CIM is seeking exceptional Technical Leads to join our Comcast Experience Engineering group. This group is responsible for ensuring the timely development, testing, and release of products on Comcast.net and Xfinity.com with a high degree of quality that exceeds customer expectations.
In this highly visible position, you will be working with product stakeholders to define a product roadmap, plan sprints and releases, and ensure information flows between all project stakeholders. In addition, you will be responsible for coaching a team of engineers, identifying and resolving issues, conducting and facilitating meetings, tracking team and project progress, and constantly working to ensure the team has the best possible conditions to deliver on the goals of the sprint. The ideal candidate will have both technical experience in creating web sites and applications and leadership experience in managing an agile-process web development team.
JOB DUTIES:
• Serves as Engineering’s liaison to the Business, Project Management, and Design/IA organizations.
• Works with other technical leads, technical managers, and technical specialists to define the technical vision for a project/product. Owns and communicates this vision to the sprint team.
• Coordinates development between CIM and third-party vendors on a day-to-day basis. Review technical designs proposed by vendors.
• Prepares and maintains detailed specifications from which programs are written; ensures programs reflect documentation and meet quality standards.
• Manages project/product development life cycle including release planning and agile/scrum processes.
• Works with Operations and Quality Assurance organizations to plan and track tasks and issues. Manages bugs reported by QA.
• Crafts and delivers regular status reports and presentations to technical managers.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Experience with Agile Software Development Processes.
• Experience as a scrum master, technical project manager, or team facilitator.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to monitor and measure team's performance.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, web browsers, databases, software design, and architecture.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in internet/new media industry. Minimum of 8 years experience managing complex web projects and teams. Minimum of 5 years experience in an agency-like environment executing web design and development projects.
PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
• Experience with agile management tools (Rally), IDEs (Eclipse, Aptana), code versioning systems (Subversion), and systems to optimize content delivery (Akamai).
• Experience creating social interfaces. Exposure to OpenSocial, Facebook Connect, etc.
• Experience creating mobile web experiences.
Interested? Send a resume to erin_hogan@comcast.com
Source: Joel On Software