Technical Team Lead (Western Cape) at Flash Group

Description
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate closely with product leadership to ensure decisions align with achieving and maintaining product-market fit across one or more squads.
• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations.
• Coordinate with Technical Product Manager, Solutions Architects, other teams, and QA to deliver on business requirements
• Proactively identify challenges that impact scalability or business direction, communicate these effectively, and drive necessary adaptations to overcome them.
• Maintain composure during critical incidents or emergencies, providing clarity and direction amidst challenges.
• Lead and influence others to bring order and clarity, ensuring structured progress instead of chaos.
• Propose and advocate for engineering strategies within the collective or discipline, effectively gaining alignment and driving initiatives forward.
• Delegate effectively to balance workloads while using these opportunities to mentor and elevate others within the team.
• Take a long-term view in driving ongoing improvements for the systems and processes within the team.
• Plan and manage individual and team capacity to meet goals and deliverables efficiently.

Requirements

• We are looking for a talented individual to lead an equally talented team of Software Developers.
• This individual will be responsible for the overall planning, execution and success of complex software solutions to meet the needs of the business

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Have a minimum of 6- 10 years of experience in software development    

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• C# .Net Core skills  
• RESTful web services
• MSSQL.
• Experience with microservices architecture and design
• Leadership and mentoring experience 

ADVANTAGEOUS

• Java (Java / J2EE)
• Kotlin
• Identity Server authentication.
• Experience with PHP and React
• Solid grasp of Cloud Native architecture
• Oracle/MySQL
• CI/CD pipelines 
• Azure DevOps 
• OAuth 2.0
• Agile methodologies 

COMPETENCIES 

• Ability to resolve conflict among team
• Utilize strategic thinking to drive ongoing improvements 
• Collaborate with technical specialists proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Ability to learn quickly and share knowledge with others
• Manage teams capacity 
• Accountable and responsible
• Attention to detail, accurate and analytical
• Good reporting and documentation
• Excellent communication