SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEAD
6 MONTHS+
£375-£400 PER DAY
STOKE-ON-TRENT
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensuring timely provision of agreed deliverables throughout the SDLC by understanding both business and technical requirements.
- Working alongside Technical Leads and Architects to determine the most suitable technical solution.
- Scheduling and planning development resource according to business needs.
- Clear and regular tracking and reporting of progress.
- Mitigating risk and resolving blockers throughout the work.
- Collaborating with other teams within the business as required.
- Leading by example.
- Understanding and enforcing governance of best practises.
- Recognising team members’ strengths and mentoring them to encourage and support continuous improvement.
- Chairing team meetings, team 1-2-1 sessions and feeding in to team appraisals.
- Assisting in the administration responsibilities of the team as reasonably directed by your line manager.
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Forward thinking and ability to challenge the norm.
- Ability to work pro-actively in a reactive environment.
- Passion for software development and creating efficient processes and best practises.
- Self-motivated with a strong drive to succeed.
- Capable of handling large workloads with rapid context switching.
- Strong appreciation of the importance of knowledge sharing and mentoring.
- Commercial experience leading a development team.
- Commercial experience with n-tier architecture and relational databases.
- Using source control across multiple developers and work streams.
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Commercial experience with large scale architecture.
- Service orientated architecture.
- .Net
- MS SQL
- NoSQL experience such as Riak
- Erlang
- Golang
- Akka
- Git/GitLab
- Jira Software
- Jenkins
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEAD
6 MONTHS+
£375-£400 PER DAY
STOKE-ON-TRENT