Engineering Team Lead at Sage

Job Description 

The Software Engineering Team Lead is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives using the identified architecture. Shape and act on an energised vision of engineering for your team based on a working knowledge of team processes, procedures, and understanding of future product roadmaps and an interpretation of future technology trends, methods and tools. You will be leading 1 to 2 SCRUM teams consisting of Software Engineers and Software Testers. Apart from leading these teams you will also fill an active coding and design role.

Job Context

Sage is transforming into a Saas company. To support this transformation, Sage defined multiple key initiatives to focus on the cloud business. One of these key initiatives for the Medium Segment is to release a Medium Payroll Platform and localise it for multiple markets. To drive success of this platform, a full new Software Engineering Team will be established. The Software Engineering Team Lead will lead this team, which is responsible for the Core Product/Platform.

Key Responsibilities Key Accountabilities And Decision Ownership

• Through a style of coaching and feedback, build and maintain high performing teams.
• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
• Work with product managers and experience design early on, to shape product definition so that it can be built in flexible, extensible, and robust way
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting within the Sage guidelines.
• Evaluates progress and results and recommends changes in procedures.
• Thought leader and deliver deep technical expertise for PD that drives colleague engagement, clarity and instils a culture of innovation and execution
• Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers
• Extensive experience with Agile Development, SCRUM.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.

Must Have

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Technology expert in their field.
• Complex problem-solving ability. Innovative and creative thinking.
• Operates with considerable latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
• Proficient with several relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
• Experienced implementing Architecture Best Practices and Patterns like Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, …
• Proven experience in using a TDD approach
• Proven Track record of creating API-first products
• MS Azure experience
• A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution and leading of the team within days of joining the team
• Very good in spoken and written English

Preferred

• Innovative and creative thinking
• 8-12 years relevant professional experience, Payroll and/or financial domain expertise is an advantage

Technical / professional qualifications (technical skills on at least intermediate, preferably expert level):

• Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
• Real world application development experience
• C#.Net
• JavaScript client-side framework (ReactJS)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• REST API / Web API
• Entity Framework or similar
• API development & testing tools – e.g. Postman