Tech Lead – SDLC Tools (C++ or Java)

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A Tech lead is expected provide the technical delivery leadership for a small to medium size team of engineers and associate tech leads while playing a senior coding role. They are expected to review work of the team members and coordinate the technical delivery of the team to the highest level of standards and quality. They are expected to manage the design of the area of work with the help of the architects for more complex matters. Tech leads are expected play a line manager function mostly to the team that he/she is giving technical leadership to. Tech leads are expected to communicate closely with the internal and external stakeholders on the areas of responsibility. They should be prepared to play various SDLC roles including the scrum master role and the architecture owner of software components/teams.

• Ability to understand existing code base and perform BAU changes
• Ability to perform accurate estimates on implementational changes on the responsible areas
• Should be responsible for providing the technical leadership to a team for a medium to large scale functional or technical delivery
• Should be able to handle individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Guide the team to analyse the requirements, embed the changes into the current design, coding, testing, build and deploy.
• Assure the quality of software being developed both by self and the team with adequate level of unit, component and end-to-end testing where applicable. A very good knowledge in working with static and dynamic code analysis tools and follow the recommendations is expected. Mentoring and training juniors on quality aspects is expected.
• Guide the team to follow the SDLC practices and standards according to the company policies and guidelines
• Ability to play various roles in the SDLC such as Scrum master, Architecture owner for the related subsystems or components
• Ability to communicate clearly both on functional and non-functional aspects on the area that he is responsible for with both internal and external stakeholders. In addition, should be reasonably conversant with the total technical delivery of the project/s that he/she is playing the role of a Tech lead
• Work closely with these teams to discover problems and opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to configure and automate and maintain continues integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines to support software integration and deployment
• Play the line management function as per the guidelines provided. Be responsible for improving the skills and mentoring the team for career development

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or similar technical field
• At least six years' experience with 1+ years in a similar capacity on C++ or Java technologies
• Thorough understanding of TestNG or GoogleTest frameworks with demonstrated experience in testing based on TDD and BDD development models.
• Thorough understanding of the full SDLC and related tools (SAST, SCA and SCM)
• Interest and skills in automation tools/languages Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible and Python
• Hands-on experience in cloud technology, different open source technologies and integration of them
• An analytical mind and the ability to learn both the business and technical aspects of financial markets
• Ability to maintain good working relationship with clients and team members
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

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