Clarivate Analytics’ clients are the trailblazers and risk takers who come up with life-changing ideas. We’re looking for our own trailblazers to help us keep providing clients some of the world’s most trusted brands, spanning scientific and academic research, patent analytics, pharmaceutical and biotech intelligence and IP management. If you’re excited by the thought of helping people and organizations go from new ideas to life-changing innovations faster, we’re excited to explore your fitment in our organization.
Built by IP experts and data scientists, Derwent Innovation is a market-leading patent research and analytics platform delivering access to globally trusted patents and scientific literature. Our enhanced content, proprietary search and data intelligence technology helps a global community of more than 40,000 innovators and legal professionals find answers to complex questions.
The technical lead in Derwent Innovation product group is a senior position responsible for the development team, leading the team to deliver new product features or enhance existing product features. The tech-lead will set the technical direction for the team’s deliverables and leads his team for the successful implementation by providing hand-on leadership. You will work closely with architects, QA and other stakeholders in the organization to achieve business objectives of the organization.
Role and Responsibilities:
Hand-on first level management position responsible for the development team including their deliverables, performance and year-end performance reviews.
Provide hand-on technical leadership to the team.
Review product requirement to identify gaps and refine requirements, develop execution strategy, provide time estimates and release plan, provide testing requirements, implement and deliver the solution with your team.
Design, develop and contribute to the software architecture of key solutions.
Review technical requirements provided by the business for key projects, in order to take concepts from design to delivery.
Conduct code review and advocate best coding practices.
Works for resolution of technical impediments by collaborating with appropriate stakeholders, proposing, developing and delivering resolutions.
Ensures each product meets required quality standards, identifies potential risks in quality and works with leadership in creating mitigation plans.
Leads defect triage meetings. Works with support and consulting teams in resolving customer issues. Interacts with customers as required in understanding, reproducing, and troubleshooting customer issues
Provides training, guidance, feedback, coaching and mentorship to fellow engineers. Provides technical thought leadership across organization.
Hire and develop the team.
Work in an agile, rapid development and prototyping environment where effective communication is paramount.
Skills and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology, or Engineering, (strongly preferred), or equivalent work experience.
Highly proactive, result-oriented and team player.
Hand-on technical leader with 9+ years of experience in software development of complex distributed system.
Must be hand-on technical leader with ability to code 100% of time,
Exceptional experience in the field of developments, and deployment of high-volume applications both on-prem and on Cloud.
At least 2 years of experience in leading a small team of developers.
Strong programming experience – Java/J2EE, Python, Perl, shell script etc
Strong experience in web technologies – Node JS, Angular, React, JQuery, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS
Strong experience in MVC, Spring, Hibernate, Microservices, Application/Web Servers.
Strong understanding/expertise in building REST APIs/ Micro services architecture.
Data modelling and database design experience including NoSQL DBs
Experience with GIT Hub, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, and other CI/CD Platforms
Experience in building application for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Expertise in architectural styles and design patterns
Expertise in industry best practices in SW development processes: Unit testing, Object Oriented design, code reviews etc.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with specific experience and demonstrable success with the full software development lifecycle and using the Agile Development processes
Successful track record as a ‘hands on’ technical leader, building and managing teams to a level of top-notch professionals
Expertise in independently evaluating tools, technology, and framework based on product requirements.
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
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