Java Developer Lead (Fort Washington, PA)

The Senior Developer/Scrum Master position is responsible for the creation and implementation of software solutions to meet the application and business requirements of the Company. This position will be responsible for complex projects and higher levels of responsibility and autonomy, including meeting with managers to gather requirements and document specifications in addition to running the daily Scrum process for a product line.

Essential Functions/Specific Duties:

• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

• Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization

• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment

• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

• Translate business and functional documents into programs/applications to meet business requirements

• Successfully implement and maintain Business Unit technology projects

• Ensure compliance with all software and servicing, originations and infrastructure standards within your respective Business Units

• Lead the support, integration, administration, and enhancement of all business unit technology

• Build, test, and maintain internally developed applications; perform unit testing of the changes made

• Participate in code reviews with peers and more senior developers around your code that you have developed.

• Work directly with other team members in technology and key business users on projects

• Ask clarifying questions to insure complete understand of the business requirements and how your code has met those business requirements

• Research and design solutions to meet the business requirement on simple to complex projects

• Perform coding and unit testing

• Prepare appropriate documentation around the coding changes, unit tests performed and results

• Prepare instructional documentation and update user documentation to reflect new modification.

• Help define testing plans with team

Qualifications/Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree followed by 7-8 years of progressive experience or equivalent work experience.

• 7+ years’ experience in a Java developer role required. .NET experience is a plus

• Solid understanding of the J2EE platform, design patterns, and service oriented architecture.

• Strong middle to back-end development experience

• MVC, RESTful Web API, Spring, JPA, and SQL experience. Hibernate experience is a plus

• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Inquisitive, curious, highly self-motivated to learn new technology/business concepts

• Expert problem solving skills

• Ability to build team and external business relationships

Walter Investment Management Corp. is an equal opportunity employer that takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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