WebSeries Lead Application Developer

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment and invoice automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company's solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes and transactions involving global payments, invoice approval, purchase-to-pay, collections, cash management and document process automation. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimization of working capital.

 

Bottomline Technologies offers a great work environment which includes regular employee recognition, extensive health and wellness benefits, Pizza Fridays, and fun family events.

 

 

We will be doing on the spot interviews for this position at our Job Fair on Tuesday, May 6, from 10am – 3pm, at Bottomline Technologies – located at 325 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH  03801

 

 

 

Summary:

Directs the technical team in the development, testing and deployment of banking applications using Webseries, the core Bottomline platform for banking and payment systems. Works closely with the project manager on requirements and functional specifications.

 

Responsibilities:

§  Lead technical teams in client projects, both on client sites and in BT offices.

§  Run client JAD sessions to gather application specifications.

§  Understand and be conversant with the client business

§  Make technical decisions based on the functionality to be delivered in an application

§  Write and maintain design documentation for an application

§  Estimate level of effort for tasks on the project plan

§  Assign tasks to team members and monitor progress of team members to meet task deadlines

§  Manage development activities to meet budget constraints

§  Communicate technical progress to clients

§  Understand and communicate the impact of changes to the application

§  Co-ordinate activities with quality assurance personnel on defect resolution

§  Co-ordinate activities with quality assurance personnel on user acceptance testing activities

§  Contribute to and lead creation of development best practices

§  Mentor team members in development and design

§  Improve internal development processes

§  Drive technical teams to benefit from the re-use of existing functionality

§  Increase personal technical skills and industry knowledge

 

Qualifications:

§  Strong technical skills in HTML, JSP/ASP and SQL

§  Understanding of all phases of project lifecycle

§  Ability to translate a functional specification into a technical design

§  Ability to create accurate effort estimates in support of project planning activities

§  Ability and comfort to assign tasks to team members and manage team to complete tasks on-time, on-budget and to a high degree of quality

§  Ability to perform peer reviews of developed software to ensure high levels of quality

§  Ability to read, understand and be able to develop software from a functional specification

§  Strong written communication skills. (MS Office skills, specifically MS Excel & Word)

§  Strong problem solving skills.

§  Strong mentoring and leadership skills

§  Ability to review software designs and implementations strategies and provide feedback in relationship to quality (maintainability, scalability, reliability, etc)

§  Ability to review code and pin-point defects (and/or ability to program software modules)

§  Ability to follow test scripts from Quality Assurance in addition to independent unit testing of functionality of Web applications, both front-end UI as well as back-end Databases, Application Servers, and Services under multiple operating systems (Unix and/or Windows based)

§  Understanding of most concepts, practices, and procedures of the industry in which the software is used (financial departments, banks, insurance companies, law firms, etc)

§  Willingness to travel for on-site development (50%)

 

Education and Experience:

§  4 year degree in Computer Science or equivalent

§  5+ years development experience using industry standard development languages such as J2EE or .NET

§  3+ years as a team leader of a software development project

§  3+ years Enterprise class internet application architecture, design and development

§  3+ years working with banking industry applications