Tech Lead - Software Development

About the Team/Role

Directs the activities of a software systems development function, software applications development function, and a software quality assurance function for software enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

How you’ll make an impact:

Team Collaboration

• Support applications both during and outside business hours.

• Research issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently. Engage in discussions and propose solutions.

• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.

• Participate in and lead team meetings and feature discussions.

Software Design and Architecture

• Create basic designs for new and existing features.

• Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget.

• Participate in code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, standards, and best practices.

• Deliver software that meets requirements by learning the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.

• Write code that is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end.) 50% hands on coding.

• Assist in increasing unit test coverage.

• Review requirements and provide meaningful and timely feedback to improve them.

• Ask questions to ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction set by your team and Architects.

• Participate in estimation and prioritization of project requests.

• Establish relationships with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Product Owners to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.

Project Implementation

• Contribute to the prioritization of performance improvements and technical debt.

• Understand common security vulnerabilities and best practices defined by Architects to reduce risk of security threats.

• Design and develop technical solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from.

• Product Proficiency

• Understand your team’s product domain and act as an internal subject matter expert. 

• Basic knowledge of multiple product domains.

• Able to discuss application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.

Leadership

• Help others complete tasks to accomplish goals; step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met.

• Serve as a mentor with an ability to onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly.

• Participate in the interview process and provide valuable hiring recommendations.

• Provide technical and domain guidance to internal and external team members.

• Lead features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases.

• Recommend ways to distribute work across your team to increase development efficiency.

• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments.

• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem-solving.

• Communicate priorities and dependencies across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments.

• Build relationships with Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.

Experience you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

• Strong experience of development, of which project-level design experience.

• Fluent in SQL Server and tools such as SSIS, T-SQL, SSRS C#, and adaptable to other languages.

• Fluent in C#

• A demonstrable working understanding of ASP.net and/or Angular and client-side JavaScript frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of Software Development Fundamentals and Processes, Design, Documentation, Testing, and tools;

• Effective in a distributed team environment;

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments;

• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem-solving;

• Communicate priorities and dependencies across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments;

• Build relationships with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.

• Desired Additional Qualifications:

  • BizTalk

  • Jira