Senior Software Developer/ Technical Lead

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PROFILE
• Minimum Degree in IT or equivalent
• 2-4 years of experience in software development
• Analytical skills
• Process and service driven
• Fluent in English and French
• Good organizational and communication skills
•Knowledge of the following will be an advantage
• PL: C#, Java, SQL
• APIs/Frameworks/Libraries: MVC3
• Databases: MS SQL Server 2008
• Web Technologies: C#, JavaScript, XML
• Tools/IDE: Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008

MAIN ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

A technical lead should demonstrate  capability in 2 main areas:

1. Team Support
2. Technical Excellence

• Define and document best detailed technical approach for project architecture, based on the SA’s design and  technology choices.
• Make sure that the developers have the right level of understanding (both functional and non-functional) to be able to start coding.
• Provides support to the team to remove impediments to make sure that the project is not blocked.
• Must remain hands on with code and does some level of coding, where deep technical expertise is needed.
• Performs constant code reviews, and ensures that all standards are being followed.
• Know the status of each of the developer’s work and detect risk very early.  Zero surprises.
• Accountable for the performance and security of the websites.
• Expertise, guidance and consultancy to both internal  teams and external partners.
• Involvement in the on-going improvement of processes and methodologies.
• Review and manage all changes to the technical requirements through a formally defined scope change process.
• Involvement on web projects:

1. Feasibility analysis
2. Workload estimates
3. Technical briefs/requirements
4. Validation of development work
5. Quality with on time delivery of agreed deliverables.

• Talk to third parties, to make sure that the ecosystem is properly setup.
• Serves as a communication point between the developers and the project managers