Lead Application Developer

6 months ago

Oak Brook, United States PLS Financial Services, Inc. Full time

Our Lead Developer/ Solutions Architect is a key development role at PLS responsible for building and designing critical enterprise solutions. The candidate will participate as a technical expert in design and development of software in support of digital transformation, application modernization, and BI initiatives. The specific responsibilities will vary from project to project, providing excitement and variety, but also requiring flexibility and adaptability to support enterprise need.


The candidate will collaborate with team members across enterprise IT organization to build solutions that are in alignment with overall business and technology strategy. The candidate will work closely with appropriate business partners in developing technology solution approaches, evaluating products, and assessing ROI as well as TCO on key initiatives.


Job Responsibilities:

  • Architect and design n-tier solutions in predominately Microsoft stack environment, with focus on functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure, and performance.
  • Define and implement proof-of-concepts for proving new technologies and/or design patterns
  • Provide reference model, reference architecture, and reference implementation for various domains along with frameworks to promote standardization across the enterprise
  • Build and maintain the current-state and future-state applications architecture views for the enterprise
  • Advocate and enforce best practices, principles, and standards for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and reusability at a enterprise scale
  • Participate on the architecture board to provide governance and build processes to guide and sanction critical architectural decisions
  • Monitor technology trends and determine potential impact and implications to our businesses and systems
  • Serve as a technical leader and motivator on cross-functional teams during the entire lifecycle of product development in an agile software development environment
  • Hands-on Coding experience in a .NET/ C#/ Angular environment. Active experience conducting Code Reviews
  • Mentor and coach junior IT resources

Job Requirements:


· Bachelor Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Programming, Engineering, OR a related discipline with an advanced degree preferred, or its equivalent

· 5+ years of proven experience working in building solutions and applications across multiple technology domains as a Full Stack Developer/Architect

· Proven experience designing, and developing / integrating enterprise scale software products and solutions particularly focused on distributed and real-time systems

· In-depth knowledge of diverse technologies covering front end (Web / Mobile), middleware, persistence layer, along with BI solutions in Microsoft stack

· Experience in the design and development of Enterprise Single Page, and Mobile Applications (Native, Hybrid, Web)

· Experience in the design and development of cloud-native and on premise distributed applications that leverage Microservice Architecture, REST APIs, API Gateways, relational and NoSQL stores and loosely coupled messaging

· Experience implementing solutions using Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches leveraging enterprise service bus with security, service registry, and governance in place

· Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design

· Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns

· Strong understanding of Azure Cloud platform and SaaS architectures

· Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools

· Experience with Business intelligence, ETL, and Data Warehousing a plus

· Understanding of security and networking concepts a plus

· Ability to quickly perform proof-of-concepts for validating new technology or approach

· Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and provide support across all phases of SDLC

· Good grasp of various software development lifecycle methodologies (Waterfall, RUP, Agile)



We strive to demonstrate our Core Values in all positions at PLS:

Communication ● Customer Focus ● Integrity and Trust ● Teamwork ● Results


PLS Financial Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. PLS Financial Services will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. PLS Financial Services is a drug-free workplace. PLS provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your Recruiter or a member of our Human Resources team talent@PLS247.com to make arrangements. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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