Tech Lead - Business Intelligence at Ntice Sourcing Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Manage the technical aspects of the solution delivery and systems within the domain.
• Understand the focus and direction of the business area; prioritising and driving delivery that helps to achieve this.
• Define the technical direction for the domain and ensure design of solutions and work closely with the domain owner of the domain.
• Involvement in the running of the domain, including sprint planning, design, drive delivery, retros, understanding root cause of issues/instability.
• Responsible for the quality of technical solutions, maintenance of standards and managing impact/risk introduced by changes across domains.
• Review code and approve changes before deployment to production.
• Assist with technical analysis, root cause analysis and designing preventative actions.
• Oversee the choice of application and approach to development for the delivery of new system/technical solutions by the developers.
• Work with the Architect, other Tech Leads and Development Manager to understand and drive the strategic direction of the technologies within Institutional IT.
• Ensure domain technical direction is aligned with overall tech direction/architecture for Institutional IT, and overall tech direction caters for needs of the domains.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement of both systems and architectural standards and help drive implementation.
• Timeous, clear tracking, management and appropriate escalation of issues and risks.
• Ensure systems documentation for support are produced as required.
• Ensure a stable and sustainable technical platform is in place to support the business area.

Manage the developers in the domain:

• Lead a team of developers (+/- 5 developers) in the domain, according to skill set.
• Carry out all aspects of people management i.e. staff performance appraisals, approve leave, recruit, train, develop and mentor staff.
• Responsible for assigning work to the developers, determining estimates, overseeing technical design and driving delivery according to our SDLC procedures and standards.
• Ensure the correct technical skills are in place in the domain to meet business needs.
• To make a personal contribute to our technical solutions.
• Develop key solutions that add to our central technical stack or contribute to our initiatives.

Requirements:

• Experience with managing a development team and driving team delivery.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in interacting with business users to understand their requirements and managing the implementation of system changes.
• At least 8 years' worth of professional development experience - able to perform at a senior developer level.
• Exceptional skills in writing SQL for Microsoft SQL server, including stored procedures, UDF's and other T-SQL Querying.
• Experience with data integration, validation and reconciliation (SSIS or similar).
• Expert knowledge of reporting technologies (SSRS, PowerBI or similar)
• Experience in analysing data and performing complex data manipulation using Microsoft SQL.
• Design and implement relational and dimensional database structures.
• Experience with creating and maintaining cubes (SSAS).
• Experience working in AWS Cloud implementation would be an advantage.
• Exposure to PostreSQL would be an advantage.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing.
• Excellent leadership skills - able to direct, motivate, delegate, inspire.
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way.
• Ability to deal with key stakeholders within company.
• Willingness to take initiative and responsibility.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Self-motivated and confident.
• Ability to work individually and with teams.
• Degree or diploma in computer science, computer engineering, information science or related technical discipline is an must.