Technical Lead

Reporting to the Development Manager, a Technical Lead has the following responsibilities:

Supporting the technical direction of an Agile Team, or other assigned project including:

Maintain code quality and assurance including maintenance of coding conventions and management of code reviews.
Work with the Development Manager to highlight areas of process and tooling that can improve code quality and delivery.
Consultation on pre-sales business requirements to provide technical insight and ensure expectations can be met.
Contribute to process of providing high level estimation and costing of the development workload ahead of detailed break-down.
Mentor developers at all levels assisting them with learning and skills improvement.
Work with Development Manager in making high-level system design decisions on both legacy application architecture and green-field projects.
Work with the Development Manager to identify opportunities to build the development skills in the team.
Where appropriate, provision and maintenance of skills assessment within the team.
Identify emerging and upcoming technical developments liaising with the management team to identify those that may benefit future product development.
Deputise in the absence of the Development Manager for day-to-day “staff” issues.

Minimum 2 years in a Technial lead role.
Java 8, Tomcat, AWS (but we will train / certify), InteliJ, (small circa 5{bc2f0c5fbf2663b4d0f6e0c34d5097d2a5d9b5833bdf48086cfa9324f9f68701}) UI JS and Angular. Junit, Selenium, Cucumber, Go CI/CD (like Jenkins)

Programming in Java, working with SQL.
Ability to work in a self-organising Agile environment.
Understanding of quality development (unit tests, integration tests).
Flexibility in working throughout the technology stack.
Excellent leadership and communication skills throughout the complete development team structure
Awareness of the challenges of processing large-scale data sets.