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Technical Architect

Propylon is a leading global vendor of legislative and regulatory content management. We work with Legislatures and Regulatory agencies in Europe and the US to solve their content management problems and use cutting edge technologies within our products to provide process efficiencies, increased collaboration, simplification of work flows and transparency of information.

Our platform is standards-based and cutting-edge. It uses Java, Python, XML, ActiveMQ, MySQL, Netbeans, Django, OpenOffice as well as other emerging technologies.

 

Job Description:

  • Lead the software engineering team onsite to deliver quality solutions
  • Work with our project manager to ensure successful delivery of the solutions
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the organisations development standards
  • Work with Propylon's Engineering Manager, Chief Scientist and Architects to ensure that the development standards and patterns are adhered to
  • Provide the innovation required to produce solutions using Propylon’s product stack
  • Provide leadership and guidance to all software engineers within the team
  • Provide high quality documentation to support the solution
Skills & Experience:
  • Proven delivery of projects on-time and to high levels of quality
  • At least 3 years experience in a technical architect role
  • At least 8-10 years experience working in IT
  • Proven ability to motivate, lead and provide assistance/mentoring to a team of engineers
  • Previous experience of developing coding standards and enforcing them
  • Experience in managing remote/off-shore teams a distinct advantage
  • Experience working in a Java/J2EE or Python/Django technologies
  • Experience of the following technologies is required:
    • Unix
    • Apache
    • MySQL or similar relational database
    • SVN
  • Experience of the following technologies such as these is a distinct advantage:
    • OpenOffice.org
    • ApacheMQ/ActiveMQ or other messaging system
    • NetBeans RCP
    • jQuery and JSON
  • Familiarity with Web protocols, standards & techniques such as http, REST, WS-*, RSS/Atom, XMPP a distinct advantage
  • Excellent understanding and experience of the software engineering lifecycle

Education:

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Job Location:

  • Lawrence, Kansas.


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