Fun With Recruiters

I love it when I get those special kinds of emails from recruitment agencies who claim they have the perfect position. I got one of those kinds of emails last week, I thought I would share it (as well as my response).

 

Title: Front End Web Development Lead
Position Type: Direct Placement
Location: Bothell, WA, United States
Description:

Duration: 0-6 month(s)
Job Description:
Front-End Web Development Lead – Bothell, WA
Every day over 19,000 Amdocs employees, serving customers in more than 60 countries, collaborate to help our customers realize their vision. We have a 30-year track record of ensuring service providers¿ success by embracing their most complex, mission-critical challenges. 100% of Fortune¿s Global 500 quad-play providers rely on Amdocs to help them run their businesses better.
Amdocs is a ¿can do¿ company that leads the industry, is fully accountable and most importantly, always delivers. This is our DNA. Our success has been sparked and sustained by hiring exceptional people. If this sounds like you— if you have the drive, focus and passion to succeed in a fast-paced, delivery-focused, global environment– then Amdocs would like to talk with you. Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
– Please Note: All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Front-End Web Development Lead to be a team lead directing a multi-shore group of developers tasked with providing issue resolution support for a very large-scale web retail store. Some of the responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:
Interface with defect assurance team to accept inbound production issues for resolution
Direct and coordinate work of offshore development team to ensure accurate and timely resolution of front-end production issues
Interface with customer development, business, and other teams as needed to provide good service, promote team visibility and positive perception
As team grows, evaluate potential additional team candidates and support Amdocs executive management by providing expert advice as required to grow our presence with the customer and provide continuous improvement
Provide analytical support to identify, develop, and drive strategic improvement initiatives involving functionality improvements, innovation solutions, and development and implementation methodologies
Serve as trusted advisor to management and client
Work day-to-day with key client management, development fulfillment partner, QA testing organization, providing expert support to each as needed and appropriate
Support development of improved governance of production defect management, including definitions of severity, criteria for prioritization, and defect management lifecycle processes.
Requirements:
5+ years front-end web development experience
5+ years hands on experience with the following key technologies: JSP Integration, HTML / HTML 5, AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, JQuery
Strong leadership skills
Preferences:
Large scale /enterprise web retail experience
Integration with ATG Commerce
Integration with Adobe CQ
Experience with other industry standard integration technologies (e.g. WebLogic)
Technical leadership experiences in relevant technologies
Telecom experience
All Amdocs roles require strong verbal and written communications skills, position-appropriate mentoring/leadership abilities, ability to quickly master new systems and/or processes, capacity to stay organized while managing competing priorities, and a deep customer service orientation, both internally and externally.

 

I’m a database guy, I’ve never been a developer let alone a dev lead, and so I replied…

 

As a solutions provider I would expect you have have some great analytics. This leads me to ask the question as to what part of my skillset or background leads you, or anyone at your company to believe that I would be a good fit for, or consider the opportunity that you list below.

 

If I ever get a response I’ll be sure to post it.

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