Software Team Leader

Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, the Software Team Leader will be responsible for providing technical leadership for software development work and line management for a small team of software engineers as well as their own technical tasks. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and leadership skills, strong software development skills and a passion for the on-time delivery of high quality software solutions that meet all customer needs.

Purpose Of Job

• To provide technical leadership on software development work covering both customer projects and internally driven product development.
• To serve as a line manager for a small team of software engineers.
• To design and develop software and supporting documentation according to the requirements of both internal and external customers, using a team of software engineers to achieve this task where appropriate.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader for software development activities, including:
• Support the planning of software development activities including work breakdown, estimation, proposal of technical approaches and solutions
• Assignment of tasks to team members
• Monitoring of tasks and reporting of progress, issues and risks to internal stakeholders including project and product managers
• Ensuring that the work of the team is technically correct and meets the defined requirements
• Serve as a line manager to a team of software engineers, including management of the performance and development of team members, inducting new team members through the probationary period and handling minor disciplinary matters
• Serve as a line manager to a team of software engineers, including management of the performance and development of team members, inducting new team members through the probationary period and handling minor disciplinary matters
• Serve as an exemplar on best practice for software design and implementation methods.
• Maintain an awareness of current and emerging techniques and technologies related to software development, flagging any that may be of benefit.
• Provide advice and guidance on the development of the software architecture for company products and the adoption of new technologies.
• Provide guidance on potential technical solutions and associated estimations of effort in support of bids and proposals.
• Undertake implementation of new product features to an agreed functional specification.
• Promptly analyse and resolve defects reported internally and by customers.
• Produce high quality code to time and to budget with minimal supervision and in accordance with applicable departmental procedures and standards.
• Perform effective reviews of functional requirements, software designs and code changes produced by others.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives relating to the development process, development environment and tools used.
• Support recruitment of new engineering staff including review of CVs and participation in technical interviews.
  
  

Technical Requirements

• Experience of complex application development using C++, C# and/or equivalent high-level object-oriented languages. (essential)
• Exposure to development technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SQL. (optional)
• Experience of best practice software design techniques including object-oriented methods using UML or equivalent.
• Experience of use of scripting languages such as Python.
• Extensive knowledge of the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using OOD methodology.
• Exhibit an understanding and willingness to utilize formal structured software engineering processes.
• Competent in the use of one or more Integrated Development Environments.
• Knowledge and use of version control and version control software.
• Knowledge and use of the Windows family of operating systems.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior staff members.