Team Leader

Job Description

As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled software developers and quality assurance engineers to successfully deliver software projects/products on-time with the desired qualityResponsibilities and Key Activities :
• Lead the team to successfully deliver project releases on time with desired quality
• Manage the delivery of project/product from design through to release
• Provide accurate project estimations, identify resources/competences, develop project plan, and deliver to the schedule. Ensure that risks and issues are identified and managed closely
• Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination. Ensure awareness, involvement, and support from the key stakeholders - maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle
• Build the team and develop capabilities of the team members by adapting Software product development best practices.
• Break down high-level objectives into specific software development tasks and follow through on their execution
• Design overall system architecture, database schema and user interface. Contribute to technical solutions from design through to code level
• Help with gathering requirements, creating functional specifications, and creating and reviewing user stories and technical specifications
• Conduct peer code reviews and perform unit and integration testing
• Analyze, debug, and solve complex technical issues and customer escalations
• Stay current on software technology, concepts, and tools and competing products
• Aid in recruitment, assimilating necessary technical knowledge and building team to meet organizational goals
• Conduct performance reviews, provide timely and frequent feedback, and set objectives for team members
Qualifications and Professional knowledge :
• Engineering degree in Computer Science with 10+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of software development projects
Technical Skills (Must Have) -
• Hands on experience in Java based web / cloud development (full-stack web development with J2EE and AWS)
• Hands-on experience in developing user interfaces with HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries
• Hands-on experience in Web/Cloud application development using AWS, J2EE, Java Spring Boot and Web Services
• Must be familiar with Web Application Architecture, design patterns like MVC and capable of making design decisions considering performance and scalability of the application
Technical skills (Additional) -
• Experience or knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, Marionette BackboneJS, etc.
• Experience or knowledge in Scala, Docker, Terraform, Cloud Security, cryptography, and Search engines (Lucene, Elasticsearch)
• Experience or knowledge in databases like SQL Server or Oracle. Strong knowledge of database design and efficient SQL statements
Leadership skills -
• Team leading ability, shown by having led a team to work co-operatively with others, continually reviewing objectives and priorities, and accepting collective responsibility. Experience should include direct personnel management
• Result oriented with strong self-management skills
• Strategic thinking, demonstrated by an ability to maintain a broad overview of both technical and business challenges to achieve long term goals whilst realizing short term objectives
• Experience in people management, possessing influencing skills, ability to gain agreement or acceptance through influence, persuasion, or negotiation
Desired characteristics :
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• Flexible, willing to go the extra mile while at the same time being an agile and fast learner
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment
• Able to stay calm and friendly and able to demonstrate good composure when handling complicated problems
• Very good sense of ownership
• Good analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new methodologies and techniques
• Effective and Clear Communicator, asking right questions, actively listen and ability to collect right inputs
Reporting and Ownership :
• Reports to Engineering Manager
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