Software Technical Lead

Essential Responsibilities

Develop and lead a team of software engineers, focused on application software development, from requirements to production release, through to post release support.

Project Management - Ensure preparation and maintenance of detailed delivery plans for new product introductions, primarily using Agile.

Work with other GA Software leaders to share and implement best practice software development, both regionally and cross product line.

Technical vision on implementing a state-of-the-art software solution.

Contribute to the software roadmap, to achieve convergence of a complex product portfolio, to a cost optimized platform solution

Lead the design, code, test, and debug of software.

Team lead shall enforce the below best practices
Enforce process best practices by working on the deviations from team members detected in Jira. Pull request quality improvement. Number of PR fixes suggested by pair shall be reduced to a minimum. Unit test coverage (60% minimum) SonarCube Code smell Collect local team requests and feedback and share it with the right team lead. Monitor ticket progress when reaching end of sprint. Support newcomers’ ramp-up.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Computer Science discipline or equivalent.
• Hands on in back-end software development in Web based applications
• Preferably 10+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years of experience leading a team without direct reports.
• Proven experience managing software development projects from concept through to product release, using Agile
• Strong task and delivery focus, with a collaborative style to get the most from a technical team
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems; both at a technical level and at a people level.
• Strong influencing skills, rather than a dependency on command and control
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
• Hands on experience in web application development using micro-service architecture.

Desired Characteristics

• An understanding of relational and non-relational databases like Timescale
• Awareness of agile development processes (ideally Scrum)
• Evidence of continuous professional development, such as involvement in open-source projects
• Experience in Kubernetes, software cyber security
• Strong communications skills, with a proven ability to work successfully with new and experienced team.
• Ability to demonstrate delivery to time, quality, and budget within an Agile programming environment.

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