Senior Development Team Lead
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Role Description The Technical Lead is an enabler in the project team. They are tasked with ensuring the development team on the project is productively working towards the technical delivery goals. They are also responsible for ensuring high functional and non-functional quality, and high code quality. In this role, you are a force-multiplier who achieves success through leading, coaching and guiding others. Specific Role Responsibilities Analysis and design Help developers understand the problem at hand before their build starts, help them with problem decomposition. Provide ad-hoc consultations for developers and do pair-work when necessary (to analyse work inefficiencies and remove technical blockers). Collaborating with internal and client SMEs to deliver complex data mapping solutions for migrations: analyzing, designing and maintaining ETL workflows, resolving issues, testing and providing post-implementation support. In conjunction with solution consultants, specify and direct developers to find and reuse existing solutions for their builds, and to design their code to make future reusability as easy as possible. Help break large build items into sub-items (to enable more efficient and detailed progress tracking), in a way that aids smooth development. Take an active role in understanding the business domain and contributing to requirements gathering. Development Supervise technical quality (e.g., by doing pair-work, ad-hoc reviews, code reviews and spot-checks in promoted code). Give fast, continuous feedback to developers as their build progresses. Support regression testing by teaching and encouraging developers to write automated tests and unit tests. SDLC and process oversight Ensure the SDLC is adhered to by all developers submitting changes. This includes handover sessions ("Three Amigos") functional reviews, code reviewers, test-driven development measures and ensuring good hygiene in the issue tracker. Ensure CI builds are green or being fixed immediately after break. Make sure every release has developer support allocated and problems are picked up without delay. Be responsible for deployment readiness and prepare complete technical stage gates for production releases. Actively raise risks and concerns that impact delivery or cause production issues. Non-functional requirements Enforce correct usage of coding standards within the team. Take responsibility for non-functional requirements (useability, performance, security, etc.). Raise requirements and solutions that introduce issues in this space and work with colleagues to solve. Community and collaboration Remain across company-wide initiatives development practices/principles, components, and tools and implement these on your project. Participate actively in local technical lead forums, communities of practice, guilds and groups to identify problems and provide solutions that enhance development across the organisation. Actively look for weak points (e.g., parts of system that are too difficult/costly to maintain, features with high defect rates, and scalability erns,) and provide solutions to address them. Assist the Head of Development with succession planning. Build depth in the team by delegating technical lead tasks to other developers. Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems. Functional Area Responsibilities Technical leadership of the team to ensure high productivity and quality on your assigned project. Responsibility for non-functional requirements. Experience required Industry Knowledge First class bachelor's degree or higher and/or equivalent experience. Experience of working on large scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change as part of these projects. Confident, and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment. Experience of working with different levels of stakeholders within a project environment. Expert in the FNZ platform, technologies and delivery methodologies Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry. Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team. Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work. Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers. Required Knowledge & Skills Expert in Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server. Expert in web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS. Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions. Understanding of financial products and markets. Understanding of web services. Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools. About FNZ Culture Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens u