Development Team Lead, IT Store Sys **Overall Job Summary** This position is responsible for a Team that creates, designs, and supports software running on various platforms used in Tractor Supply stores. Additional responsibilities include directing technical work, leading projects, mentoring team members, and managing direct reports. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)** + Supervise and direct work of individuals within the team. + Gather requirements, developing prototypes, and assisting in setting project scope + Hire, develop, and motivate assigned staff. + Liaison with business users and other IT teams. + Participate and make recommendations on the technical and functional direction of their domain. + Meet with technical leads, architects and vendor partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify and resolve system issues, ensure the system is implemented as designed and in adherence to the implementation guidelines. + Partner with the business analysts to review and refine business requirements into core system capabilities. + Assist developers, analysts, and designers in conceptualize and validating solutions that meet business requirements. + Work with Enterprise teams to ensure changes are properly documented, communicated, audited, and deployed in compliance with established procedures. + Provide 24x7 rotational technical support to solve business problems and documents resolution. **Required Qualifications** _Experience:_ 10+ years experience with Java and JEE technologies, and Oracle (such as SQL and PL/SQL); Agile development experience a strong plus. 5+ years experience working within Unix/Linux. 5+ years experience with web service technologies (REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, XML/XSLT etc.) is preferred. _Education:_ Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science or software engineering from an accredited college or university. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered. _Professional Certifications_ : None _High Demand IT Specialized skills_ : None _Platform knowledge (UNIX, Linux, Windows):_ UNIX and Linux **Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities** + Experience leading a team, including day to day management of resources is preferred. + Advanced technical and analytical ability in any programing language (Java is preferred). + Advanced knowledge of relational databases (Oracle preferred). + Advanced knowledge of portal technologies (Liferay and Oracle preferred). + Advanced knowledge of Unix like operating systems (Linux preferred). + Advanced knowledge of development tools such as Ant, Maven, Eclipse, and JUnit. + Advanced knowledge of version control systems such as subversion and Git. + Advanced knowledge of standard Java debugging tools such as VisualVM, jmap, jstack, etc. + Advanced knowledge and experience implementing design patterns, especially model-view-controller, inversion of control, and dependency injection. + Advanced knowledge of Java web technologies such as Servlets, JavaBeans, JSTL, and JSP is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of web and application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, and Apache httpd is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of XML technologies: XML, Schemas, SAX, DOM, XSLT, XQuery, XMLBeans, JDOM, XHTML, AJAX is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of presentation layer technologies such as JSON, JavaScript, HTML, JSF, JQuery is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of continuous integration concepts and tools is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of automated testing tools such as JMeter and Grinder is preferred. + Advanced knowledge of wired and wireless store hardware devices (e.g. registers, receipt printers, pin pads, scanners, RF guns) and C-based drivers that work with them is preferred. **Working Conditions** + Normal office working conditions **Physical Requirements** + Sitting + Standing (not walking) + Walking + Kneeling/Stooping/Bending + Lifting up to 50 pounds **Disclaimer** _This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. 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