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Technical Lead, Client Engineering — London, UK

Yesmail™ is a leading online relationship marketing company specializing in email marketing for customer acquisition and retention. Yesmail's solutions are the product of best practices and knowledge accumulated from tens of thousands of campaigns. We work with Fortune 1000 corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Cingular, Macy's, Nine West, Stanley Tools, Kodak, HSN to help them leverage the email channel to manage their customer lifecycle and get more performance out of the efforts. We take pride in our best practices accumulated and actively work to educate the marketplace how to approach email-marketing issues, including permission, privacy and avoiding channel burnout.

We are looking to further expand our market and product leadership by bringing in new engineering talent to help customize our application to each client's exact requirements.

The Technical Lead will lead a small team to architect and implement custom solutions for Yesmail's clients. The Technical Lead must possess the leadership and technical skills to be a point of escalation and is empowered to make technical decisions based on organizational standards and guidelines. Design responsibilities include writing formal engineering specifications and developing time estimates for implementation. The Technical Lead will also supervise the work of team members to insure that engineering efforts produce high quality, low maintenance, and scalable solutions for clients. The position should be 30% design/supervising and 70% coding.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client to customize Yesmail's email marketing and analytics application according to their unique marketing objectives and functional requirements.
• Responsible for scope, design and implementation of all project work on the team.
• Provide day to day assistance to onsite & offshore engineers and production developers to support the teams' accounts
• Supervise team engineer's compliance with engineering guidelines and standards
• Develop specifications for client request for application extensions
• Design & Develop data integration solutions between Yesmail Platform & client systems
• Develop custom reports for clients

Experience

• Five to nine years experience developing and implementing business applications in a fast-paced environment
• Strong Experience with SQL and Oracle databases including PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages
• Strong Experience with Java, XML, Web Services Technology with an eye for re-usable components
• Demonstrated development experience with HTML and JavaScript
• Strong Proficiency in Korn Shell Scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Passionate about measurable client success
• Ability to work well in a collaborative team-oriented environment

Education

BA/BS required, Computer Science or related degree preferred

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary based on assignment.

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