.NET Technical Specialist

About PEARSON

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. With revenues over €5.2 billion in 2013 we provide learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulﬁll their true potential. We put the learner at the center of everything we do.

We at Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months. The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 360+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

Technical Specialist (.NET)

Accountabilities

Function in a project team setting.
Is responsible to provide realistic estimates for his and his team tasks and achieve On-time Delivery.
Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact with prompt and professionalism to the teams across different time zones.
Efficient communication of issues/risks/concerns to leads or managers.
Should serve as the Architect’s delegate within the team to propagate design/architectural consistency.
Ensure that code artifacts produced are of the highest quality, conforming to set or agreed upon standard. Should advocate such consistency to all members of the team.
Able to work with maintenance teams and contribute gathered knowledge when requested to do so.
Follows the Pearson processes, agile practices and motivates his/her team members to do so.
Makes optimum utilization of engineering tools and technologies to maintain a high productivity level in the team.
Able to drive technology-based task forces/initiatives for the organization.
Participation in regular performance review cycles.
Align self to organisational goals.
Is able to accept project delivery responsibilities and demonstrate accountability to leadership.
Is able to build competencies in product and technology domain to set expectations.
Be a professional in work aspects as well as conduct with other individuals.
Maintain a sense of individuality in thinking and decision making.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / MIS, Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics or equivalent experience required.
Minimum four (4) years of experience in software engineering and design and preferably some experience in a leadership role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Should have held some authority over the design and architecture of enterprise software products.
.NET Framework ( Framework Concepts , MVC)
Object Oriented Concepts
C# (VB would be plus)
Analytical & Design Skills
Design Patterns (MVC)
ASP.NET ( ASP would be plus)
JavaScript Frameworks (JQuery, Dojo, easyXDM)
Data Layer Architectures and Frameworks (Eg:- iBatis, nHibernate) MSSQL Server & other DB Technologies
HTML, JavaScript, CSS
JavaScript Frameworks (Eg:- jQuery, DoJo, easyXDM)
HTTP / WCF Web Services (SOAP, REST)
Knowledge on Architectural Patterns is an added advantage
Knowledge on Unit testing and testing frameworks (nUNit, Selenium)
Knowledge on Open Source Technologies is an added advantage
Knowledge on any other programming language (JAVA, PHP, C++, VB, VB.NET) is an added advantage

Please go to the following link and submit your CV: http://pearsonlankavacancies.peopleshr.com/