Software Engineering Team Lead

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of developers who work with various technologies across our software environment (.Net, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Power Platform).

• Collaborate with product management team to establish product related tasks and schedules.

• Collaborate with Software Architects, Product Managers, and Head of Software Development Team to make technical stack and architecture decisions.

• Act as the business expert on technical and functional components.

• Develop solutions using the best technology available for each scenario.

• Review code and give feedback to help development sub-team grow and embrace efficient and sustainable development practice.

• Ensure the development team adheres to established coding standards and embraces efficient and robust engineering practices.

• Ensure the solution is implemented, involving other development teams as needed, focusing on coordinating their activities.

• Using Agile methodology, lead the development through various stages of App lifecycle.

• Build/maintain the relationship with other software development teams, act as a point of contact and continuously assess the interdependencies, communicate changes and plans across the organization.

• Work within an Agile software development framework setting including developers, and QA to release functionality on a regular basis.

• Ensure the development team adheres to established coding standards and embraces efficient and robust engineering practices

• Partner with Software Architects, Product Management team to contribute to the technical direction of the product team;

• Assist Director of Tech in employee performance evaluation and coaching.

• Assist Director of Tech in designing and implementing new evaluation metrics and participate in goal setting.

• Evaluate and improve the technical skills of software developers. 

• Contribute and develop solutions based on requirements using the best technology available for each scenario and in the estimated timeframe.

• Implement unit and integration tests.
   

Qualifications

• 7+ years work experience, 6 years relevant experience developing solutions and managing development teams.

• 4+ years’ of experience with: .NET, database domain models, n-layered design, OOP; experience with ASP.NET Core 3.1, .NET Core 3.1.

• 2+ years’ of experience with Angular 2+ and TypeScript.

• Experience with IdentityServer4, Microservices, Docker, Serilog.

• Preferable experience with Node Package Manager, Nuget, Xunit, MOQ.

• Good business acumen and business process knowledge.

• Good project management and communication skills (SCRUM experience is a plus).

• Strong data related skills (relational data sets, queries).

• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.

• Good time management and customer relationship skills.

• Solid understanding of software development life cycle.

• Proven ability to appreciate and understand technical environments in a business context.

• Experience in working with complex interdependent processes and departments.

• Strong collaboration, time-management, and prioritization skills are critical to the success of this role.

• Self-motivated, excellent work ethic, strong interpersonal and English communication skills, ability to work in a team environment.

• Experience supporting and maintaining live software applications that supports a global user base as well as working experience debugging unfamiliar code

• Experience with Agile methodology and tools like Jira would be a plus.

• Working experience with Git and AWS

• Experience working with large datasets and various relational DBMS platforms (PostgreSQL, MS SQL – SQL / PL-SQL) and ETL tools.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.