Software Engineer Team Lead

As a software engineering team leader, you are responsible for supervising and managing a software development team to ensure smooth team operation and effective collaboration by creating an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture. You can manage your workload, attitude, and behavior to remain positive in challenging situations, with problem-solving aptitude in identifying technologies that can improve quality and process in an Agile development team. You set clear team goals and contribute towards effort estimation within the team. You set a standard for others to follow by actively participating in the growth of individuals and processes through hands-on involvement.

You are encouraged to actively push the boundaries of new technologies to ensure that we choose the most appropriate solutions to deliver our software and to enable you to progress to meet your own potential, whilst also giving junior members of the development team the support, they need to help them fulfil their personal development goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a software engineering team consisting of 5-8 software and test engineers
• Design new features within the designated Ideagen products using Java and open-source technologies.
• Work directly with the Software Engineering Manager, Software and Test Engineers, and other Team Leaders to build cloud hosted and/or on-premises enterprise solutions.
• Work collaboratively with Product Managers, Technical Product Owners, Development Engineers, Test Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure features are delivered to a high standard.
• Collaborate with the UX & Design Team to create an optimal user experience.
• Work within the software development lifecycle to guarantee that products are released according to a predetermined roadmap and within the established release cycles.
• Report on the progress of active projects and highlight any areas of risk against timelines that may affect the ability to deliver the product roadmap.
• Contribute to the Engineering Teams working practices and technology decisions.
• Contribute towards the definition and development of a Sprint backlog to achieve the goals set out by our Product team.
• Provide unit tests to support and validate for any development work undertaken.
• Create necessary documentation relating to work produced.
• Be an advocate of the Agile development practices of the function and work collaboratively with the development team and Scrum Masters to refine processes.
• Review and report team performance regularly. Understand the teams data and workflow and
  collaborate with them on improvement initiatives.
• Review the performance of individual team members and provide timely and effective feedback for improvement.
• Lead with accountability, autonomy, and empowerment within your teams and manage the appropriate boundaries to achieve the result of having self-managing teams.
• Mentor the more junior members of the team and contribute to their development as software engineers.

Requirements:

• Minimum experience of 7+ years in Software Development and 3+ years in team leading.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, in English with different kinds of audience.
• Adequate experience in managing change effectively.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and disagreements effectively.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies/frameworks such as Scrum.
• Proven ability to deliver technical design within an enterprise application using Java.
• Web application front-end development familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Strong Database development experience in MS SQL Server (SQL Server, RDS).
• Knowledge in Search Technologies like Elasticsearch, OpenSearch.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies such as containers, microservices, and declarative APIs, specifically on AWS.
• Knowledge of Secure coding & OWASP.
• Knowledge in CI/CD tools is Preferred.
• Ability to advise on best practices (architecture, testing, web application security, implementation, team dynamics, etc.)

Primary Technologies (Mandatory): Java, SQL.
Secondary Technologies (Optional): Vue.js, Search Technologies like
Elasticsearch, AWS Cloud Knowledge.

Behaviors:
Ambitious - Drive, Planning & Execution
Adventurous - Flexibility, Resilience & Savvy thinking
Community - Collaboration & Communication