Software Technical Leader

The Software Technical Leader will be responsible for leading a software team, focused on delivering software application for eAPM in AMC business.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a team of software engineers, focused on application software development, from requirements to production release, through to post release support.
• Project Management - Ensure preparation and maintenance of detailed delivery plans for new product introductions, primarily using Agile.
• Work with other GA Software leaders to share and implement best practice software development, both regionally and cross product line.
• Technical vision on implementing a state-of-the-art software solution.
• Contribute to the software roadmap, to achieve convergence of a complex product portfolio, to a cost optimized platform solution
• Lead the design, code, test, and debug of software.
• Team lead shall enforce the below best practices
  • Enforce process best practices by working on the deviations from team members detected in Jira.
  • Pull request quality improvement. Number of PR fixes suggested by pair shall be reduced to a minimum.
  • Unit test coverage (60% minimum)
  • SonarCube Code smell
  • Collect local team requests and feedback and share it with the right team lead.
  • Monitor ticket progress when reaching end of sprint.
  • Support newcomers’ ramp-up.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Computer Science discipline or equivalent.
• Preferably 8+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years of experience leading a team without direct reports.
• Proven experience managing software development projects from concept through to product release, using Agile
• Strong task and delivery focus, with a collaborative style to get the most from a technical team
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems; both at a technical level and at a people level.
• Strong influencing skills, rather than a dependency on command and control
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
• Hands on experience in web application development using micro-service architecture
• Hands on in back-end software development in Web based applications using:
  • Micro-services, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Docker, Java, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Web Sockets, Mqtt, OAuth 2.0

Desired Characteristics

• An understanding of relational and non-relational databases like Timescale
• Awareness of agile development processes (ideally Scrum)
• Evidence of continuous professional development, such as involvement in open-source projects
• Experience in Kubernetes, software cyber security
• Strong communications skills, with a proven ability to work successfully with new and experienced team.
• Ability to demonstrate delivery to time, quality, and budget within an Agile programming environment.