Development Team Lead
Our client, a leading technology company based in Brighton, is seeking a Development Team Lead to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a small development team, working closely with other team leads to drive performance and engagement, and participating in the development of the technical strategy.
About the Role
The Development Team Lead will be responsible for:
* Leading and line managing a team of developers, ensuring high levels of engagement and empowerment to deliver brilliant work.
* Working closely with other Development Team Leads to drive performance and engagement throughout the development teams.
* Participating in the development of the technical strategy in collaboration with key colleagues.
* Ensuring the team understands, feeds into, and is aligned with the technical strategy.
* Providing technical and process guidance to ensure sound application design and quality practices are followed.
* Direct liaison with customers to provide technical consultation and guidance.
* Assisting and supporting Business Analysts to produce solution designs for customer projects.
* Involvement and input in solution and architectural design.
* Providing sound decision making for software development.
* Actively sharing knowledge with the wider Developer community.
* Contribute to core product development.
* Fostering collaboration and communication amongst team members.
* Participating in cross-functional process improvement initiatives.
* Staying abreast with technical development and trends.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have:
* Thrives on problem solving, loves grappling with complexity, and can make difficult concepts easy to understand using sincere and clear communication skills.
* A friendly "can-do" attitude.
* Collaborates effectively with other disciplines and can be trusted to deliver.
* Excellent software development skills, including C#, SQL, XSLT, Web Api, MVC, and.NET Framework.
* Experience in the design and implementation of services, using WCF or other service-oriented technologies.
* Experience using Visual Studio and Git.
* Excellent Object Oriented design skills, including Design Patterns and SOLID.
* Experience inputting into architectural design and solutions.
* Experience in managing, leading, or coaching team members.
* Experience in providing technical guidance to other Developers and the wider team.
* Experience in TDD (Test Driven Development).
* An understanding of business operations and commercial decisions.
* Experience of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated integration testing.
* Ability to operate independently within defined methodologies, procedures, and guidelines.
* Excellent communication skills and experience working closely with external stakeholders.
* Good problem solving and analytical skills.
* Technical writing skills.
About the Company
Our client is a leading technology company based in Brighton, with a strong focus on innovation and customer satisfaction.