Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) · 13 hours ago
Technical Team Lead (SCADA)
Washington, DC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
9+ years expWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is seeking a Technical Team Lead responsible for the Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Data environment. The role involves leading a team in the design, development, and optimization of SCADA systems, ensuring efficient data acquisition and processing across IoT systems.
Association
Responsibilities
Acts as an IT Technical Lead for assigned WMATA systems. Provides deep technical expertise and leadership to a team of highly skilled programmers and engineers
Engages with the business to understand their technical needs and leads a group of technical staff to meet these needs. Engages with other IT Department representatives to understand their processes, requirements, and helps to coordinate with these departments on behalf of IT
Guides and mentors the technical team members and identifies and assigns tasks. Also ensures delivery optimization, removes obstacles and coordinates efforts to allow the team members to focus on the tasks at hand
Develops and reviews technical proposals for impact to the architecture and infrastructure as well as coding quality and adherence to IT Department policies and procedures
Identifies operational and project technical risks and issues as well as mitigation strategies to address these areas
Coordinates with Stakeholders about assigned system updates and redesigns. Provides timeframe for work execution, issues management and release dates. Provides transparency to groups with stake in the system design, those who perform Hardware, Software and electrical tasks to system constraints
Exercises creative thinking and ideation to advance WMATA business performance and provides best practice solutions for assigned systems
Leads the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems focused on the infrastructure layer of the technology stack, including networks, storage, and database. Develops reusable and scalable tools to be shared across portal domains in order to collect aggregated data
Provides support during development by code reviewing source, web application program interfaces (APIs), other APIs and Out-of-Box solutions
Maintains system performance for applications and develops new features based on business requirements from Stakeholders
Programs, develops, deploys and manages mission critical applications that support WMATA initiatives. Develops applications using Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Model with Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), SharePoint Designer. Coordinates project planning and execution with internal engineering teams, business partners and technical leaders across the division. Works closely and coordinates with users designing and developing to deliver the right product that improves effectiveness and efficiency in the execution of their mission
Facilitates production support meetings which include Developers, Administrators and Project Managers
Deduces and solves applications issues. Monitors and provides expertise on server farm level administration of SharePoint Servers
Guides and monitors the request process for user access and group access through site collection security and Active Directory. Supplies certificates to servers as needed. Supports and backs up SharePoint frontend web server patching
Guides, reviews, and creates the production of documentation supporting Resilient Technical Solution Development: General Guidelines, Requirements Guidelines, Architecture and Design Guidelines, and Implementation Guidelines. Reviews, and creates documentation aligned with PLM and ISO audit compliance
Develops and implements strategies to provide proactive support to reduce incidents, increase availability, and accelerate deployments
Performs stress tests on applications, redundancy reviews and access review for users
Guides the monitoring and the production support for life-cycle of changes to business systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science with Programming, and Web Application Development
Nine (9) years of experience with concentrations in one of the following technologies: .Net 4.5 or higher, C#, C++, VB, Web APIs, SharePoint Enterprise 2010 or higher, SQL Server 2012 or higher, 2008 R2, QlikView, ODBC, OLEBD, AJAX, JSON, SMOD, XHTML, XSL, XML, CSS, HTML5 or higher, JQuery, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap, SOAP, REST, Oracle 10 or higher, 11g, LINUX Servers
Preferred
SharePoint 2010, 2013, or 2016 Certification
MCS and MCDA
Company
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
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