React Job: Lead Product Software Engineer | Java | React | An

You will join the Nursing Solutions and Practice team as part of Wolters Kluwer Health. We are in the process of transforming the whole program to a modern infrastructure, codebase, and user experience. At least for the next 12 months you will need to be comfortable jumping into legacy systems for bare minimum maintenance along with building understanding in existing capabilities to help with the modernization/re-platforming.
You will provide technical oversight for software development projects related to the delivery of global online platform and services-based solutions. You will manage all aspects of diverse, moderately complex to complex IT projects, including execution, timing, functionality, and quality. They utilize expertise to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met.
You will undertake complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge and make well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous application development issues. You will help work with product managers to understand and capture customer requirements, with business and technical staff to communicate technical architectures and solutions, and with software development staff (designers, testers, programmers, analysts, system administrators, etc. - both in- and out- of house) to ensure delivery of those solutions. Reporting to the Director, Product Software Engineering.

Responsibilities
In addition to design and coding, you are expected to communicate with other groups made up of employees in office and adopt company culture

• Technical and project management skills, experience with technologies in use, and experience working with offshore developers.
  
• Analyze business and user requirements, develop product solutions to meet those requirements, and integrate the solutions into the local team technical landscape
  
• Extend corporate and strategic architectures into line-of-business solutions.
  
• Communicate technical solutions to business and technical staff.
  
• Interact with business and technical partners to guide the software development process. Be an interface to the Global Platform Organization platform and asset development teams.
  
• Supervise, assign, and schedule staff and consultants for development projects. Manage closure of requirements, issues, and defects. Direct daily developer activities.
  
• Contribute to the evolution of the global tools, frameworks, and methods of work
  
• Adhere to existing software development policies and procedures and develop new procedures and participate in software process improvement initiatives.
  
• Recommend, and implement new technologies for software development. Stay abreast of current trends and technologies and introduce them into the Global Platform Organization development process.
  

Other Duties

• Will interview and onboard (off-shore) developers
  
• May occasionally interview and hire staff.
  
• You may require working some evening, weekend, and holiday hours.
  
• Other duties as assigned by management.
  

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree (B.E/ B Tech. Computer Science) from a four-year college or university, or equivalent degree

Must have skills

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of software development experience.
  
• Experience with agile software development methodologies (e.g. - Scrum or Kanban)
  
• Experience with technical leadership of software development teams.
  
• Experience with JavaScript/ Typescript and front-end development including Angular/React , Node-JS, HTML5 and CSS3
  
• Experience with Java and (/or) DotNet based development
  
• Excellent technical skills in software architecture, design and development.
  
• Highly motivated self-starter and good team player
  
• Able to work independently and responsibly on assigned projects
  
• English language written and oral communication skills
  
• Absorb and analyze new technologies and practices.
  
• Manage software development projects and deliver applications on time, on quality and on budget.
  
• Research and documentation skills.
  
• Handle project schedules, inconsistent requirements, ownership and commitment, and strict release deadlines.
  

Preferred

• Experience in Struts V1.
  
• Experience working with Semantic web
  
• Experience with daily offshore development interaction. Eastern European offshore experience a plus.
  
• Related experience in content retrieval, search (Solr), or publishing systems desirable.
  

Travel Requirements
We ask that you have some international travel, comprising no more than 10% of total days worked.

Benefits:
A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available -

Diversity MattersWolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America's Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America's Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.