Senior Development Team Lead

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.

Skills Required

Java, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Microservices, Docker, Rest Apis