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Short Description:

This Product Specialist is a technical team lead for the CACFP application. Primary responsibility  is to serve as a Technical lead for a outsourced development team to ensure advancement and facilitate productive use of a product for Application Teams.

Complete Description:

While this position is technical in nature a qualified candidate will be responsible overseeing development from a technical perspective.  This oversight requires technical aptitude in areas of the .NET Framework.  An IDEAL candidate would have functioned as a vendor manager/PM in the past.

Environment: .NET

Years of Relevant Experience: 8 years

Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study. Masters degree is preferred.

Role Description:

*Prior experience in application designing, coding, testing and deployment

*Understand the existing system, design and develop application enhancements according to Dept required standards

More role description:

•Actively contribute as an expert or actual designer.

•Coordinate product design reviews to verify that design meets quality standards and functional/technical requirements.

•Provide accurate estimates for design and programming efforts for system changes and

enhancements.

•Coordinate enhancements to business and logical data models with data base administration

to make the appropriate changes to the physical data model.

•Confirm that technical architecture will support all changes required by product

enhancements.

•Identify appropriate business examples to illustrate key concepts / features.

•Anticipate, identify, track and resolve issues and risks affecting own work and work of the Application Team. Develop contingency plans as necessary.

•Make sound recommendations on functional and technical improvements to the application.

•Analyze the functional and technical impact of product planning decisions.

•Develop appropriate functional and usability standards.

•Track and document expected volume and type of use of the product.

•Participate in product design reviews to verify that design meets quality standards and

functional/technical requirements.

•Apply specific expertise to ensure that products meet defined customer objectives.

•Anticipate and resolve issues specific to the team.

•Determine time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.

•Identify and track issues, risks and action items.

•Perform impact analysis on enhancements to establish priorities.

•Accurately sets severity of identified defects.

•Provide input to training and / or documentation materials regarding latest technical and

functional design changes.

•Complete assigned tasks.

•Strong communication skills; both written and spoken

Skills: