Technical Lead

Inspired is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual who has at least 7 years + in the field of software development with hands on team leading experience of 2 years +.

Strong Java / J2EE and SQL skills are required as well as demonstrable experience of MVC frameworks, Spring/ Hibernate and client-side in JavaScript.

Working closely with key stake holders - Architecture Team, Product team, development manager and solely responsible for the quality and on time delivery as per product roadmap.

Technical Skills

Core Java (8 or higher versions)

Multithreading experience

Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot

ORM tools Hibernate

Web services – REST, SOAP

Angular JS

Node JS

SQL (Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL (MongoDB)

Cloud Computing (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure etc)

CI, CD, Docker, Ansible etc

Specific Responsibilities / Key Tasks

• Work closely with the developers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
• Coordinating closely with your team to stay aligned on business goals and make sure your squad is progressing and delivering against them.
• Supporting and coaching your squad to reach their highest technical levels.
• Co-Ordinate with Product Owner to priorities the backlog of user stories and clearly communicating what needs to be done and by when
• Ensuring software quality, system scalability and high availability through architectural decisions, best practices and the management of the QA function
• Collaborate with DevOps to build a comprehensive set of CI/CD pipelines that allow the team to deliver features on a continual basis.
• Maintaining detailed specifications of software components and assets
• Ensuring platform performance goals are met
• Advising the management team on the continued feature development, performance and scalability parameters of the platform.
• Keeping up on industry trends and communicating opportunities, weaknesses and threats from a technology perspective to the management.
• Creating consensus and working with senior developers and the Product Team to quickly resolve issues and technology selection questions.
• Measure and monitor progress of delivery at clearly defined stages in the process. Make adjustments as necessary

Competencies

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Experience using cloud based server-less technologies, message queues, caching technology, object storage solutions, data storage solutions (relational and NoSQL), API gateways, containers and container eco systems
• Commitment to software practices of Continuous Integration and automated testing.
• Commitment to incorporating quality software practices into all phases of the project life lifecycle
• Good understanding of key AGILE concepts and/or experience with leading or operating in an AGILE environment.
• Good Knowledge in LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework
• Experience in leading teams through change.
• Demonstrated ability to grow talent and leverage teams effectively for optimal success.
• Proven track record of strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Knowledge of network protocols and Internet topology
• Experience with SVN/Git based source control
• Strong creative, organizational and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Hands on approach and self-motivated

Person Specification

• An Influencer – the ability to influence and implement decisions with confidence, to accept and maintain responsibility, and to maintain the respect of the team and peers
• A Pragmatist – the ability to envision and implement practical solutions
• A Motivator – the ability to influence and communicate decisions in a positive light
• A Communicator – the ability to communicate effectively with team and technical and no-technical peers
• A Problem Solver – the ability to analyze a problem and help find an efficient and pragmatic solution