Description
Job SummaryWe are seeking an experienced Development Team Lead with a strong technical foundation in full-stack client-server application development using Microsoft technologies within an enterprise environment. This is a hands-on leadership role, responsible for providing technical direction, line management, and mentoring to a team of onshore and offshore developers, while actively contributing to the design and development of high-quality software solutions.The role requires close collaboration with the Software Development Manager, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and QA teams to ensure successful delivery of enterprise and cloud-based SaaS applications to time, budget, and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide functional and line management to a team of onshore and offshore software developers.
- Coach, mentor, and support team members to ensure consistent performance and professional growth.
- Proactively identify and address performance issues, maintaining high productivity and morale.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing, multi-disciplinary team culture.
- Actively participate in architectural design decisions and influence the selection of technologies for current and future product suites.
- Ensure all software designs and implementations adhere to agreed technical architecture, coding standards, and NEC quality processes.
- Identify opportunities for process and technical improvements and work with the Development Manager to implement them.
- Perform hands-on, full-stack development of enterprise client-server applications.
- Design and develop high-quality features using appropriate technologies across backend and frontend layers.
- Ensure software is robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable.
- Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, estimation, design discussions, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to understand and deliver functional requirements.
- Ensure compliance with development governance practices including:
- Coding standards and peer code reviews
- Unit and integration testing
- Automated testing and UX guidelines
- Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and industry best practices to keep development capabilities current.
Essential Skills & Experience
Leadership & Delivery:
- Proven experience leading complex enterprise software development projects with teams of 10+ developers.
- Strong experience managing distributed teams, including onshore and offshore resources.
- Demonstrated success working within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal, motivational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Highly analytical with strong problem-solving capabilities and a continuous improvement mindset.
Technical Skills (Mandatory)
- 10+ years of experience developing enterprise software solutions.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- C# with .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 8.0
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Object-Oriented Design and Development
- Windows Services
- RESTful APIs and Web Services
- Service-oriented / component-based architectures
- Microservices architecture
- Frontend and desktop technologies:
- WPF with MVVM
- React.js, TypeScript
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Experience developing high-performing, multi-threaded, real-time applications.
- Strong experience with:
- Unit testing and mocking frameworks (e.g., Moq)
- Dependency Injection
- Source control tools (Git, TFS)
- Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
- CI/CD pipelines
Nice To Have
- Experience developing cloud-based SaaS applications.
- Exposure to Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native architectures.
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