Developer Lead Job (Irvine, CA, US)

Taco Bell, a part of Yum! Brands, has been repeatedly named as one of the Best Places to Work in Orange County. We have high standards for ourselves; Yum commits to consistently deliver 10% EPS growth each year. Our success comes from the belief that our people's capabilities are our greatest asset, and investing in you is our top priority.

Yum! Brands, Inc. is the world's largest restaurant company with more than 38,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and territories and more than 850,000 employees worldwide. We are the leading restaurant retailer in many emerging markets. Our restaurant brands -- KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell -- are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories respectively.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Development Team Lead is responsible, under minimal supervision, for facilitating the technical leadership of a development team that integrates with, and supports, a POS platform in 6500 restaurants.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Provide technical leadership for the integration and support of an enterprise level software application which directly impacts the customer facing functionality of all Taco Bell restaurants

· Provide technical leadership and coaching for the development team

· Provide technical insight and make design decisions contributing to the support and improvement of both the software application and the underlying infrastructure (including OS management)

· Work in cross-functional teams to help drive projects impacting the POS

· Act as a POS project SME by providing a well-rounded viewpoint that encompasses technical, business and team considerations

· Provide and assist with technical work-effort estimates

· Provide technical insight into architecture designs interfacing with the POS platform

· Create and maintain clear and concise documentation where required

· Help ensure standards compliance and maintain best-practices (particularly with regard to change management)

· Conduct ad hoc and manual code reviews and participate in ongoing peer code review

· Collaborate with key stakeholders, including architects, infrastructure engineers, developers, QA engineers, project managers and executive leadership

· Responsible for orchestrating the successful delivery of software to our stores

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

· Bachelor of Science/Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent experience

· Professional experience with OOP and OOD (5+ years, Java/C# preferred)

· Professional experience with non-managed code (5+ years, C preferred)

· Professional experience providing technical leadership to a development team (3+ years)

· Professional experience developing and maintaining software in a highly distributed environment

· Solid knowledge of both Windows and Linux/*nix operating systems

· Functional basic networking knowledge and academic understanding of networking principles

· Functional basic relational database knowledge and academic understanding of relational database principles

· Ability to pick up scripting languages with little lead-time

· Experience working with both waterfall and agile environments

· Able to provide accurate time estimates of required work and lead an effort to deliver on those estimates

· Maintain satisfactory working relationships with team members and clients as required to successfully complete assigned tasks

· Academic knowledge of formal methods and predicate logic

· Experience with version control software

· Experience of both successful and failed software projects

· 5 -7 years experience in programming and software support

· Excellent leadership skills

· Strong organizational/time management skills

· Good oral and written communication skills

· Critical thinking/Creative problem solving ability

· Independent and self-motivated

· Natural team player

· Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects concurrently and easily adapt in highly dynamic environment

· Experience developing and/or supporting a revenue-generating system is a plus

· Experience developing and/or designing web services is a plus

· POS application integration/development experience is a plus

· Working knowledge of PCI-DSS is a plus