Technical Coach

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Technical Coach to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.
Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience in an agile environment
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one object-oriented language.
• Previous experience supporting high performing Agile / DevOps teams.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others, in any context.
• Practical use of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to design non-trivial systems.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming, Kanban, or Scrum
• Working experience deploying and supporting business-critical, Internet scale distributed systems or high-volume client/server systems.
• Ability to scrutinize provided architectures and suggest optimizations for deployment and minimizing the cost of change.
• Proficiency with the following technologies:
• ? Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, Javascript/Typescript
• ? Frameworks: Spring/SpringBoot, FastAPI
• ? Front End Technologies: Angular/React
• ? Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
• ? Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
• ? CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• ? Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• ? Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL
• ? Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
• ? Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq.
• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity.
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles.
• Proficiency in Agile frameworks and methodologies.
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain.
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization.
• Physical ability necessary to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without any legally required reasonable accommodations that do not pose an undue hardship. Note: If the Company has reason to question an employee’s physical ability to safely and/or successfully perform the position’s essential job functions, the HR team generally will engage in an interactive process to determine whether a reasonable accommodation is appropriate. HR (working with the operation) ordinarily first speaks with the team member directly and they mutually identify the physical demands of the job that are or may be impacted by the employee’s obvious or known condition. Then, if necessary, HR would request medical documentation from the team member’s treating physician or others to confirm the employee’s ability to perform those essential job functions safely and successfully.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience building continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Experience with any of the following: The Testing Pyramid and how to effectively apply it; Multi-threading and concurrency; Debugging, performance profiling and optimization; Object-oriented and service-oriented application development patterns.
• Adept and comfortable communicating with team members and external business stakeholders of all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to find creative ways of improving and simplifying solutions, systems, and processes without getting bogged down in blockers or bottlenecks.

What You Will Be Doing

• Coach teams in our immersive dojo / coaching space.
• Serve as a go-to expert on modern technology, architecture, engineering, and DevOps practices.
• Work with technical teams and leadership to influence and support the engineering culture at the Client’s.
• Collaborate with product teams on reaching the next level of customer delivery.
• Be a mentor and get hands-on with software teams including engineers and architects on learning and applying new ways to solve problems.
• Lead large pairing / mobbing sessions to maximize learning while narrowing focus.
• Design and develop facilitator-led materials related to modern engineering practices or ways of working.
• Bring your real-world software engineering experience to the enablement organization to help build a viable community of technical coaches and practitioners throughout the enterprise.
• Embed with teams to learn their environment and behaviors as a precursor to designing impactful coaching interventions.
• Develop and implement coaching interventions for teams including software engineers and architects!
• Exemplify and demonstrate preferred team behaviors and embody the desired culture. That means it’s important also to professionally address undesirable behaviors if they should arise.
• Contribute to the developer experience platform that removes organization friction from the continuous delivery of value.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.