Development Team Lead

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This Microsoft Cloud Specialist has an excellent opportunity has arisen to join their Development team as a hands-on Development Team Leader, leading a team of highly skilled developers and delivering complex projects across a variety of products and technologies.

Working closely with other team leaders you will ensure the structured and coordinated planning of your team's development. Your technical background and experience will ensure you can offer the support and guidance required being able to support and assist developers at code level.

To apply for this role, in addition to having a proven management background you must also have proven technical capability and a track record in software development combined with experience in the leadership of software development teams and delivery of projects within a software development environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Managing the delivery of multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to deployment

- Capable of understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to deployment

- Working closely with the Software Delivery Manager and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery

- Provide regular and effective progress updates to and work closely with the Software Delivery Manager to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues

- Define delivery phases of the project including activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting

- Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

- Undertake small analysis projects in the form of consultancy

- Take responsibility for making key decisions to ensure the successful implementation of all initiatives

Experience

- Experience of people management and the ability to lead and influence others

- Proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of system/software development projects in a structured environment

- Experience in a variety of software development approaches and methodologies including Agile and Waterfall

- Experience in both architecture and implementation-level software design

- Experience in requirements capture, analysis techniques and process improvement approaches

- Experience in the development of software using c#, .Net, jQuery and SQL Server technologies

- Excellent personal organisation and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks

- Comfortable working without routine supervision

- A desire to remain technically capable and an expert in current technologies