Permanent - Technical Lead Developer (S1) - Johannesburg at Unique Personnel

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead and manage selected team, as well as work across multiple teams
• Effectively scope, create, implement and manage design plans, inline with client requirements and best practices, using Agile methodologies
• Write maintainable code
• Balance technical theory with return on investment 
• Model a supportive and productive feedback culture 
• Proactively reach out for feedback in areas of lower skill, calling out hotspots for reviewers to focus on 
• Constantly anticipate the project’s needs and improve grooming to suit it 
• Build roadmaps that balance technical efficiency with maximum value
• Influence test strategies to ensure quality 
• Excellent estimate accuracy 
• Provide strong technical direction and mentorship. Establishing a technical vision, resolving technical disagreements and managing the technical quality of team deliverables
• Ability to discuss technology with the broadest ranges of stakeholders from the form of simplified executive presentations, to in-depth debates with solution architect on the details of tool selection 
• Passively build knowledge and insight in more junior team members
• Share knowledge on soft skills, project management and advanced technical topics 
• Ability to lead a team with great success 
• Hands on coaching and mentorship 
• Ability to manage upwards, downwards and sideways 
• Excellent conflict resolution between any team members 
• Effectively work in 3 or more programming languages
• Effectively delegate tasks to a team and manage deliverables 
• Effectively communicate task requirements to team members
• Effectively guide and lead team members to meet requirements
• Provide technical leadership, ensuring the team uses the appropriate software development practices 
• Implement high-tier algorithms with maximum performance 
• Strong understanding of popular and valuable design patterns 
• Extensive knowledge and experience of data structures, algorithms and the design of relational databases
• Consistently drive high-level vision for style with high team buy-in 
• Influence an entire codebase, while writing a subset of the code 
• Accept feedback and follow when joining a new team with mature practices 
• Organise and design critical-path features for projects and its users
• Experience with a wide variety of toolsets and understanding of the life-and-hype cycles of new frameworks at a deep level 
• Plan and effectively use of the entire team’s skill set to their maximum potential 
• Lead, train, mentor, grow and develop teams 
• Experience to lead the building of common Frameworks that can be used on multiple platforms
• Ability to effectively solve complex problems
• Understand the big picture and break down the problem into smaller areas to be addressed 
• Understand the various ways in which a problem can be solved, and suggest the most effective and accurate solution
• Use facts and data as part of solutioning, to explain and manage the results for business 
• Continuously grow own skills and technical knowledge 
• High EQ and technical ability 
• Ability to create a cohesive branching strategy that serves both development team and business needs
• Enhance ALM experience by rich tag versioning and automating documentation generation
• Extensive experience with SDLC 
• Experience with testing frameworks 
• Experience with CI/CD 
• Understanding of almost every aspect of the infrastructure required for a solution and have optimised it for simplicity and performance 
• Ability to author rich DevOps pipelines
• Ability to run and manage deployments, and anything related to the lead up
• Extensive experience with different software architectures
• Evolve and expand knowledge on architecture, patterns and design 
• Evolve and expand knowledge in cloud technologies
• Participate in management training and meetings
• Advocate for collaboration and mentorship  
• Advocate for improved process 
• Maintain high level of work excellence, while leading a team 

Inherent Requirements    

REQUIREMENTS 

• Minimum of 7 years software development experience, across multiple programming languages and frameworks (minimum of 3 programming languages, 2  frameworks) 
• Relevant industry training / diploma / certification or degree
• Extensive understanding and experience within SDLC 
• Ability to effectively manage and lead a team, collaborate across multiple teams and work independently
• Experience leading and working within an Agile team, successfully delivering Agile based software projects (POC to support) 
• Expertise in designing solutions that interact with multiple components and other software 
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships and clients, effectively 
• Experience developing, testing and deploying system components
• Extensive knowledge and experience of data structures, algorithms, and the design of relational databases
• Ability to continuously perform whilst working under pressure 
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools 
• Extensive experience with version control 
• Extensive experience in source control
• Extensive experience with different software architectures
• Relevant knowledge and experience of technologies, frameworks and tools 
• Extensive understanding of multiple branching strategies 
• Experience setting up instructions for projects, knowing common pitfalls 
• Familiarity with containers 
• Experience designing DevOps pipelines with full understanding of environment progression for products 
• Ability to run and manage a deployment 
• Extensive experience with different software architecture

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE 

• C# 
• Angular 
• Node.js
• Microservices 
• SQL