Software Development Tech Lead (Manchester)

at  Datalex

ADDITIONALLY, EXPERIENCE WITH SOME OF THE FOLLOWING IS ADVANTAGEOUS:

• Good understanding of Agile principles with experience leading a Scrum/Kanban team
• Webservice technologies: REST, SOAP
• Development Tools: GIT, Gradle, Ant, Jenkins, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)
• Communication Tools: Slack, Microsoft Teams
• Database: Oracle or MongoDB
• DistributedTechnologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached
• Test Automation frameworks: BDD, TestNG
• Practical experience with DevOps concepts: CI/CD, ChatOps, etc.
• Scripting levels sufficient for sysadmin, deployments, and API interaction an advantage
• Familiarity with source control tools such as GIT
• Strong organizational skills and written and oral communication in English, with other languages a benefit
• Experience with the design and management of applications that support:
• Minimizing single points of failure
• Zero down-time upgrades
• Auto scaling applications that have cold start challenges
• Distributed applications
• Implementing and using metrics to make data driven decisions
• Building systems that negate the need for people to log into servers
• Building apps that run-in containers.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of software industry experience with excellent proficiency in Java and Web Services
• 2+ years managing a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product based company
• Solid experience in design/development of highly available, distributed and scalable application

THE ROLE

We have a vacancy for an experienced, highly motivated Software Development Tech Lead to work in an exciting and dynamic software engineering environment in Manchester. We want to see candidates who have a track record in developing high quality software, working within tight deadlines, and have a continuous improvement and customer-focused mindset. Experience in the travel or retail industry would be an advantage but not essential.
As a Datalex software development team lead you will be responsible for managing a geographically distributed team of highly skilled engineers. You will be a people manager as well as a software technical leader. You will be the software project teams key contact and will utilise well-developed communication skills to lead and facilitate effective problem solving/discussions to key stakeholders within the company. You will be technically hands-on with estimating features, planning, coding, debugging, design, performance and testing of team deliverables.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ability to estimate, document, design, implement and test large features to the highest quality and take ownership of their delivery
• Capable of taking part in technical and business discussions both internally and externally
• Understand the business drivers behind each feature.
• Ensure your team are delivering high quality product and platform functionality, on time and on budget
• Mentor, motivate and train developers within your team both local and remotely.
• Manage the translation of requirements into design and take ownership of documentation for your project deliveries.
• Challenge the status quo – contribute and lead initiatives to improve the software development process. Think BIG!

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of software industry experience with excellent proficiency in Java and Web Services
• 2+ years managing a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product based company
• Solid experience in design/development of highly available, distributed and scalable applications