Application Lead

**Seeking Application Lead
LeapThought is seeking for an Application Lead to join our growing team to be at the forefront of this rapidly growing digitalisation sector within the built environment industry. The ideal applicant is a highly motivated individual with ability to make fundamental contributions to the fields of digitalisation of construction sector.

We are an innovative and globally awarded software company creating a step change in the infrastructure and construction sectors through our next generation digital platforms, products and solutions.

We operate in in New Zealand (HQ), Singapore (SE Asia HQ), Australia, India and US, with our clients spanning Government Agencies, Energy and Resources, Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Transportation & Healthcare.

We constantly look to attract top talent as we continue to grow our already strong and culturally diverse product development, product evangelist and Business Development teams.

As an Application Lead, responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects within scope, budget, and timeline. This role demands exceptional leadership, organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience in Transport domain and looking for a hands-on leader who has ability to go deep into solutions, challenge the existing practices (status quo) and help align to industry best practices.
- Knowledge of Government policies, acts and framework related to development in Transport and Government schemes/programmes will be added plus.
- Expertise in implementing the workflow based systems related to Roads and Rail projects.
- Experience designing and implementing architectures within Government GCC clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) and using other AI/ML systems.
- Monitor and ensure project adherence to CDE standards; sets up a Common Data Environment for the discipline if no overall CDE is set up for the project.
- Discussing digital transformation plans with senior staff members to understand organizational needs and creating the vision for organization’s digital transformation and the infrastructure required.
- Envisioning the user experience for those interacting with digital infrastructure and planning digital framework structures to provide optimal performance to users.
- Handle first point escalation for all technical and process issues.
- Ensure proper communication and quick resolution as a crisis manager.
- Plan and schedule changes, coordinating with different stakeholders.
- Escalate issues to the next level and management in a timely manner.
- Perform RCA for Major Incidents related to his / her tower, follow quality / security process defined for the engagement.
- Perform Trend analysis, identify top few incidents and work with respective teams/individuals to minimize the incidents, hardware/ software troubleshooting.
- Participate in business meetings with various stake holders on a need basis and liaise with different vendors to clarify questions or to resolve issues.
- Design and build secure cloud architecture based on client’s need, CSP and industry best practices.
- Drives security by design approach and culture before and during cloud migration and understanding of right set of security solutions to be integrated onto the cloud.
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills in English to effectively communicate and present information to a wide range of audiences, end users, technical staff, 3rd party vendors, and senior management.
- Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others
- Must be result-oriented and demonstrate a “Can-do” attitude - adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.

**Qualifications include**:

- 10+ years’ experience in Transport domain and help align the solutions to industry best practices.
- Develop complex and highly interactive web-based GUI with technologies such as jQuery/Bootstrap/Angular.
- Hands on experience in JBOSS/Apache server Application configuration / Azure AppServices.
- Experience designing and implementing architectures within GCC clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP) and using other AI/ML systems.
- Integration Architect with specialization in microservices.
- Experience in AD integration & authentication
- Well versed with the overall technical architecture and Integrating with Payment Gateways
- Have good knowledge on Documentum (Open Text) implementation with the knowledge on SFTP Configuration and scheduling will be added plus.
- Have good knowledge on API Gateway management and secure token exchange to call the API services over API Gateway.
- Should have working knowledge of DevSecOps lifecycle, Cloud Automation like CI/CD pipeline, IaC, Terraform etc
- Good Knowledge on workflow-based systems implementation using Oracle BPM suite products.
- Solid coding experience in Python or R is a preferred