Technical Lead

**We Want You**:
**You Bring**
- Minimum of 7 years experience within a development environment;
- 3- 6 years’ SQL experience;
- 5 -8 years’ C# experience;
- 5 -8 years’.NET core experience;
- 5 -8 years’ RESTful API experience.

**Nice To Have**:

- 1- 4 years’ experience in document stores such as Couchbase / Mongo;
- 1- 4 years’ experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka / Red Panda.

**What You’ll Do**:
Technical Leadership:

- Provide technical leadership to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Engage regularly with software architects in order to ensure the development within the team is according to architectural guidelines.
- Ensure checked-in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met and the code base is sound.
- Ensure that all technical solutions that are rolled out consider compatibility with other environments and dependencies; have a high usability factor; are reliable to reduce downtime and perform at maximum efficiency during peak periods of usage; consider security at its highest level (third-party attacks; data protection etc).
- Drive the adoption of processes within the team which consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilization during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.

Quality of Software Implementation:

- Ensure rigorous testing of any solution before deployment and create standards and processes within the team to align with these.
- Ensure the delivery of a complete and technically appropriate solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives and has been tested thoroughly.
- Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce the development support load.
- Where possible work to develop and implement a quality mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
- Develop the solution that supports modification for future developers, thereby reducing the number of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

Initiative and Innovation:

- Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company's bottom line.
- Technical problems and opportunities are anticipated and dealt with immediately considering any technical dependencies.
- Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
- Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
- Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within the team and to the wider group.
- Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve the performance of products and systems.
- Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share:

- Identify team members requiring a piece of specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
- Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in the transfer of the knowledge.

**Living the Spirit**:

- Actively drives a culture of collaboration and open communication within the team.
- Actively promotes authenticity and drives the spirit of diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging within the team.
- Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within the business as a whole.
- Actively become a change agent and drive continuous learning within the team thus ensuring that the team approaches all tasks or challenges with enthusiasm and proactivity.

**The Company We Keep**:
At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.