Principal Technical Consultant

**Principal Technical Consultant**
**Bogota, Colombia**
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**ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED**

**The Opportunity**:
We’re looking for a Principal Technical Consultant to help us push the boundaries of what education can offer through the power of technology. Education is our passion, and our team members bring that to work each day as they aim to advance learning in every region of the world. Blackboard is the world's leading education technology company, providing dynamic products and services to the global education community. We’re focused on driving innovation in EdTech and working with our clients to create a smarter learning environment.

At Blackboard, we believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices, but who we are as a company.

The Software Solutions Team is focused on advancing learning, fueled by data informed decision making. Blackboard’s Global Client Experience team works with clients to solve a wide variety of technology challenges. Using both industry standard and cutting-edge technologies, our consultants develop innovative, custom solutions that extend, enhance, and integrate Blackboard’s enterprise products. As a Lead Developer on this team, you will play an integral role in the success of the Software Solution team within Blackboard GCX Product Development.

Primary responsibilities will include:

- Serving as an expert in Blackboard products including their architecture, functionality, and deployment methodologies
Designing and documenting development tasks within system of record and helping other team members during implementation
- Serving as Sprint Planner and leader of the development project
Developing in an agile environment using web technologies
- Creating REST API using OpenAPI standards
- Leading in code review
- Being accountable for the project unit, integration, performance, and functional testing and results of the project
- Researching and experimenting with new technology that will advance future projects introducing efficiencies of overall development
- Helping to create and maintain development guidelines and direction
- Working with managers to estimate work tasks and level of effort within project timeline
- Adhering to established delivery methodology, quality standards, and best practices
- This role requires approximately 20% travel
- Required skills/qualifications:_
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent relevant educational experience
- Minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience
- 5+ years of software development lifecycle and associated processes
- Strong skills at OpenAPI REST engineering using object-oriented JavaScript, Async event management, using Server-Side libraries and/or serverless microservice frameworks
- Mastery at backend engineering using object-oriented Java
- Spring, Java-Dropwizard, MongoDB/DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and other libraries
- Fluency in cloud-based loosely coupled architecture patterns and microservices design
- Demonstratable understanding of web tokens, data transformations, transitions, and events driven design
- Ability to incorporate user-centered design principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills
- Proven ability to learn new technologies as needed
- Ability to work in a geographically distributed virtual team environment and to build relationships with internal and external organizations
- Time management and prioritization skills; ability to manage expectations effectively when handling multiple assignments simultaneously with competing deadlines
- Exceptional attention to detail, excellent work ethic and drive, great interpersonal skills, team oriented, excellent problem-solving skills
- Fundamental understanding of bug tracking, versioning, and repository systems
- Ability to have a flexible work schedule to meet client needs
- Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above
- Preferred skills/qualifications:_
- 2-5+ years of experience in a client-facing consulting capacity
- Previous experience in the education or knowledge management industry and with e-learning technologies including at least six months specifically with Blackboard technologies
- A fundamental understanding of agile software development process methods
- General experience with Swagger
- Fluency in server-side pre-processing platforms
- Fundamental use of standard digital tools (e.g. Confluence, Lucid Charts)
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git, Stash, and Github
- Experience with mobile optimized REST APIs
- Fundamental understanding of key usages of Jira Bug Tracking, Jira Agile, versioning and repository systems
- Fundamental understanding of key usages of Amazon Web Servi