The Lead eCommerce Java Developer provides technical consulting to management, business users, and technical associates and mentors other developers. The primary purpose of the position is to act as a technical resource in designing, developing, and providing support for our ecommerce applications. This role will be an integral part of a development team responsible for the technical aspects of ecommerce related strategic initiatives. This role involves collaborating with engineers and architects to lead continuous improvement initiatives. The incumbent is expected to be a consistently reliable technical professional that can handle all job responsibilities autonomously, while executing at the highest level.Strategy & PlanningWork with business and IT teams to plan new features, gather requirements and provide solutions.Acquire and interpret business requirements, create functional specifications, and determine the most efficient/appropriate technologies.Ability to work with new technologies while showing drive, versatility, adaptability, and creative thinking.Help foster a culture of innovation and out-of-the box thinking.Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates a functional specification, and determines the most efficient/appropriate technologies.Work with users to review standards in determining the best design to meet project requirements.Responsible for leading implementation of approved architecture design.Submit and review technical and process improvement recommendations as a member of the technical leadership team.Acquisition & DeploymentPerform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude for established programming standards, methods, and best practices.Lead team in designing application and database components for new features.Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications, and/or customer requirements to design and build Internet solutions utilizing multiple technologies.Mitigate significant risks associated with projects, which have a high technical complexity and/or involve significant challenges to the business.Collaborate with other teams to ensure shared use of standard tools and processes.Operational ManagementMaintain and modify applications; make approved changes by amending application documentation, developing detailed programming logic, and coding changes.Provide support for critical application problems and issues.Act as a Subject Matter Expert in the discovery and investigation of critical production problems as required.Collaborate with business domain experts to analyze and assess existing business critical functions.Lead in the definition, gathering, development, and documentation of business and/or technical requirements, objectives, deliverables, design specifications and project plans.Lead in requirements gathering and design responsibilities. The ability to create documentation such as technical requirements and high-level design for smaller portions of the system will be needed.Collaborate with other developers, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and applications.Participate in software design reviews and code reviews.Assist in the diagnosis and correction of system issues and software bugs.Incidental FunctionsConduct research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks.Train and knowledge share with development teams.Mentor and coach other developers and/or Professional Apprentices.Project and task management and reporting as necessary.Make presentations to management, clients, and peer groups as requested.Provide off hour support for critical application problems and issues.Analyze performance of programs and take action to correct deficiencies based on consultation with clients and approval of