Team Lead .NET Development Team

**Introduction**
- You will be responsible for designing and developing ETL, data integration, data warehouse, performance tuning and BI reporting to deliver dashboard/reporting solutions to the business.**Disclaimer**
- As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page.**Role Purpose**
- You will be responsible for designing and developing ETL, data integration, data warehouse, performance tuning and BI reporting to deliver dashboard/reporting solutions to the business.**Requirements**:

- Appropriate 3/4-year IT qualification
- Exposure to the full development life cycle (Agile and Waterfall where required, proper experience in DevOps)
- At least 12+ years’ experience in.Net and related solution design
- Management/supervisory experience
- Relevant industry experience in insurance
- Proficiency in software tools related to.Net Development
- Management: Ability to lead a team of competent.Net developers to achieve Guardrisk outcomes and grow themselves.
- Familiar with accounting concepts such as general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, and financial reporting
- Experience in developing software solutions for the insurance industry and familiar with insurance concepts such as policy administration, claims management, underwriting and standardized reporting
- Familiar with Agile development methodologies and able to implement Agile
- Knowledge of Data Transformation Services, File Transfer Protocol
- Intensive debugging and troubleshooting knowledge
- Prior experience designing/developing solutions in large or midsize companies
- Knolwedge and experience with MSSQL and relational databases
- Solid understanding of Azure and Cloud

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Work closely with the CIO to ensure a proper team well equipped for this practice is established and maintained in Guardrisk, including capacity planning
- Work closely with the Guardrisk Enterprise Architect in selecting the right tools and solutions, including architecture for the solution at hand
- Ensure a well thought through Technology strategy for.Net and related solutions for Guardrisk, working with all related parties
- Be an experienced, hands-on technical leader and work side by side with your team, constantly empowering them to become more effective
- Foster a culture of high-quality, respect for data and strong software development practices in the team
- Drive innovation and the technical vision of the team
- Inspire and motivate a high performing team to achieve great results, while supporting individual growth and development
- Communicate and collaborate with multiple areas across the company
- Set team objectives and monitor progress towards achieving them
- Stay abreast of innovation and technology advances, like the use of AI in your role
- Assist the Guardrisk Enterprise Architect on the Architectural Roadmap of the.Net solutions
- Assist in defining the architecture framework and actual architecture for all solutions, well integrated, with a core focus on.Net as a technology
- Focus on ensuring.Net is up-to-date in all aspects of Guardrisk
- Ensuring the future architecture of solutions have got a clear separation of concerns
- Define and maintain a high level of development/solutions standards
- Work closely with the Guardrisk Enterprise Architect in ensuring proper architecture and implementation of:

- Backup of environment
- DR of environment
- High Availability where required
- Scalability
- Performance
- Data integrity
- Reliability/Stability and Reliance
- Provide support by attending to severe operational issues
- Responsible for holistic system health
- Ensure proper monitoring for the production environment running all.Net and related solutions are in place
- Stay in touch with latest technology trends, ie AI and the use of AI to make the team more efficient
- Improve current designs/way of work
- Define technology to support/inform the IT Strategy from a.Net Solutions perspective
- Ensure that developers deliver within the IT Strategy guidelines
- Solid relationship with CIO and Guardrisk Enterprise Architect critical
- Ensure collaboration between business, development, and infrastructure teams (internal and external) to identify support models to meet target service levels and business objectives
- Ensure proper delivery and SLA’s with vendors where applicable
- Advise peers/business on technical issues and trends
- Provide support maintaining the IT Risk Register
- Provide support for third party IT Risk assessments
- Ensure proper controls are in place to mitigate chances of security incidents occurring
- Participate in the analysis, design, development, troubleshooting and support of all systems build on.Net technology
- Perform code reviews of the team and identify errors and provide feedback to relevant parties
- Integrate with diverse source systems (including but not limited to: In-House, Vendor-based, On-prem and Cloud-based solutions, and Office 365)
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