Development Team Lead

Job Description

Join us as a Development Team Lead at a diverse, dynamic, award-winning business.A development team lead with organisational skills is required to manage off-shore developers as part of a wider development team, working alongside UK based business analysts, developers and QA test analysts.The successful candidate would be responsible for managing and scheduling resource within the pool of developers to deliver on a range of projects and applications for a diverse group of companies. You will lead the off-shore development team on specificprojects for the business.Location: a hybrid role - commutable to one of our offices (Tunbridge Wells or Whitstable in Kent)Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per year depending on experienceHours: Full Time, Permanent. Office hours covering a 35-hour week.Key responsibilities

• Manage off-shore development team to achieve high standards through building industry leading, robust and innovative software solutions that are fit for purpose.
• Effectively act as a product owner for designated projects, representing the interests of the business both tactically and strategically.
• Arrange and chair sprint planning and other development meetings such as daily stand-ups, retrospectives etc.
• Liaise with colleagues in IT, other departments and 3rd parties as required to resolve blockers and progress deliveries as necessary.
• Co-ordinating testing activities as part of the core delivery and ensuring testing has the appropriate input into planning meetings.
• Planning and co-ordinating release activities liaising with business to agree UAT and Live sign off dates for the project.
• Responsibility for producing succinct and appropriate reporting.
• Be responsible for day to day resource management as well as required admin including timesheets reconciliation.

Essential Skills

• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Skilled with tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS office suite, Visio or similar
• Experience of working with DevOps teams using agile frameworks.
• Able to converse with both technical and non-technical team members
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Solid understanding of development processes, Software Development Lifecycle and User Story creation.
• Any knowledge of Financial and Insurance Services

Personal qualities

• Suitable candidates should have experience and demonstrable success in a team lead or supervisory role preferably in a software development or other IT team.
• Having a technical, analytical or process background with a good understanding of software development principles and methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills are a necessity, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Applicants should have good time management skills and able to manage workloads appropriately.
• Good analytical and decision making skills are essential to provide good business value and ensure that our products are of high technical standard.

Employee benefits

• Private Medical cover for employee
• 5% Employer pension contributions when contributing 5%
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Company Sick Pay
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary