Lead Developer - Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Role & responsibilities

• Participate in discovery phase.
• Provide estimation of business requirements.
• Highlight possible flows and inconsistencies in business requirements
• Work closely with software architects and business analysts to ensure requirements are crystal clear and properly translated into work packages.
• Assign tasks to relevant development resources.
• Review estimates with developers to assure business requirements can be delivered on time with the desired code quality (only in case developers have raised concerns around estimation).
• Work closely with clients and developers on resolving issues related to design and requirements.
• Implement efficient and effective strategies for software development.
• Ensure that development coding standards, policies and procedures are strictly followed.
• Ensure all team members apply same technologies, tools and techniques during development lifecycle.
• Provide high level solutions and estimations for business needs based on accumulated business knowledge.
• Review Functional Specification Documents and highlight possible flaws, deviations from initial business requirements or new functionalities being pushed through updated requirements and designs.
• Ensure that the final deliverable within the development team satisfies the business requirements as specified.
• Ensure that projects are accurately estimated and delivered to schedule.
• Demonstrate flexibility to respond to change in business requirements.
• Contribute to the process of continuous improvement by highlighting pain points in the projects phase pre-sale, discovery, planning, development/delivery.
• Demonstrate ownership of all work developed by the team members.
• Ensure project workflow is strictly followed by all team members.
• Train and integrate new team members and proactively support the continued development of existing team members.
• Build and promote a positive working environment for the team.
• Effectively manage team members in line with company policy and procedures, including performance, development, disciplinary and conflict resolution with effective feedback.
• Implement team goals and objectives.

Preferred candidate profile

Essential Skills:

• At least 5 years of Adobe Commerce (Magento) development experience.
• Solid understanding of web technologies, usability, and information architecture.
• Understanding of platform and browser compatibility issues.
• Proven experience in developing in Object orientated PHP.
• Strong understanding of Object Orientated programming techniques
• Experience of GIT version control system
• Very good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and be highly organized.
• Detail oriented, self-motivated.
• Ability to communicate professionally with everyone, both internal and external.
• Very comfortable in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Magento Enterprise (Adobe Commerce edition).
• Magento Certification.
• PHP / Zend Certification.
• Experience in: Jira, Agile Development.
• Experience using web services and APIs.
• Understanding of test-driven development.