Back to search
Technical Team Lead
Perm
Manchester
Up to 75,000pa
The Team Lead will work with the other developers to develop improve and maintain the systems that provide management tools with the support of the Platform Services Engineering Manager and other colleagues. This role will encompass technology and line-management of staff. They will be responsible for the teams' technical direction and the quality of their code as well as managing incoming development requests maintenance schedules and technical debt. There is heavy use of AWS within the team with a desire to utilise managed services wherever possible. This includes the use of Lambda API Gateway SQS SNS and RDS managed through the Serverless Framework CloudFormation and Terraform
KeyResponsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineersfostering a collaborativeand high- performance work environment.
- Understanding requirementsandacceptance criteria
- Interpretingsoftwaredevelopmentspecifications anddesign documents
- Writingapplicationcodeandteststhatconformto standards
- Leadingsoftwaredevelopment projects
- Leadingthedesignprocessonrecommended architecture
- Ensuringthatthe Portal team's work is of high quality and adheresto our company standards.
- Schedulinginmaintenanceandotherinternal improvements.
- Identifyingrisksanddevelopingcontingency plans
- Workingalongsideengineeringtestinguserexperienceandother roles
- Adhering tocompany policiesand procedures withrespecttosecurity quality and healthand safety
AboutYou
Here'swhatwe'relooking for:
- Strongknowledgeofprogramminglanguagesandunderlyingdevelopmentconceptsto enable them to contribute to work across teams
- Strongcommunication listeningandinterpersonalskills withtheabilitytoconvey complex information tonon-technical stakeholders.
- Highlevelofself-organisation
- Abilitytodefinetechnicalspecificationsbasedoncustomer requirements
- Abilitytoclearlyexplaincomplextechnical issues
- Systemarchitectureand design
- Strongunderstandingofinformation securityISO27001andother processes and policies
- Knowledgeofcoding standards
- ExperiencewithAWS&Serverlesstechnologies(LambdaSQSetc)
- StrongPHPknowledgeutilisingtheLaravel framework
- StrongJavaScriptorTypescriptknowledgeutilisingtheAngularorVue.js frameworks
- HTMLandCSS
Preferred:
- Experience inleadingateamandhelpingcolleaguesto grow
- Managementofdiverse staff
- Experiencedevelopingprivacycentric applications
- Experience with optimising SQL queries when working with complexand large data sets
Experience inleading technical projects and steering a team's technical direction
