Technical Project Lead

Subject Matter Expert in the production support of high availability, multi-site, environment.

  • Lead and participate in the definition, planning, testing, deployment, and ongoing technical support of the client’s customer-facing Dynamic Content Management Platform. 
  • Define, implement and support the 24×7×365 multi-tiered application technology and infrastructure, and disaster recovery capabilities.  Take charge of support systems and content health monitoring, capacity alerts, automated emergency response and technical troubleshooting.
  • Project Lead and technical expert for platform technology and infrastructure support; provide and fulfill 24×7×365 SLAs both internally and externally.
  • Serve as the technical expert in multi-site, high-performance, high-availability platforms
  • Test, deploy, optimize and manage the technology platform and associated systems
  • Execute upgrade release governance from requirements through user test, performance tests and low-impact deployment to production
  • Technical responsibility for overall system performance optimization, content throughput, system health troubleshooting and recommendation of upgrades and improvements.
  • Manage regular user acceptance tests production operations, simulations, and knowledge transfer of upgrades to the Operations Group during deployments
  • Lead cross-functional efforts for platform improvement with Research & Development for architecture / requirements / design upgrades.

Requirements:

  • Extensive technical project leadership experience
  • Broad experience with real-time, high-availability systems (required)
  • In-depth experience with high performance, large systems operations
  • Experience with on-line (Web-based) transaction processing
  • Experienced with data warehousing, web services, cloud computing, modern IS infrastructures desired
  • Experience with performance tuning, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, security, and multi-site operations desired
  • Skilled in building working teams for short to mid-term projects
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and provide the necessary support to resolve system problems/questions       
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Systems Engineering