Systems Developer Lead

Under general direction, performs work of considerable difficulty in providing leadership and direction to System Developers engaged in the programming, analysis, development, implementation, enhancement, revision, and maintenance of automated computer related systems that support the department, User Clients and City operations and mission statements; maintains open communications with client agencies and performs additional work as required.

Supervision:
• Exercised: Classification typically supervises.
• Received: Typically reports to an Information Technology Manager.
• Note: Other reporting relationships may apply

The City of Richmond Department of Information Technology is seeking a dedicated, focused, and highly qualified candidate for the position of Systems Developer Lead.  The incumbent is responsible for being a resource for designing, developing, and maintaining integration code and assets in support of enterprise applications, as well as administration and maintenance of BizTalk instances in multiple environments. 
 
Primary objectives for the position are:

• To design, build, and support feature-rich Enterprise integration components between mission-critical business systems
• To follow and develop existing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards by developing and maintaining efficient and reusable integration assets and consistently utilizing best practices and standard design paradigms across all projects
• To enforce best practices and standards in order to create consistent and easily maintainable Enterprise integration assets
• To deliver assigned projects on or ahead of time and with a high level of accuracy

• Designing, developing, maintaining, administering, and monitoring of BizTalk-based integration components to include:
  • Understanding, documenting, and administering prototype integration components based on business requirements
    • Writing and maintaining technical specifications documents as appropriate;
    • Providing recommendations and suggestions regarding proposed integration design and implementation details to application development teams.
  • Supporting deployed and new integration components to include:
    • Tracking and communicating project status on a scheduled basis;
    • Resolving delays and design issues during development;
    • Performing advanced troubleshooting and diagnosis of integration programming issues in both in-development and in deployed applications;
    • Designing and build BizTalk integration components, creating reusable and generic BizTalk assets to increase efficiencies by eliminating repeated code;
    • Promoting and enforce officially established best practices and coding standards;
    • Working with the application development teams to ensure that design adheres to established SOA best practices;
    • Escalating issues after putting in a strong effort to resolve them independently but before they cause a significant delay in the development lifecycle;
    • Building, documenting, and maintaining integration status reporting interfaces (within the context of the ESB Portal and BAM);
  • Monitoring production integration components, documenting and escalating system outage issues to the appropriate affected parties
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completion of the core curriculum for a Baccalaureate or Associate level major in computer science or a related field;
• Three (3) to four (4) years of experience in computer systems analysis and design including experience in a supervisory capacity;
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification;
• Project Management Practitioner's Certification preferred.

• Five (5) or more years BizTalk software development to include:
  • Schema, map, pipeline, component, and orchestration design and development;
  • C#, SQL Server required;
  • TFS preferred;
  • Oracle integration preferred;
  • WCF / .NET Web Services integration preferred;
  • Experience and knowledge of with SOA industry best practices.
• Three (3) or more years BizTalk system administration (including deployment, maintenance, and configuration) to include:
  • Production environment deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting required;
  • BizTalk Server 2010 experience expected.
• Demonstrated ability to 
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently both independently and as part of a functional team;
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with both business customers and Information Technology staff;
• Demonstrated decision making ability;
• Ability to multi-task and dynamically adjust priorities; 
• Proven planning and time management skills.

