Senior Technical Lead

Job description / Role

Role

Responsible for leading the projects technically from the early phases of planning till the delivery of the production system

Responsibilities

Design:
- Responsible for software applications design according to design best practices and customer needs.
- Ensure all the technical team has full understanding of the project design.
- Responsible for implementing the business requirements adhering to the design document of the project.

Reporting
- Report accurate and clear status about technical team progress, challenges, risks and recommendation.
Coaching & Technical guidance:
- Responsible for providing full coaching, technical guidance, and support for all the technical team members during the project.
- Decide the technologies and tools that best fit implementing the customer requirements.
- Manage multiple projects and handle different tasks simultaneously.

Quality:
- Assessing the quality of all project technical deliverables.
- Steering the team into focusing on creating a highly maintainable applications.
- Communicates and enforces coding standards.
- Ensure all implemented features are unit tested.
- Performs code reviews and recommends necessary rework.
- Responsible for the code being developed by the developers with other leads.
- Promptly escalate issues, which affect project quality.
- Ensure code is documented where applicable or required.

Technical Estimate:
- Responsible for all technical estimates from the project's early phases till end of the project.
- Contribute to estimating the high-level-requirements during RFPs

Team work & Communication:
- Ensure team-work spirit.
- Ensure all team members are assigned to the tasks that fit their technical capabilities.
- Communicate technical feedback and technical development areas to team members.

Requirements

Technical skills:

Very good knowledge of:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Design patterns (Basic GoF)
- Microservices architecture
- SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
- SOLID principals
- Threading
- Collections
- Unit testing
- Relational Database Basic concepts
- No SQL Database
- Redis
- Big Data (Kafka)
- Caching and performance tuning
- Search engines like elastic search
- GraphQL
- Mongo DB
- Spring boot
- AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming
- Spring security
- Spring integration
- Spring cloud
- Spring 5
- Spring data
- Maven
- Gradle
- Git and branching strategies
- Application servers
- Kubernates
- Docker containers
- Splunk trouble shooting
- Linux and shell scripting
- Jenkins as a concept
- Streaming
- Reactive programming
- Generics
- REST APIs
- SOAP Webservice
- Clean code
- Cryptography
- AWS Developing
- Functional programming
- Integration testing and BDD
- Test driven

Systems Support:
- Effectively supporting production systems, taking care of implementing the required KPI and adhering to the agreed service level agreements.

Innovation
- Suggest, plan and implement new ideas and software improvements.
- Encourage team to innovate and comes with new ideas.
- Assess team ideas and provide constructive feedback and guidelines.

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.