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Technical Lead

London

Competitive

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Provide technical leadership and design direction for large engineering projects. Coordinate with peer leaders from across Cisco to shape, strategy and integration.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provides design direction for large engineering projects
- Capable of providing authoritative technical leadership to a team of engineers
- Capable of subsystem or functional area ownership
- Works with client groups to determine technical approaches
- Initiates projects that apply across multiple modules
- Responsible for technical content of design reviews and/or code walk-throughs
- Works across functional teams to develop system/unit functional specifications
- Mentors engineers in use of sound design principles
- Able to fill all technical roles on a project team
- Is an extension of the management team
- Proactive communication skills and effectively communicates difficult messages consistent with management direction
- Effectively resolves conflict
- Develops tools or processes as appropriate and promulgates them through the organization in order to improve productivity

Technical Knowledge/ Skills

- Excellent server side Java development inc. multi-threading, concurrency etc.
- Good experience in Spring Framework and servlet containers (Tomcat, Jetty, etc)
- Good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, HTTPS, DNS, SNMP; experience with traffic captures
- Experience in real-time traffic processing (firewalls, port forwarding, etc.)
- Understanding of HTTP proxy servers is highly desirable
- Knowledge of WPAD, ICAP, WCCP
- Web Services (SOAP, REST)
- Hibernate or other ORM

Requested Background:

- Minimum of 10 years experience
- Experience of working in an agile environment
- Confidence working both independently and as part of a small team.
- Ability to evaluate and integrate 3rd-Party technologies into an existing codebase.
- Java code profiling and optimization.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Unit, Integration and Functional acceptance testing
- The ability to establish and maintain confidence with ownership of issues
- Strong leadership, coaching and skills development
- Strong communications skills to all management levels
- Team player
- Clear record of achievement and a willingness to work hard and preserve to make things happen
- Fluency in English
- Holder of relevant permit

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At a glance

Company: Cisco Systems
Location: London
Type: Full time/ Permanent
Reference No.: EXI/R863047

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