Development Lead

Job Description

Your days will be varied and could include any or all of the following: Leading and mentoring team members Reviewing code and ensuring the highest possible standard for quality Working with the other team leads and the Product Lead to define and deliver product architecture Ensuring epics are progressing on schedule and reporting appropriately Working with wider infrastructure and devops teams to enable and maintain efficient delivery of our software across environments. Engaging with business leads, business analysts, actuaries and QA experts to understand requirements, and ensure the software delivery exceeds expectations Actively driving product and team improvements Being a quality evangelist ensuring that the product is of the highest possible quality, and that all work is exceptional Working with the Product Owner, Programme Management Office and Development Management in sprint and release planning Ensuring all team members excel in their roles and adhere to the highest possible standards Write and architect secure, efficient, testable, maintainable and functionally correct code The role is expected to be approximately 50% hands-on development work, and 50% leadership and management. How this opportunity is different This role is a fantastic opportunity to work on a brand-new product, in a role that offers significant responsibility and influence in how both the product is built, the team that delivers it, and the processes the team use to do so. You'll be working with exceptional leaders, and have the responsibility to really take ownership of large parts of the product's delivery. Skills and experience that will lead to success Team leadership Technical leadership Exceptional analytical skills Very strong communication skills Strong web application design experience Strong track record in Testing, Continuous Integration & Delivery Experience of working in and preferably managing, large product development teams, in an Agile development environment Good familiarity with application architectures and design patterns Development and release best practices. Experience with modern web UI technologies and applications HTML 5, CSS 3, SASS Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (T-SQL, stored procedures) ASP.NET Web API Security Testing Unit, Integration, End to End (Cypress), Performance Jest, nUnit / xUnit, TDD / BDD, etc. Git with GitFlow, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Secure coding practices DevOps (Octopus Deploy, Azure Pipelines) Azure Cloud development