POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Principal of Application Development acts as a technical expert on a specific area in Application Services, focusing on guiding, guidance, and support on high-expertise areas. This role leads all development activities and coordinates with other cross-functimulti-functionalsure delivery.
DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
- Design, develop, and deploy high-volume, high-usage self-service web portals for Herbalife Nutrition, applying Java/J2EE technologies.
- Lead team of contractors and/or employees to deliver software projects that drive the business value for Herbalife Nutrition.
- Collaborate with Technical Teams, Technical Manager, Project Manager and domain experts from the businesses and work closely with SMEs to understand, plan and implement.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
- Ensure project success by reviewing project plans, timelines, estimates, and requirements documents providing feedback.
- Lead code reviews and administer paired programming.
- Lead implementation efforts: infrastructure setup and integrations with other applications, and/or front end open or licensed software. Recommends better, faster, or smarter implementations.
- Take a leadership and mentoring role when working with less experienced staff always improving of technical expertise within the organization.
- Partner with collaborators, educating, negotiating, and influencing them on implementation options and risks.
- Provide unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.
- Give to creativity idea generation and may initiate and lead strategic projects that will add significant value to the business.
- Give to technical strategic planning for COMPANY, proposing new directions and technologies.
- Act independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
- Being readily available to solve any unforeseen production downtimes/incidents
Qualifications:
Skills:
Required
- 8+ years of relevant experience in delivering web technologies. Must have prior experience leading development of consumer apps.
- Experience with Java and J2EE
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud / Quarkus Java Package
- Experience with RESTful Web Services, Postman, HTTP (POST/GET/PUT), JWT, OAuth, Swagger
- Experience with API Gateway technologies like Apigee
- Experience with Azure cloud services like AKS
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes container management tools
- Experience with JPA/ Hibernate
- Experience with Oracle/Postgres/SQL Server RDBMS or other relational databases
- Experience with MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- Experience in Confluent Kafka is big plus
- Experience in design and launching complex business/responsive design applications.
- Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices.
- Strong understanding of software best-practices as it applies to web and business application development.
- Hands on architecture design and development experience required in building large scale applications.
- Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture.
- Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Extensive experience in Software Development Process Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
- Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
- Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.
Certificates / Training:
- Required: Certifications demonstrating industry recognition for area of expertise
Experience:
- 8+ years experience in applications with deep expertise in one area
- 6+ Years experience in design & development of end-to-end complex applications
Education:
Required
- Bachelor s in computer science or equivalent
Preferred
- Advanced Technical Degree
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting the performance and operation of high-traffic transactional web system in production environments, including log aggregation, remote debugging, pro-active monitoring of systems, for example through developing alerts.
- Continuous Delivery, including source control practices, versioning, branching, pipeline development, automation acceptance, and release management.
- Experience with international or multi-level marketing business
- Experience with monitoring tools.
- Certifications for desired non-niche programming languages
