Application Development Technology Lead

Your Job

As the Application Development Technology Lead for Georgia Pacific Building Products, you will play a crucial role in transforming and managing our critical commodity trading platform. Collaborate closely with product teams to refine user stories, engage in T-shirt sizing, and prioritize activities that drive meaningful progress. Your expertise in tech design, architecture, and framework refinement will guide a global team of engineers in implementing scalable, maintainable, and sustainable solutions. You will ensure timely and high-quality delivery to production, becoming the technical go-to person for your team and a key escalation point for troubleshooting and problem-solving. Additionally, you will represent the development team in various organizational forums, showcasing your leadership and technical prowess. In this position, you will report to the Senior Director of IT.

Location: This position is based at our headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a hybrid work environment, allowing you to balance in-office collaboration and remote work.

Our Team

Join a dynamic and innovative team at Georgia Pacific Building Products, where we are spearheading a multi-year digital transformation of our trading platform. This is more than just an upgrade; it's a reimagining of our operations and customer service. You'll work with passionate engineers, product managers, and industry experts committed to pushing technological boundaries. Our culture emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning, offering ample opportunities for career advancement. You’ll be a key player, making meaningful decisions that shape the future of our platform, all within a company dedicated to sustainability and innovation. Discover more about our mission and values at Georgia Pacific Building Products and envision yourself as part of this transformative journey.

What You Will Do

• Architect Solutions: Shape the tech design, architecture, and framework of our trading platform, ensuring they are robust and future-proof.
• Hands-On Development: Write and review complex solutions that serve as the backbone for further development, paving the way for scalable and maintainable applications.
• Lead and Empower: Guide a global team of engineers, offering your expertise in troubleshooting and problem-solving while ensuring high-quality delivery to production.
• Agile Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product teams to refine user stories, and participate in T-shirt sizing and prioritization activities to ensure timely and quality production releases.
• Stakeholder Management: Represent the development team in various organizational forums, managing stakeholder expectations with clear and effective communication.
• Responsive Support: Provide responsive production support, leveraging your understanding of both legacy and new applications to maintain smooth operations.
  
  
  

How Your Time Will Be Spent

• 30% - Tech design, architecture, and framework refinement
• 45% - Coding, code review, and product support
• 25% - Team & business collaboration/delivery management
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 10 years of application development experience.
• Tech leadership experience with a focus on UI development.
• Proficient in developing applications and responsive UI’s such as ReactJs, NodeJs, SQL queries, and stored procedures.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and understanding of application development within a cloud foundry platform.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Knowledge of application UI integration with SAP S4 Hana through Odata services
  
  
  

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.