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About the role
The Developer IV leads technical modernization efforts across Wheels' application landscape, with a mandate to evolve legacy systems toward a modern, AI-enabled architecture. This role owns the technical roadmap that connects day-to-day support of mission-critical legacy applications with the organization's broader goal of becoming AI-first, identifying where AI tooling, modern integration patterns, and cloud-ready design can reduce technical debt, accelerate delivery, and improve system resilience.
What they're looking for
- Remain customer focused by creating useful internal and external collaborative relationships
- Demonstrate problem-solving and resourcefulness by obtaining results through decisive action
- Work independently in an organized and structured manner, consistently achieving thoroughness and accuracy while successfully juggling competing priorities
- Think architecturally, balancing near-term delivery against long-term technical debt and modernization goals
- Demonstrate fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a practical, evidence-based approach to evaluating new technology
- Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders
More about this role
The Developer IV leads technical modernization efforts across Wheels' application landscape, with a mandate to evolve legacy systems toward a modern, AI-enabled architecture. This role owns the technical roadmap that connects day-to-day support of mission-critical legacy applications with the organization's broader goal of becoming AI-first, identifying where AI tooling, modern integration patterns, and cloud-ready design can reduce technical debt, accelerate delivery, and improve system resilience.
The role blends hands-on technical leadership of the legacy systems programming team with a forward-looking architecture mandate: evaluating, piloting, and scaling AI-assisted development practices, and building the case for, and executing against, a modernized technology stack.
- Serve as technical lead for the legacy systems programming team, guiding, reviewing, and directing technical work to ensure business needs and modernization goals are met.
- Act as technical team leader on projects, coordinating development and modernization efforts from architecture design through implementation.
- Instruct, coach, and mentor team members, including on AI-assisted development tools and...
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