Development Team Lead

As the leading provider in their field with a powerful presence within the data community spanning the last 15 + years, the organisation needs a Software Development Team Lead with initiative, drive and enthusiasm to join the business and channel their dynamic personality into the team

This is a 'hands-on' role with an expected 50/50 split between team management and coding activities (based on a team size of between 4 -6 resources)

The software portfolio utilises the below technologies:

• C#
• Rest/Web APIs
• Service Orientated Architecture
• Microservice architecture beneficial
• HTML/Javascript/CSS
• Angular/HTML beneficial
• Azure / Cloud Services
• SQL / RabbitMQ
• Dependency injection
• Entity Framework/Other ORM tools
• TDD Unit Testing
• Azure DevOps or similar

On a day to day basis, you will be:

• Accountable for line management / coaching / mentoring / motivating team members
• Responsible for setting objectives across the team, undertaking and documenting 121s and performance reviews
• Involved in communicating effectively with the Product team to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
• Involved in creating and reviewing technical requirements produced from requirements / stories created by Product team
• Involved in questioning and clarifying requirements with the Product team as necessary as development progresses
• Responsible for delivering sprint goals
• Responsible for oversight / ownership of complex tasks or development pieces
• Involved in supporting use of automated acceptance tests where possible
• Accountable for ensuring code reviews are carried out within the team and unit tests are put in place for developed code
• Involved in assisting support teams in bug fixing of released functionality