Technical Coach

Location: Fort Worth, TX
Description:
Job Title:Technical Coach

Contract: Contract to Hire (6+ Months)

Location : Dallas FW, TX (Hybrid- 3 days onsite per week)

Interview: Interviews will be 2 rounds - 1st virtual, 2nd onsite and there will be a coding assessment.

Top 3 to 5 skillsets / years of experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 4+ years of relevant work experience in an agile environment
• Ability to scrutinize provided architectures and suggest optimizations for deployment and minimizing the cost of change.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others, in any context.
• Understands and practice different coaching stances. Surrounding team/key projects: Will be working with all products with in commercial and operation providing technical coaching.

DESCRIPTION

Why you'll love this job

• Our IT organization is inclusive of many diverse, high-performing teams dedicated to technical excellence, your role is anchored in supporting our teams on their journey to deliver unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable.
• Our Delivery Excellence organization is dedicated to improving the success of our development teams through improved daily work habits and alignment to delivery metrics while creating and maintaining resilient and best in class products for our customers and team members. As a Technical Coach, you are given the opportunity to guide whole product teams toward achieving company objectives and delivering their product vision more effectively using exemplary and modern engineering practices.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Coach teams in our immersive dojo / coaching space.
• Serve as a go-to expert on modern technology, architecture, engineering, and DevOps practices.
• Work with technical teams and leadership to influence and support the engineering culture.
• Collaborate with product teams on reaching the next level of customer delivery.
• Be a mentor and get hands-on with software teams including engineers and architects on learning and applying new ways to solve problems.
• Lead large pairing / mobbing sessions to maximize learning while narrowing focus.
• Design and develop facilitator-led materials related to modern engineering practices or ways of working.
• Bring your real-world software engineering experience to the enablement organization to help build a viable community of technical coaches and practitioners throughout the enterprise.
• Embed with teams to learn their environment and behaviors as a precursor to designing impactful coaching interventions.
• Develop and implement coaching interventions for teams including software engineers and architects!
• Exemplify and demonstrate preferred team behaviors and embody the desired culture. That means it's important also to professionally address undesirable behaviors if they should arise.
• Contribute to the developer experience platform that removes organization friction from the continuous delivery of value.

All you'll need for success.

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 4+ years of relevant work experience in an agile environment
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one object-oriented language.
• Previous experience supporting high performing Agile / DevOps teams.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others, in any context.
• Practical use of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to design non-trivial systems.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Expertise in Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming, Kanban, or Scrum
• Working experience deploying and supporting business-critical, Internet scale distributed systems or high-volume client/server systems
• Ability to scrutinize provided architectures and suggest optimizations for deployment and minimizing the cost of change.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience building continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Experience with any of the following:
• The Testing Pyramid and how to effectively apply it
• Multi-threading and concurrency
• Debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Object-oriented and service-oriented application development patterns
• Adept and comfortable communicating with team members and external business stakeholders of all levels
• Demonstrated ability to find creative ways of improving and simplifying solutions, systems, and processes without getting bogged down in blockers or bottlenecks.

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

Proficiency with the following technologies:

• Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript/Typescript
• Frameworks: Spring/Spring Boot, Fast API
• Front End Technologies: Angular/React
• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
• Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
• CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, Graph QL
• Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
• Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/ NUnit / PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock /Mockito/ Moq

• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity.
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles
• Proficiency in Agile frameworks and methodologies
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain

Contact:

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Please apply with us today!

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