Technical Manager (.NET)

Job Title: Technical Manager (.NET)
Job ID: 17471
Location: Cincinnati,OH, US
Full/Part Time:
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Line of Business:Epsilon


About the Opportunity
The Technical Manager is responsible for system design and management of a development, deployment and production support team working on transactional middle tier, XML service layer, batch file import and extract and browser based applications for Epsilon's industry leading Loyalty Solutions platform.

Responsibilities
* Efficiently and effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical internal team members as well as third party client stakeholders.
* Responsible for the management, technical vision, direction and architecture of the interactive development team.
* Gather requirements and analyze, understand and translate those requirements into technical specifications as needed.
* Write technical specifications, participate in design reviews and provide input to design recommendations where necessary.
* Produce design documentation including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and state diagrams.
* Assess performance implications of design trade-offs if necessary
* Perform and manage development in a high volume, multi-tiered, transactional environment.
* Design and develop software to support Real Time transactions and transactions sourced from files.
* Participate in code reviews and ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications.
* Perform unit and code testing and identify, troubleshoot and solve code-related issues as needed.
* Applications supported will include:
* A custom data retrieval application
* XML web service integration to a high volume WCF service layer
* Enterprise application GUI interface
* Several file extract based integrations

Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree required
* A minimum of 2 years experiencemanaging a development team using Microsoft .NET required
* 5 or more years of development experience with VB.NET and/or C# required (Visual Studio.NET 2005-2008, VB.NET preferred)
* Must have a strong understanding of web services and SOA architecture on .NET
* Experience with XML including XSD, XSLT, XPATH required
* Prior experience with enterprise class application/web development as developer or manager strongly preferred
* Strong SQL knowledge required (Oracle preferred)
* Knowledge and experience in data and database integration techniques including data modelling, data normalization and other relevant data manipulation and data exchange technologies
* Prior experience and ability to work with client teams to develop and implement business requirements and adhere to Software Development Lifecycle is required
* Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.
* Must be detail oriented along with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
* The ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously is required
* Must have proven experience in directing a development team to deliver a high quality product and managing the growth and goals of individual team members
* Marketing technology experience is a plus

Compensation and Benefits
Alliance Data and Epsilon offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive selection of benefit options including 401(k).

Conditions of Employment
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of drug screen and background checks.

About Us
Epsilon is the industry's leading marketing services firm, with a broad array of data-driven, multichannel marketing solutions that leverage consumer insight to help brands deepen their relationships with customers. Services include strategic consulting, acquisition and customer database technologies, loyalty management, proprietary data, predictive modelling and a full range of direct and digital agency services, including creative, interactive web design, email deployment, search engine optimization and direct mail production. In addition, Epsilon is the world's largest permission-based email marketer. Epsilon is an Alliance Data company.