Associate Technical Specialist provides technical leadership to architect, design and develop internet scale applications and support throughout their lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Developing and maintaining top-notch software applications built on private & public cloud.

Architecting & Designing applications by adapting proven industry best practices alongside the R&D objectives.

Providing technical guidance and product roadmap assurance to a team of engineers.

Raising the bar on application & infrastructure code quality.

Strengthening the application and platform Security by adopting security best practices.

Ensuring the Compatibility and Accessibility conformity along with various Non-Functional Requirements throughout the application lifecycle.

Automating functional & other quality tests at different layers of the application to uncover issues as early as possible.

Improving application's ability to continuously integrate & deploy to facilitate frequent and smaller releases with no customer impact.

Baking Observability into the applications, actively monitoring and resolving issues promptly.

Monitoring various performance indicators of the applications and making continuous improvements and optimizations.

Requirements:

A bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computing or a related field.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering.

An up-to-date knowledge on industry trends & new developments in programming, application development and lifecycle management.

A passion for solving problems with innovative & practical solutions.

Strong analytical and reasoning skills with the ability to visualize the outcomes.

Thorough knowledge on algorithms & data structures.

Proficiency in at least two high level programming languages/frameworks such as Java, SpringBoot, React/Redux, NodeJS, Python and the ability to quickly adopt languages & techniques.

Experience with AWS Services and Infrastructure

Ability to craft quality code and automate various types of tests on application components.

Proficiency in monitoring applications, troubleshooting and fixing application issues.

Thorough knowledge on the Non-Functional requirements of applications such as Security, Accessibility, Compatibility, Observability & Availability.

Working knowledge on continuous integration and deployment.

What to expect from Pearson

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Higher Education

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 17598

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