Software Development Team Lead

The Lume Game Engine Studio is looking for a Software Development Team Lead to lead the software development team, coordinate the entire product development process and ensure the timely delivery of products.

**Responsibilities**

**Facilitated Continuous Improvement**
Identifies and ensures that the necessary processes and procedures are in place to meet business objectives.
- Ensures that all team processes and procedures are clearly documented, according to Derivco documentation standards.
- Reviews processes and procedures on a quarterly basis to determine effectiveness, efficiency and appropriateness.
- Effectively communicates and implements processes and procedures in the team and with stakeholders.
- Integrates the team and department processes and procedures effectively with companywide processes and procedures.
- Effectively allocates appropriate resources to projects, in conjunction with the Product Manager, to ensure that project deadlines and requirements are met.
- Participates in the recruitment of new staff, when necessary.
- Ensures effective and prompt communication of company issues, policies and procedures.
- Facilitates effective communication within the team and with other teams.
- Facilitates team training and development through the implementation of training and development plans.
- Ensures that the team members are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects.
- Conducts performance reviews of team members, on a regular basis.
- Ensures that the team is aligned with the company strategy and working towards achieving the strategy.
- Monitors performance of team members on an ongoing basis.
- Provides feedback to the SDM, on a regular basis, regarding team performance and project progress.
- Oversees all aspects of the team by facilitating and resolving issues, through effective problem solving and communication skills.

**Building Strategic Working Relationships**
- Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, emphathizes, involves, discloses, supports).
- Facilitates agreement and uses sound rationale to explain value of actions.
- Places higher priority on team or organizational goals than own goals.
- Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances other's ideas, and contributes own ideas about issues at hand.
- Probes for and provides information to clarify situations.
- Proactively tries to build effective working relationships with other people and resolves conflict actively with peers.
- Develops and uses collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
- Communicates with third parties to ensure the successful delivery of game artifacts for monthly deliverables
- **Displays Company Values**
- Takes independent action by suggesting new ideas or potential solutions to problems.
- Demonstrates passion by taking immediate action when confronted by a problem or made aware of a situation.
- Accepts responsibility for outcomes, whether positive or negative, and is willing to admit mistakes and refocus efforts.
- Takes ownership for quality by dedicating the required time and energy to assignments and making sure no aspect of the work is neglected.
- Remains open to ideas, listens to others and objectively considers others' ideas and opinions even when they may conflict with their own.
- Supports others by treating them with dignity, respect and fairness.
- Operates with integrity, through honesty and keeping of commitments, to demonstrate care.
- **Contributing to Team Success**:

- Demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
- Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines.
- Shares important or relevant information with the team.
- Values and uses individual differences and talents.
- Listens and fully involves others in team decisions and actions.
- Facilitates team goal accomplishment.
- Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of team goals.
- **Aligning Performance for Success**
- Evaluates performance on a quarterly basis.
- Tracks performance against set goals through the Games Global performance management system
- Collaboratively establishes development plans with staff members as required.
- Creates a learning environment by helping to secure resources required to support development initiatives as identified in learning pathways and other sources.
- Collaboratively works with direct reports to identify the behavior's, knowledge and skills required to achieve goals.
- Collaboratively works with direct reports to set meaningful and specific performance goals on a quarterly basis.
- Focuses and guides others in accomplishing work objectives.
- **Quality Orientation**:

- Takes action to correct quality problems or ensures that others are aware of and correct quality problems.
- Ensures that software is of a high quality.
- Ensures that software development standards are