ELCA is one of the biggest independent Swiss IT company. We are currently hiring in Mauritius as our vision is to build up a center with over 200 talents. Be part of a team that makes a difference to people’s lives by creating leading-edge software.

In this role

As development team leader, you’ll be coaching and guiding a team of engineers and participate yourself actively in the development process. You’ll be working at the interface between development team, management and our HQ in Switzerland.

Your responsibilities include:

• You’ll be responsible for the delivery of customer projects.
• You’ll be responsible for meeting deadlines and quality within given budget.
• You’ll apply project methods for a modern and effective project management (agile and classic project methodologies).
• You’ll take over the technical leadership of experienced architects and software engineers within projects.
• You’ll actively collaborate within the projects (requirements engineering, architecture and development).

What we offer

• A stimulating and professional working environment in a dynamic team with extensive expertise
• Exciting projects using the latest technologies
• Flat organisational hierarchies and cross-functional teamwork
• Close contact with our teams in Switzerland
• A supportive culture with excellent opportunities for professional and personal training and development

About your profile

For this vacancy we are looking for a candidate with academic degree of a technical university or university of applied sciences. Multiple years’ experience of working in software development and in a Java environment. You need to have very good French and English language skills. In addition, your strengths include teamwork, flexibility, highly-developed customer orientation and technical expertise.

• Good knowledge of software development (Java/JEE and GWT), analysis and design.
• Java frameworks for dependency injection, O/R mapping and access control (Spring, Hibernate).
• Practical database skills (Oracle and/or MS SQL Server).
• Experience with modern agile software development (Continuous Integration, Automation Testing).
• Good experience in requirements engineering, change management, project management and controlling.

Your strengths

• Coaching and leadership of project staff.
• Deep technical understanding and Java knowledge.
• Very good communication and presentation skills.