Back End Technical Lead

Minimum Qualifications:

• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology
• Other Minimum Qualifications, certifications or professional memberships 
• Industry related certifications e.g. Scaled Agile frameworks; Cloud certifications
  
  

Experience Required:

• More than 10 years Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions
  Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. 
• Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. 
• Minimum 5-7 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 20+ technical experts.
• Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions. 
• Proficient in: Java (8+), Spring boot, Docker, Maven, ActiveMQ, SQL, OpenAPI, and AWS CodeCommit
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Development
• Code Review
• IT Applications
• IT Design Driven Development
• IT Knowledge
• Refactoring

Responsibilities:

• To shape, plan, lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Engineering skills, directing system capabilities, priorities, resources ensuring solutions are developed, maintained to standards, practices. 
• To synthesize, mature Engineering Practices (Software; Quality; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams (5-12 teams).
• Lead, manage resources: software, quality engineers, technical system team (50-80 resources), building capacity, capability, competencies in Engineering team.