job description - Team Lead - Affiliates
- The Team Lead will be required to effectively lead and execute the Development portfolio and related activities within the relevant IGX: Affiliate Team. This is a key role for the business that requires an entrepreneurial individual who can direct software development activities in all aspects of the SDLC (QA + DEV). The successful candidate will gain much satisfaction from solving a wide variety of challenging problems while playing a pivotal role within a small and focused team. The successful candidate will report to the Product Delivery Manager.
Duties include, but not limited to:
Operating Duties
- Management of a team including recruitment, appraisals, allocation of duties and other related management functions.
- Support team building and team development by utilizing the abilities and skills of individuals and fostering a feedback culture.
- Address team needs efficiently and effectively and expedite communication strategies to ensure impediments are resolved quickly.
- Coordinate the on boarding process for new starters.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads and DevOps to ensure all aspects of software product requirements are covered.
- Allocation of developers in accordance with the backlog prioritization.
- Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance.
- 1-to-1s with everyone in the team on a monthly basis.
- Grow team competency on a business and technical level, individually and as a collective.
- Interviewing of candidates, both internal and external for QA and Dev.
- Creating a career growth plan for each member of the team using the skills assessment process.
- Conduct performance reviews for all team members.
- Roll out new processes and tools that will improve work processes within team.
- Maintain healthy group dynamics and creating a positive, delivery focused team culture
- Be the face of the team, accepting accountability for the team’s delivery.
- Ensure that the team delivers high quality products within agreed upon time frames.
- Prepare QA testing strategy relating to planning, design, implementation, execution and exit reporting.
- Ensure developer and tester collaboration in order to deliver the best product possible.
Support to Product Delivery Manager
- Assisting the Product Delivery Manager to ensure the knowledge sharing and flow of information is actively happening throughout the team.
- Understand the vision with the Product Delivery Manager and continually drive the vision within the team by creating goals and ensuring that they are met.
- Remove impediments where possible and to raise the ones you can’t to the Product Delivery Manager and ensure they are dealt with.
- Report on all aspects of team dynamics; growth, project progress, recruitment needs and other team needs.
- Ensure that relationships with other teams are smooth and that in all aspects processes and expectations are well defined.
Support to Technical Lead
- Ensuring that the Architectural vision is implemented when building or maintaining systems and including such items within the product scope.
- Assist in driving system and development methodologies as recommended by the Tech Lead & Architecture Team.
- Ensure that deployed solutions operate according to architectural specifications and DevOps requirements.
- Facilitate time allocation for developer up-skilling via Tech Lead, Architecture or consulted teams.
- Support to Product Owner
- Assist in the adoption and nurturing of Scrum methodology in the team; creating an iterative and “Agile” culture.
- Ensure that the team are working accordingly to the backlog priority.
- Assisting to ensure all projects are tracked and delivered upon customer expectations and within required timelines.
- Assist the product owner in ensuring all individuals are properly briefed on project requirements.
- Keep the product owner informed of task accomplishment, issues and status.
- Ensuring the team commit only to what they can achieve within a sprint based on the teams known velocity.
Essential Criteria:
- At least 6 months experience within DigiTech
- Knowledge and experience of working with Agile Scrum delivery methods
- Relevant leadership/management qualification
- Pervious leadership experience
- Demonstrates behaviour aligned with Combiinedf values and DOS culture.
- Desirable Criteria:
- Computer Science related degree, diploma or similar qualification.
- Technical leadership experience
Person Specifications:
- Accountability And Execution
- Adaptability / Flexibility
- Commitment and Effort
- Control And Efficiency
- Customer Focus
- Initiating Action
- Resilience
- Stress Tolerance
- Technical Knowledge
- Planning & Organising
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