Developer Team Lead at Astute - The Financial Services Exchange

About the job

• Astute FSE, based in Midrand is looking a Developer Team Lead to provide quality systems development services for the Astute Information Technology team in order to implement and sustain a best-practice framework. This will be done by employing all the latest & greatest technology in the Microsoft Stack including C#, MVC, WCF, REST API & much more! The C#.NET Developer will be responsible for software application development using C# (C-Sharp) in the .NET development environment, writing business logic facades, MVC web front end application components and self-hosted WCF services.

Key Responsibilities

• Strong ability to provide written and/or verbal explanations on design and technical/functional solutions.
• Contribute to the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of Web applications using the C# language and the Microsoft tech stack.
• Align and build capabilities and services in line with strategic projects and architecture.
• Provide input for the other developers, BAs and Testers, as well as maintain an excellent working relationship with our external software development partners.
• Review current coding practices, as well as implementing and maintaining improvement.
• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages.
• Involved on multiple projects, sometimes in parallel.
• Collaborate with project teams made up of people with diverse and complementary skills.
• Develop responsive web front ends with the latest technology and security.
• Integrate with a variety of Azure Hosted Services.
• Develop and maintain Self-Hosted WCF services with a token based authentication.
• Develop and maintain RESTful API services with a token based authentication.
• Be able to lead a Team in solution delivery.
• Continually guide and mentor Intermediate and Junior developers in best practices and relevant patterns.
•  Encourages autonomy of decision making within clearly defined boundaries.
• Ensures that Security forms an integral part of all practice capabilities.
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, and standards within the DevOps space .
• Lead the Agile processes within the team.
• Manage the roadmap for the team, playing a key role in prioritization
• Resolve conflict in the team when necessary.
• Promote the achievements of the team.
• Interview candidates for technical and organizational fit.
• Hands on execution as part of team. 
• Maintain and increase development quality within project delivery.

Stakeholder Management

• Professional Engagement with internal Astute Departments as clients.
• Professional interactions with all external stakeholders that engages with Astute as a partner, or customer.
• On time, available, engaged and well prepared for interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, and manage expectations.

Testing

• Coding and Maintaining of unit tests for all code developed.
• Assisting Testing team with Use and Test cases.
• Test cases, use cases and unit tests are as an important a deliverable as the code to deliver the project itself.

Process and Process Improvement

• Continuous evaluation of process that is used in the delivery pipeline to identify areas of improvement and proposing refinements to processes.
• Participation in the release process, evaluating what is working, what can be improved and what can be automated and proposing and implementing release process refinements.

Innovation

• Innovative thinking about solutions that is on purpose and holistic in nature.
• Pragmatic approaches to problems and solving the problems.
• Innovative thinking that leads to concrete implementations of the innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent.

Technical Skills

• Relevant SQL knowledge (Tables, Views, Procedures, Functions and Jobs)
• Knowledge of MVC and WCF and Rest API
• Knowledge of Kendo UI beneficial
• Knowledge of IoC beneficial
• Knowledge of Entity Framework is beneficial
• Knowledge of Azure Services
• Web services and APIs, Software Design Patterns, and DevOps.
• Familiarity with Solutions Architecture and/or Enterprise Architecture.
• Good understanding of Data Integration and warehousing tools.
• Domain driven design.
• Evolutionary architecture.
• Advanced testing.
• Design principles.
• Security best practices.
• Distributed architecture knowledge.
• API management and versioning.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in System Development
• Minimum 2 years leading a team of Developers