Software Development Team Leader

The Software Development Team Leader role is responsible for ensuring the team is consistently delivering working software. Also, will contribute to the technical solution from design through to code level and provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
- Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
- Line management and personal development of a team of highly skilled developers.
- Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team. Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
- To ensure all team members turn up promptly to team meetings including stand up, retrospective and planning.
- Understand and contribute to the technical solution from design through to code level.
- Possess up-to-date knowledge of technological developments in the industry. Research and evaluate a variety of software products.
- Test, maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure strong functionality and optimization.
- Make good technical decisions that provide solutions to business challenges.
- Package and support deployment of releases.
- Work closely with Development Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery.
- Provide regular and effective progress updates to and work closely with Development Project Managers to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
- Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
- Manage the delivery of multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to release.
- Define delivery phases of the project including activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting.
- Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle.
- Contribute to the definition of departmental and systems strategies and progression of any allocated objectives.
- Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress.
- Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards.
- Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across operations as part of the seamless implementation of existing and new systems.
- Contribute to post implementation reviews helping to demonstrate success or otherwise of projects.
- Support project resource scheduling and department capacity planning. Ensure that holidays & sickness are managed, tracked and considered in planning.

**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- Strong knowledge of the following technologies: C#,.NET 4, REACT, nodeJS, MVC 4, Entity Framework, LINQ, nUnit / xUnit, Moq, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5, CSS (Bootstrap).
- Excellent knowledge of authentication and identity protocols: OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0.
- Experience in DevOps process (e.g., Scrum, Git Flow, CI/CD, deployment, etc.).
- Strong knowledge in Azure SQL Server development including relational database design, T-SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, and performance optimization.
- Understanding of cloud-based Microsoft development (Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions).
- Hands on experience in REST API implementation, Creating, maintaining and versioning API’s.
- Good understanding of software development methodologies, object-oriented programming, database design, and development.
- Advocate of design patterns such as MVC, Factory Pattern, dependency injection and unit testing.
- Excellent command of the English language.

Preferred:

- Knowledge of the following technologies: Power App Canvas, Power Automate, Sharepoint Development, PowerBI, Dataverse.Exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps.
- Experience working with Azure API Manager. Experience working with Azure Cosmos DB.
- Experience working with Azure Search (or ElasticSearch). Experience working with Azure Service Bus (or similar message queues broker).
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure Application Insights (or similar event logging technologies).
- Experience working with in-memory objects cache technologies (e.g. Redis, Memcached, etc.).

Qualifications and specialist skills
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Experience of people management and the ability to lead and i