Lead Developer at Digital Outsource Services (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Purpose:

Reporting to the Product Development Manager, the successful candidate will, as a member of the management team, be required to effectively lead and execute the Development portfolio and related activities. This is a key role for the business that requires an entrepreneurial individual who is able to direct as well as do the work, and who will gain much satisfaction from solving a wide variety of challenging problems and playing a pivotal role within a small and focussed development management team.

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Management of a Software Development team, including recruitment, appraisals and other related management functions
• Attend project kick-off meetings with clients and ensuring all projects are project managed, tracked and delivered upon to customer expectations and within required timelines
• Work together with product owners, business analysts and technical leads to deliver high quality software product
• Taking part in Scrum rituals such as stand-ups, planning sessions, demos and retrospectives
• Taking part in team activities such as collaborative-development and code-reviews
• Taking part in cross-team activities such as knowledge-sharing and documentation
• Helps to achieve Sprint goals
• Solves impediments
• Provide guidance to Product Owners and Business Analysts to assist execution of their respective Agile Projects
• Provide coaching support during regular Agile/Scrum training efforts
• Educate, reinforce, and coach team members and stakeholders in all facets of Agile/ Scrum
• Ensure a proper power balance between Product Owner and Software Development Team
• Works with Product Owners
• Strives to develop a Team into a High Performance Team
• Supports Team building and Team development by utilizing the abilities and skills of individuals, and fostering a feedback culture
• Ensures and supports empowerment of the Team
• Addresses needs efficiently and effectively
• Helps Team to learn from its experiences
• Designing and planning technical solutions to meet business requirements
• Coding and developing features for new and existing products
• Upkeep and maintenance of existing products
• Management of the technical execution of the solution.
• Focus is the integrity of the systems with regards to quality, stability and scalability
• Owns the construction and delivery process of systems developed.
• Deal with internal clients on a technical level.
• Analyse, detect, identify and correct technical problems and deficiencies.
• Transfer of technical knowledge to the team.
• Prepare technical design specifications according to business requirements.
• Ensuring that the Architecture team’s vision is implemented when building or maintaining systems

Essential Requirements:

• Strong leadership and people management competencies
• Leadership experience supporting the delivery of business value
• At least 6 years hands-on development experience
• Computer Science related degree, diploma or similar qualification
• C# Web Development with .NET 3.5 or higher
• Agile / Scrum experience
• Be prepared to work in a 24/7 environment
• Combined F score of 3 and above

Job Competencies:

• Proven experience in internet technology and web development
• Familiarity with CSS pre-processing (e.g. SASS)
• Familiarity with popular JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular)

Personal Competencies:

• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of colleagues
• Stable, adaptable individual who is able to handle stress in calm, mature way
• Must be flexible in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to multi task on a continuous basis
• Well presented, team player with good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• High stress tolerance
• Solution and results orientated