Senior Tech Lead

Senior Tech Lead

Profile

A Senior Tech lead is expected provide the technical delivery leadership for a medium size team of engineers and tech leads while playing a senior coding/designing 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 a considerable large area of work with the help of the architects for more complex matters. Senior Tech leads are expected to perform shadow solution architect role for small to medium size solutions. Senior Tech leads are expected play a line manager function. Senior 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, the architect owner role or shadow solution architect role of software components and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Should be responsible for providing the senior technical leadership to a team for a medium to large scale functional or technical delivery
• Guide the team to analyse the requirements, embed the changes into the current design, coding, testing, build and deploy.
• Senior Tech leads are expected to own the designs of semi complicated components and subsystems with minimum guidance of the architects. They should be able to perform design activities for complex components with the guidance of the architects
• Ability to perform accurate estimates on implementational changes on the responsible areas
• 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, Architect owner, Shadow solution architect.
• 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 expert with the total technical delivery of the project/s that he/she is playing the role of a Senior Tech lead
• Senior Tech leads are expected to identify improvement points of components, subsystems, SDLC and suggest and work through implementations with the help of other stakeholders
• 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
• Handle individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or similar technical field
• At least eight years’ experience with 1+ years in a similar capacity on Java technologies
• Exposure to Python, Spark & Parquet will be an added advantage
• 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
• Interest and skills in automation and devops tools
• Being exposed to modern IT trends is an advantage
• Hands-on experience in cloud technology, different open source technologies and integration of them
• Thorough understanding of the full SDLC and related tools
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.