Associate Director - Technology

About the CompanyJoin AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our team is delivering groundbreaking solutions that provide intuitive and integrated experiences for millions of customers across online, retail and care channels. We’re a technology-powered organization and committed to those who seek to discover the undiscoverable and dare to disrupt the norm. When you join our team, you’ll make bold impacts and create a seamless customer experience. If you’re ready to revolutionize the user experience, join our team and propel your career into the future.About the TeamAt AT&T, we’re connecting the world through the latest tech, top-of-the-line communications and the best in entertainment. Our groundbreaking digital solutions provide an intuitive and integrated experience for customers across online, retail and care channels. Join our mission to deliver compelling communication and entertainment experiences to customers around the world. You’ll drive how we deliver a seamless and fast customer experience with digital at the center of AT&T's distribution channels. We’re offering an opportunity to revolutionize the digital space and the chance to create a career that will propel your future.About the JobAT&T Digital Strategic Platforms team is looking for an Associate Director who is passionate about the eCommerce industry and has analytical and multi-task abilities to thrive in a fast-paced environment. As an Associate Director, you will be responsible for the design and development of various initiatives for AT&T’s customer and employee digital experience across our consumer distribution channels. You will manage and lead the software product development life cycle from inception to production launch and post-production support.  You must possess strong technical background to ensure you are designing modular & scalable web components, you must have experience leading large cross-organizational software development projects and have a well-rounded technical background in current web and micro-service technologies.Responsibilities and Day-to-Day ViewLead the strategic alignment of application development roadmaps to application and enterprise strategiesProvide technical design and architectural leadership to multiple teams and projects to help ensure applications are integrated and adhere to stated architectural and design principles and standards while having the opportunity to remain in a hands-on engineering role.Drive efforts to architect, design, develop, and implement technology-enabled business and technical information solutions encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologiesResearch, analyze and recommend new technologies, rationalization opportunities, standard processes, tools and techniques to further the firm’s application and enterprise technology architecture strategiesReview business process and technical solution designs to help ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technologiesOwns key initiatives & deliverables especially in post Order Management experience like Order Status, Order Details, Order Search etc. Provide functional and technical leadership to other Lead Engineers, Architects, Product Managers and Quality Analysts.Enforce company policies in the areas of development methodology, architecture, security, change and configuration management and compliance.Perform complex engineering activities for performance tuning, monitoring, deployment and production support.Supervise a team of 10 or more employees along with contractorsQualificationsRequired QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.10+ years of experience in working in Engineering or Development roles8+ years of progressive experience in one or more of the following areas: application delivery; subject matter expertise in building Java-based high-volume/high-transaction e-commerce applications8+ years of experience building web applications using Java, Spring and REST4+ years of experience with leading and managing teamsPrior experience with Digital transformations that includes migration from ATG or other commerce platforms  Preferred Qualifications6+ years of experience in architecture and design of systems using Micro services architecture5+ years of experience in a leadership capacity - coaching and mentoring engineers, developers2+ years of experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef or Terraform2+ years of experience in build and CICD technologies: GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus or Sonar4+ years of experience in Unit and Function testing using Junit, Spock, Mockito/JMock, Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI or PostmanExperience in building multi-channel or multi-tenant aware commerce platformsProficiency in Unix/Linux command lineExpert knowledge and experience working with asynchronous message processing, stream processing and event driven computing.Experience working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban development teamFamiliarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3Certified in Java, Spring or AWS technologiesExcellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leadersAT&T is leading the way to the future – for customers, businesses and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we’ve built a premier integrated communications company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined. Apply now!DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field