Tech-Lead

The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfill and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed.

We expect tech leads to taking a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings. Given this, we expect you to:

• Respect the other members of your team and recognize you don’t always know best.
• Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team.
• Be hands on, able and willing to contribute to development; however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time.
• Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility.

• Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture
• Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline
• Understand how you get changes into production
• Understand how all parts of the system work together
• Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients.
• Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team
• Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place
• Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams
• Ensure there is a technical vision for the team
• Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production
• Encourage the team to follow good development practices
• Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad)
• Recognize team members that have the potential to grow into team leads
• Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team.
• Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date
• Keep an eye on the long term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary
• Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required
• Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project
• Build relationships across your client community

Technologies / Experience

• The successful candidate must have the following experience:
• Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organisation
• Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles
• Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language
• Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages
• Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g.

Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo.
• Full stack development experience from user interface through to data persistence
• A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD
• Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy
• Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery
• Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security

The following exposure will also be looked on favorably:

• Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement
• Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc.
• Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform

Write us at techlead@careerxperts.com to get connected!