Technical Lead

Department: Technology

Reporting to: Development Manager

Overview of Role

Inspired is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual who has hands-on team-leading experience in the field of software development.

Strong Java / J2EE and SQL skills are required as well as demonstrable experience in MVC frameworks, Spring/ Hibernate, and client-side in JavaScript.

Working closely with key stakeholders - Architecture Team, Product team, and development manager, and solely responsible for the quality and on-time delivery as per product roadmap.

Technical Skills

Core Java (8 or higher versions)

Multithreading experience

Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot

ORM tools - Hibernate

Web services - REST, SOAP

Angular JS

React JS

Node JS

SQL (Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL (MongoDB)

Cloud Computing (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure etc)

CI, CD, Docker, Ansible etc

Specific Responsibilities / Key Tasks

• Work closely with the developers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
• Coordinating closely with your team to stay aligned on business goals and make sure your squad is progressing and delivering against them.
• Supporting and coaching your squad to reach their highest technical levels.
• Co-Ordinate with the Product Owner to prioritize the backlog of user stories and clearly communicate what needs to be done and by when.
• Ensuring software quality, system scalability, and high availability through architectural decisions, best practices, and the management of the QA function.
• Collaborate with DevOps to build a comprehensive set of CI/CD pipelines that allow the team to deliver features on a continual basis.
• Maintaining detailed specifications of software components and assets.
• Ensuring platform performance goals are met.
• Advising the management team on the continued feature development, performance, and scalability parameters of the platform.
• Keeping up on industry trends and communicating opportunities, weaknesses, and threats from a technology perspective to the management.
• Creating consensus and working with senior developers and the Product Team to quickly resolve issues and technology selection questions.
• Measure and monitor the progress of the delivery at clearly defined stages in the process. Make adjustments as necessary.

Competencies

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems.
• Experience using cloud-based server-less technologies, message queues, caching technology, object storage solutions, data storage solutions (relational and NoSQL), API gateways, containers, and container ecosystems.
• Commitment to software practices of Continuous Integration and automated testing.
• Commitment to incorporating quality software practices into all phases of the project life lifecycle.
• Good understanding of key AGILE concepts and/or experience with leading or operating in an AGILE environment.
• Good Knowledge in LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework.
• Experience in leading teams through change.
• Demonstrated ability to grow talent and leverage teams effectively for optimal success.
• Proven track record of strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Knowledge of network protocols and Internet topology.
• Experience with SVN/Git-based source control.
• Strong creative, organizational and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Hands-on approach and self-motivated.

Person Specification

• An Influencer - the ability to influence and implement decisions with confidence, to accept and maintain responsibility, and to maintain the respect of the team and peers.
• A Pragmatist - the ability to envision and implement practical solutions.
• A Motivator - the ability to influence and communicate decisions in a positive light.
• A Communicator - the ability to communicate effectively with team and technical and non-technical peers
• A Problem Solver - the ability to analyze a problem and help find an efficient and pragmatic solution