuters




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Technical Team Leader





JOB DESCRIPTION - Role and Responsibilities


The qualified individual will lead a team developing fixed income information and analytics products.  This team is part of a larger development group responsible for enabling the core infrastructure for fixed income reference data, used by internal and external Reuters content clients worldwide.  Successful applicant will be responsible for leading the team in the design, implementation, QA, documentation, production release, and ongoing support and maintenance of systems consisting of web applications, automated processes and databases.




JOB SPECIFICATIONS- Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience


Demonstrated experience in all phases of the software development life cycle from requirements to design to release to ongoing maintenance of production systems

Strong analytic thinking skills: able to take general requirements or problem statements and work up detailed implementation plans for the team to meet them

Excellent communication skills:  Effectively runs team meetings and group discussions; communicates regularly, clearly and precisely, both verbally and in writing to members of the team, people related to the project, and to management

Good mentoring and coaching skills to help members of the team improve over time

Familiarity with agile development techniques beneficial

Related degrees: Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Minimum of 7 years development experience.

Requires in-depth experience and understanding of multiple programming languages, systems, as well as systems analysis and design, and project management methodologies.

Required languages: 5+ years programming in C, C++ or Perl; 5+ years experience with SQL (any variant)

Required products: 5+ years experience with UNIX or Linux variant

Optional languages: XML, HTML, Java, Python, Ruby

Optional products: Sybase SQL Server, Apache, modperl, Mason, CGI, Autosys, Bugzilla, Wiki, CVS


 





Reuters is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified employees will be given consideration for all job openings without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, parental status or sexual orientation.




C, C++ or Perl, UNIX or Linux