Team Lead

• Providing leadership, functional and line management of a team of onshore and offshore software developers ensuring that individuals are performing and delivering to the required standards
• Providing support and mentoring to software developers, to ensure they can perform and deliver to the required standards
• Promptly and effectively dealing with any performance issues to maintain high productivity from the team at all times
• Ensure that all development work conforms to the agreed NEC quality processes and standards and that software is designed, built and delivered to the highest level
• Actively identify opportunities for process improvement and take these to the Development Manager to agree next steps
• Ensure that all software developed conforms to the appropriate technical and design standards
• Hands-on, full-stack software development of features within enterprise client-server applications utilizing the appropriate technology
• Participate in architectural design decisions and the influencing of technologies considered within the current and future product suite
• Participate in Agile SCRUM development ceremonies, planning, estimation, design, retrospectives, and reviews
• Work closely with Business Analysts and the Product Owner to understand the functionality to be developed
• Work within the development governance framework including, but not limited to, adherence to coding standards, code reviews, unit and integration testing, user experience (UX) guidelines, automated testing
• Ensure development skills are kept up to date and maintain awareness of new developments in the software industry

• Proven experience of successfully leading complex software developments with a team of at least 10 developers through the entire development life cycle
• Proven experience of working with formal Agile software development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage distributed teams, including onshore and offshore developers
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to lead and motivate a team to deliver high levels of performance at all times, dealing with any issues promptly and effectively as they arise
• An ability to articulate solutions at all levels and to communicate both technical and non-technical information, depending upon the audience
• Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to interact effectively with internal onshore/offshore colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
• Able to demonstrate a dynamic and enthusiastic approach to software development with a focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Minimum 10+ years’ experience developing software for enterprise applications / solutions
• C# with .NET Framework 4.8 / .NET 8.0
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Object Oriented design and development
• Developing high-performing, multi-threaded, real-time software
• Windows System Services
• RESTful APIs, web services
• Unit testing, mock framework libraries such as Moq, dependency injection
• Source code version control (Git, TFS)
• Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD)
• Excellent communication skills

Experience of development for Cloud based SaaS applications would be a distinct advantage