Technical Lead at Standard Bank Group

Job description

Job Purpose

The Technical Lead role has overall responsibility for code delivery for the respective Feature Team Backlog. The TL provides Technical Leadership the team developers and ensures that code quality adheres to agreed criteria while guiding developers to produce software artefacts that contribute to the planned Release Trains.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• End to End responsibility for Delivery and Quality of the software artefacts required to meet the agreed business requirements Discovery phase consultation
• Awareness
• Provide input
• Influence Backlog
• Provide input to Product Backlog and influence prioritisation
• Provide Build estimations for domain artefacts , eg UI, Gateway, Feature, ESB
• Manage resource demand along with Respective ADMS and Resource Managers
• Drive Daily Standups , retrospectives, and enable showcases
• Remove impediments
• Provide technical guidance
• Protect delivery
• Drive Engineering Practices,
• Coding standards as prescribed by SSF and CSF teams
• Test Driven Development
• Continuous integration
• Release Engineering and code synchronisation with other teams participating in a Release Train.
• Stakeholder Engagements
• Act as a Quality Gate for new requirement moving into Team Product Backlog
• Accept/Reject new backlog items based on minimum entry criteria
• Manage Team Backlog
• Drive Sprint Planning and Backlog sizing

Estimations

• Provide Technical Leadership to the team
• Maintain and improve Agile Metrics
• Acceptance Test Driven Development
• Code Deployment - all environments
• Production bug fixes and deployment
• Code Performance tuning adhering to standards provided by DB2/Oracle teams etc
• Code Synchronisation and merging between active branches and trunk
• Ensure that solutions delivered meet Architectural requirements

Preferred Qualification and Experience

Post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Commerce, Business Administration, or related discipline with an information technology focus, or equivalent.

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise

• At initiative Start
• Participate in release planning up front and provide high level estimations
• Identify possible technical project impacts especially if using re-usable components.

During development

• Code check-ins must be to valid JIRA tasks in the technical project. (This will keep the release notes continuously updated and valid)
• Components that are completed must be released early. (This will avoid release management bottlenecks)
• Downstream components must be released early. (This is to remove external dependencies on non-project resources)

Before release

• Work Closely with Technical Release manager to co-ordinate release train dependencies
• Check maven dependencies and ensure there are no snapshot dependencies
• A JIRA release is created with the correct release number
• All tasks completed are assigned to the fix release.
• The release notes are in JIRA (This should be automatic if JIRA principles are followed)
• A dry release has been performed and is successful
• The relevant Code QA's has been done
• There are no Critical issues in Sonar
• Bamboo build is running successfully for the project and its dependencies.
• Code test coverage is sufficient.

Deployment

• Manage and monitor deployments into diff environments
• Work Closely with Technical Release manager to co-ordinate release train dependencies

Closing Date: Dec 18 2017