IT - Technology Lead | Reactive Programming | react JS

POC: Brenda Job title: Onshore Lead Duration of the project: 6 months Work Location with Zip code: One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005, USA Please confirm if this would be onsite from day one OR Initial remote for 2-3 months and then expecting candidate to work from office OR 100% Remote: Client office Is this an 100% remote role? No Vendor Rate Range (min to max rate you can offer): 70 $ per hr Do you have budget approved for this request? In Progress Minimum years of experience required: 10+ Would you require the candidates to meet you for in person interview? No Is Skype/WebEx interview, OK? Video conference Please Confirm Must Have Skills (TOP 3 SKILLS) Full stack developer with reactjs, Node & AWS skills with good client communication and ccordinationOnshore Lead - SCPT Costing Platform## Position OverviewThe Onshore Lead will serve as the technical architect and team leader for the SCPT (Supply Chain Planning & Tracking) Costing platform, a mission-critical enterprise application built on AWS serverless architecture. This role requires a seasoned full-stack engineer who can bridge technical excellence with leadership, guiding a distributed team of 8 offshore developers (3 API, 2 UI, 2 QA, 1 Infrastructure) while driving architectural decisions and maintaining high-quality deliverables.**Location:** Onshore (US-based preferred) **Experience Required:** 10+ years **Team Size:** Leading 8 offshore developers **Reporting To:** Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering---## Primary Responsibilities### 1. Technical Leadership & Architecture (40%)**System Architecture:** Design and evolve the serverless architecture on AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness**Technology Strategy:** Make critical decisions on technology stack, frameworks, and third-party integrations**Code Quality:** Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and design patterns across the team**Technical Debt Management:** Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction and system improvements**Performance Optimization:** Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in UI, API, and database layers**Security & Compliance:** Ensure application meets Nike's security standards, compliance requirements, and data protection policies### 2. Team Leadership & Mentorship (30%)**Offshore Team Management:** Lead daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives with distributed team across time zones**Mentorship:** Provide technical guidance and career development for 3 senior and 5 junior/mid-level offshore developers**Code Reviews:** Conduct thorough code reviews, providing constructive feedback and knowledge sharing**Skill Development:** Identify skill gaps and create learning paths for team members**Conflict Resolution:** Address technical disagreements and facilitate consensus on architectural decisions**Performance Management:** Work with HR/management on performance reviews and goal setting### 3. Project Delivery & Stakeholder Management (20%)**Sprint Planning:** Break down complex features into actionable user stories and tasks**Risk Management:** Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies**Stakeholder Communication:** Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders**Delivery Oversight:** Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery of features and bug fixes**Cross-functional Collaboration:** Work with Product, UX, Business Analysts, and other engineering teams**Estimation & Planning:** Provide accurate effort estimates for roadmap planning### 4. Hands-on Development (10%)**Critical Features:** Lead implementation of complex, high-risk features**Proof of Concepts:** Build POCs for new technologies or architectural changes**Production Support:** Troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues**Technical Spikes:** Investigate and prototype solutions for ambiguous requirements---## Required Technical Skills### Cloud & Infrastructure (Expert Level)**AWS Services:****Compute:** Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions**Storage:** S3, RDS (PostgreSQL), OpenSearch**Integration:** SQS, EventBridge, SNS**Security:** IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC**Monitoring:** CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudWatch Insights**Infrastructure as Code:****Terraform:** Advanced module development, state management, multi-environment deploymentsTerraform best practices: DRY principles, remote state, workspace managementInfrastructure security and compliance automation**CI/CD:****Jenkins:** Declarative pipelines, Groovy DSL, multi-stage deploymentsDocker containerization and orchestrationAutomated testing integrationBlue-green and canary deployment strategies### Backend Development (Expert Level)**Node.js Ecosystem:**Advanced Node.js patterns (async/await, event emitters, streams)Express.js for API developmentAWS Lambda optimization and cold start managementMemory management and performance tuning**Database Technologies:****PostgreSQL:** Query optimization, indexing strategies, connection pooling**Sequelize ORM:** Complex associations, migrations, transactionsDatabase design and normalizationRead replicas and database scaling**Event-Driven Architecture:****Kafka/KafkaJS:** Consumer groups, offset management, partition strategiesMessage queue patterns (SQS, dead letter queues)Event sourcing and CQRS patternsIdempotency and exactly-once processing**Search & Analytics:****OpenSearch/Elasticsearch:** Index design, query DSL, aggregationselastic-builder for complex queriesSearch optimization and relevance tuning**Additional Technologies:**Snowflake data warehouse (queries, data modeling)Databricks SQL integrationLDAP/Active Directory integrationExcel processing (ExcelJS, xlsx libraries)### Frontend Development (Advanced Level)**React Ecosystem:**React 17+ (Hooks, Context API, performance optimization)Redux/Redux-Saga for complex state managementReact Router v6Module Federation (micro-frontends)**UI Libraries & Tools:**AG Grid Enterprise (complex data grids)Material-UI/Emotion (styled components)Nike Design System (EDS) - preferredWebpack configuration and optimization**Authentication & Authorization:**Okta integrationOAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect flowsJWT token managementRole-based access control (RBAC)### DevOps & Tooling (Advanced Level)**Version Control:** Git advanced workflows (rebase, cherry-pick, branching strategies)**Testing:**Jest (unit, integration testing)Cypress (E2E testing)API testing (Postman/Bruno)Test coverage analysis and improvement**Monitoring & Observability:**CloudWatch Logs InsightsDistributed tracing (X-Ray)Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Custom metrics and alerting**Containerization:** Docker, Docker Compose, multi-stage builds---## Required Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities### Communication Excellence**Clear Technical Communication:** Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders**Documentation:** Create comprehensive technical documentation, ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and runbooks**Cross-timezone Collaboration:** Effective async communication with offshore team**Presentation Skills:** Present technical solutions to senior leadership and stakeholders**Active Listening:** Understand team concerns, requirements ambiguity, and stakeholder needs### Leadership & Mentorship**Servant Leadership:** Support team success by removing blockers and providing resources**Conflict Resolution:** Navigate technical disagreements with diplomacy and data-driven decisions**Growth Mindset:** Foster a learning culture, encourage experimentation and innovation**Empathy:** Understand team challenges, especially across cultural and time zone differences**Decision Making:** Make timely decisions with incomplete information when necessary### Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking**Analytical Thinking:** Break down complex problems into manageable components**Root Cause Analysis:** Investigate production issues systematically**Trade-off Analysis:** Balance competing priorities (speed vs. quality, cost vs. performance)**Innovation:** Identify opportunities for process improvements and technical innovations### Project Management**Agile/Scrum Mastery:** Deep understanding of agile principles and practices**Risk Management:** Proactively identify and mitigate risks**Prioritization:** Help product owners prioritize technical work vs. feature work**Estimation:** Provide accurate estimates and communicate uncertainty**Time Management:** Balance hands-on work with leadership responsibilities---## Day-to-Day Activities### Morning (Overlap with Offshore Team - 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM)**Daily Standup:** Facilitate 15-minute standup with full team**Blocker Resolution:** Address any blockers raised by offshore team**PR Reviews:** Review pull requests submitted overnight by offshore team**Architecture Questions:** Answer technical questions and provide guidance**Sprint Planning:** Clarify user stories and acceptance criteria### Mid-Day (Deep Work - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM)**Code Development:** Implement critical features or complex components**Architecture & Design:** Create design documents, sequence diagrams, ERDs**Stakeholder Meetings:** Requirements gathering, demo sessions, status updates**Performance Analysis:** Investigate and optimize application performance**Proof of Concepts:** Build POCs for new technologies or approaches### Afternoon (Team Enablement - 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)**1-on-1s:** Weekly one-on-one meetings with team members**Code Reviews:** In-depth review of complex PRs with feedback**Documentation:** Update technical docs, runbooks, and knowledge base**Production Monitoring:** Review CloudWatch metrics, error rates, performance**Sprint Ceremonies:** Sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives**Learning & Development:** Stay current with new AWS services, React patterns, etc.### Evening (Async Collaboration - 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)**Offshore Handoff:** Leave detailed notes, feedback, and guidance for offshore team's next day**Slack/Email:** Respond to async questions from offshore team**Documentation Updates:** Ensure confluence/wiki is up-to-date**Planning for Next Day:** Review priorities and prepare for tomorrow---## Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)### Team Performance**Sprint Velocity:** Consistent and predictable team velocity**Sprint Commitment:** 90%+ sprint goal achievement**Deployment Frequency:** Weekly production deployments (or more frequent)**Lead Time:** Reduce time from story start to production deployment**Cycle Time:** Optimize time from code commit to production### Quality Metrics**Defect Density:** < 0.5 defects per story point**Production Incidents:** < 2 P1/P2 incidents per quarter**Code Coverage:** Maintain > 80% unit test coverage**PR Turnaround Time:** < 24 hours for code review feedback**Technical Debt Ratio:** < 5% of total development time### System Reliability**System Uptime:** 99.9% uptime SLA**API Response Time:** P95 < 500ms, P99 < 1000ms**Error Rate:** < 0.1% of requests**Lambda Performance:** Cold start < 2s, warm execution < 200ms### Team Health**Team Satisfaction:** > 4.0/5.0 on team surveys**Retention:** > 90% annual team retention**Skill Growth:** Visible progression in team capabilities quarter-over-quarter**Knowledge Sharing:** Regular tech talks, documentation contributions