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Lead Software Developer (Open Source) * 0500203
Description
The Church is embarking on an effort to leverage the community of LDS
developers willing to contribute their time and programming skills to further
the mission of the Church. The Church intends to employ someone whose primary
responsibility will be to lead this effort and organize the community. This
person will develop and document the processes that will govern the interaction
with the community and the integration of their contributions into systems
maintained and managed by the Church. In addition, this person will be
responsible for gathering and understanding user requirements, guiding the
creation of an environment in which the community can contribute, communicating
needs, organizing teams of programmers, providing design oversight and guidance
for each project and coordinating the deployment and life-cycle management of
these systems. This person will effectively manage multiple geographically
dispersed teams of developers and will be responsible to ensure progress is
being made and high-quality systems are being developed and managed.
Qualifications
Must be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, currently
temple worthy.
The candidate will have 5 or more years of professional software development
experience. He or she will have an in-depth knowledge of software development
methodologies and processes as well as a solid understanding of good
programming and design practices. Further, the ideal candidate will be able to
apply these to open source projects.
The candidate will be able to demonstrate significant participation in multiple
open source projects. Ideally, the candidate will not only have contributed
code, but also taken a leadership role and managed the contributions of others.
The candidate should have strong analytical problem solving skills, with the
ability to logically decompose problems and tasks into their elemental parts.
He or she should have strong debugging and troubleshooting skills and be
capable of identifying project risks and dependencies.
The candidate should have experience with Unix/Linux or Windows environments,
distributed systems, database programming, network programming, and/or
developing large software systems. He or she should have operational experience
and be able to demonstrate an awareness of the operational impact of design
decisions.
The candidate should have 5 or more years experience in a commercial software
product development environment with demonstrated proficiency in Java (J2EE),
Oracle, and web programming. He or she should have a sound understanding of
database systems and data modeling. He or she should have experience with
version control and change management.
The candidate should have experience in cross-platform development. He or she
should have a strong knowledge of issues related to the internationalization of
software systems.
The candidate must be a strong communicator with the ability to interact in a
positive way with the community of volunteer developers. He or she should have
well-developed oral and written skills. He or she must be able to keep
management apprised on progress and potential problems that jeopardize
deadlines and milestones.
The candidate must be self-managing and highly motivated. He or she must have
the ability to work independently as well as in collaborative team
environments. He or she must have the ability to remain positive in the face of
challenges and problems and be able to think clearly and logically under
pressure. He or she must be able to facilitate issue resolution across
geographically distributed teams of developers.
The candidate must have enthusiasm for solving problems and should be
passionate about leveraging the power of the LDS developer community to better
fulfill the mission of the Church.
Profile
Job Field Software Development
Locations Utah-Salt Lake City
Organization CIO
Schedule Full-time
Additional Information
Posting Date December 6, 2005
Contact Name ICS, Recruiter
Contact Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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