• High level effective communication and collaboration skills with diverse groups and public officials
• Possesses and exhibits a strong work ethic; self-confidence; a demonstrated commitment to producing a substantive work product
• Contributes to departmental goal achievement
• Demonstrates knowledge of city audit requirements and adheres to departmental standards. Ability to understand the "big picture" and to identify and resolve key issues
• Ensures the effective and efficient use of City resources
• Ability to learn government business requirements so as to be able to assess current and future IT needs
• Knowledge of the architecture, concepts, terminology, and operational principles of computer systems, network servers and workstations
• Knowledge of applicable networking and data communications technology, operating systems, procedural and command languages and utility software
• Demonstrated ability to train users to use new systems, develop end user training materials, and operating manuals
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ensuring cross-training of personnel to provide redundancy of skills and knowledge in critical applications
• Demonstrates the ability to producing required management or technical reports
• Demonstrated ability to provide a mentoring environment for IT staff including preparation and management of individual professional development plans for all IT staff members
• Supports group decisions, works with group to achieve goals, and handles conflict constructively
• Acquires and continuously develops professional/technical skills and knowledge
• Applies and demonstrates knowledge of the following: – Programming – Testing – Operations – Problem solving – Business systems analysis and design – Project management Applies and demonstrates knowledge of the techniques and principles of business systems analysis
• Demonstrates administrative and technical skills in problem resolution
• Possesses the experience and ability to analyze computer software and hardware programs
• Applies and demonstrates knowledge of City systems and processes which emphasize the interrelationships in networked City operations
• Applies experience integrating applications (both internally developed and COTS products)
• Works in partnership with internal and external organizations to help clients use technology integration to solve business challenges
• Provides on-going application support for reported problems throughout the software development life cycle including maintenance, replacement, and application retirement
• Designs and implements database applications
• Applies and demonstrates knowledge of database performance, tuning and theory and data normalization rules. Including referential integrity, use of stored procedures, triggers, and other advanced database design and coding techniques
• Demonstrates leadership skills and an excellent track record of managing technical staff through various life cycle phases
• Provides proven ability to supervise and monitor quality of work
• Plans, organizes and executes assignments effectively and efficiently including time management and productivity reporting
• Contributes to and enhances customer satisfaction by effectively planning and delivering project work
• Performs data analyzes, reasons logically, interprets requirements, and develops effective solutions to complex problems
• Demonstrates ability to interface with external vendors, external development groups, and internal development groups to support evaluation of buy versus build decisions of software or systems critical to on-going business operations
• Develops business and data process flow models as appropriate to support and reflect current and proposed requirements processes
• Identify options for consideration to improve data flow, security, performance and effectiveness of software or systems
• Demonstrates the knowledge and ability to ensure requirements are understood when developing test procedures, screen shots, prototypes, interpreting test results, and preparing initial software and database design
• Provides the experience and ability to assist in developing technical sections of Requests for Proposals for an audience of potential software vendors
• Possesses proven ability to deliver innovative solutions to key clients in auditing and accounting, financial management, business process improvement, strategy and operations, information systems development, package implementation, enterprise transformation, business process and application automation, and a full range of resource/performance management tracking systems
• Possesses a consistent history and experience working with client personnel to analyze, evaluate, and enhance information systems facilitating the business internal control process, and assist clients and other professionals in performing information technology (IT) control and security engagements
• Makes use of resources and plans and organizes time effectively
• Applies and demonstrates ability to plan and organize work
• Applies and demonstrates knowledge of systems and applications used by the City
• Possesses a broad base of technical experience to include some of the following:
  • Web application servers
  • IBM z/OS, UNIX, NT, and Windows 2000 platforms
  • Relational databases (SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle)
  • Application security knowledge
  • Infrastructure and/or Network knowledge
  • Understanding of n-tier architecture
  • Experience with UML or other Modeling Tools

PHYSICAL AND DEXTERITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Physical and dexterity refers to the requirement for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
• Requires light work that involves walking or standing most of the time and involves exerting up to 20 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis; skill, adeptness and speed in the use of fingers, hands or limbs on repetitive operation of mechanical machinery and tools within moderate tolerances or limits of accuracy.

• Environmental hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.
• The job may risk exposure to bright/dim light, wet or humid conditions, fume and/or noxious odors, disease/pathogens, toxic/caustic chemicals and violence.

• Sensory ability refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell required by the job.
• The job requires normal visual acuity, and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception and sense of smell.

• The City of Richmond, Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• ADA requires the City to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.