Liferay Delivery Leader

Job Description

Liferay Delivery Leader What this job involves:About the role#JLLTechAmbitionsIf you live and breathe digital, we want to offer you a super challenging and exciting role in LaSalles Digital Transformation Team. Imagine using digital technologies to disrupt the real estate investment industry.Our job in LaSalles Digital Transformation Team is to be brave and accelerate the impact of digital transformation by partnering closely with our business units. We prototype ideas, test them in real business scenarios and quickly adapt the solution. Combining data science, human-centered design, and the latest rapid development techniques such as agile, microservices, and DevOps help deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses.We are building a LaSalles Digital Experience (LDX) Platform on Azure for our Digital Transformation. The LDX platform will be powered by multiple COTS/Custom Build applications and unified data and content platforms using tools like Talend, Snowflake, Looker, Liferay, Data Bricks, and others. We have set up a Global Digital Engineering Hub in Bangalore to support LaSalles Digital Transformation Programs global implementation.The position reports to the LaSalle CIO but will be working too closely with Business and Technology leaders across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Digital Delivery Centre in India. This role will be based in London and involve travel between our offices across Chicago, London, Paris, Munich, Luxembourg, Singapore, Tokyo, and Digital Delivery Centre in Bangalore. This close collaboration with function leads ensures a best in class service delivery and increased efficiency and productivity through Digital Transformation and Agility. The objective is to be best in class amongst our peers. Responsibilities

• Oversee the global Liferay platform design, architecture, implementation activities for the digital transformation scope of work
• Lead a team of 20 Liferay engineers across LaSalle offshore and onshore locations
• Ensure the business provided inputs on user experience is implemented in the Liferay platform
• Ensure that the Liferay designs & architecture follow industry best practices and are economically sound. Help the Liferay development teams translate the designs & architecture into quality deliverables
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the Liferay Platform technologies and architectures. Develop and maintain current and planned state architectural blueprints in Liferay
• Maintain consistencies in both Liferay technical and application designs to fulfill the architectural requirements related to applications, middleware, virtual servers, and operating systems. Develop and communicate guiding principles, governance structures associated with the selection of Liferay components.
• Manage the technical project delivery; perform code reviews, and collaborate with vendors to resolve technical challenges
• Develop detailed design, define activities and scope of work for implementing use cases in Liferay Platform
• Work with the cloud architecture team to ensure Liferay Platform is implemented correctly in the Cloud platform. Drive continuous integration/deployment - CI/CD, High availability infrastructure, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning Service, etc.
• Develop architectural solutions for databases, user interfaces, and web services for Cloud solutions to create a more seamless end-user experience
• Assessing as-is IT service, application, and technology estate in defining the target (to-be) state IT service, application, and technology landscape (architecture), producing business case/ roadmap in Liferay

Sounds like you To apply, you need to be:Experience & Education

• At least 15 years of technology delivery experience; last six years in implementing Liferay Platform (DXP experience preferred)
• Experience in developing Liferay based portlets, web services, hooks, extensions, configuration/customization of Liferay Portal and with Liferay MVC
• Experience in leading offshore Liferay engineers
• Experience working in Java & J2EE Technologies (Servlets, JSP) and Web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
• Experience in Integrating Liferay with 3rd party applications
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to identify, translate and present to a range of audiences, acting as a translator between parties (Business Stakeholders and Digital Delivery Team)
• A proven ability to multi-task and a client-service mentality with good problem-solving skills and the ability to influence
• Superb written and verbal skills, including the ability to communicate between technical and non-technical contributors and communicate between the project team and senior leadership
• Excellent project management skills disciplined and an ability to prioritize, strong organizational skills, commercial.
• Bachelors degree in an Engineering / Science / Commerce discipline. Advanced degree preferred.

Desired Technical Skills & Competencies

• Knowledge in Application Architecture, Application Security covering business process flows, data flows, data models
• Knowledge preferred in the following technical subjects such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, GCP), Jenkins, Maven, NPN, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Angular 2, Node.JS, Microservices, Java, .NET, etc.
• Experience with DevOps and Cloud development tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, GIT, Confluence and Visual Studio, Eclipse. Strong understanding and knowledge of Web services, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), and EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
• Working knowledge of the following programming languages: Java, JSON, PHP, React JS, Python, PowerShell, Azure CLI, etc. Cloud configuration management/automation tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Playbooks, Playbook Workflows, YAML, Puppet, etc.
• Energy, drive, and passion for working and operating in a digital world. Ability to operate in a start-up mentality and unstructured environment
• Superb written and verbal skills, including the ability to communicate between technical and non-technical contributors and between the project team and senior leadership

What we can do for you:At JLL, we make sure that you become the best version of yourself by helping you realize your full potential in a fully entrepreneurial and inclusive work environment. If you harbor a passion for learning and adapting new technologies, JLL will continuously provide you with platforms to enrich your technical domains. We will empower your ambitions through our dedicated Total Rewards Program, competitive pay, and benefits package. Its no surprise that the Ethisphere Institute has recognized JLL as one of the 2019 Worlds Most Ethical Companies for the 12th consecutive year.LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) is a global real estate investment manager with $66 billion of private and public real estate assets under management and over 750 people in 17 countries and 24 offices worldwide. Our diverse investor base includes public and private pension funds, insurance companies, governments, endowments, and high net worth investors from across the globe. LaSalle sponsors separate private accounts, private open and closed-end commingled funds, and public real estate securities programs. As a wholly-owned member of the Jones Lang LaSalle group, LaSalles investment teams also draw on our parent companys intelligence and resources, giving us unique access to market opportunities and key industry leaders.Apply today!Required Skills:Application Integrations, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Development, Cloud Solutions, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), People Management, Process Flow, Project Management, Technical ProjectsOptional Skills:Adapting Quickly, Cloud Based Services, Cloud Platform, Leading Project Teams, Project Delivery JLL Privacy NoticeJones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously. Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL s recruitment process. We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons. We will then delete it safely and securely.For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement .For additional details please see our career site pages for each country.For employees in the United States, please see a fully copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policy here .Jones Lang LaSalle ( JLL ) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process including the online application and/or overall selection process you may email us at Accommodation.Requesam.jll.com . This email is only to request an accommodation. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.,

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