Technical Lead

Modernisation road-map for products and development
- Leadership and hands on coding
- Hybrid work model

Halcyon Knights IT recruitment have partnered with an Australian and family owned technology powerhouse that are entering a growth phase. They have built bespoke software products which are used in venues all across Australia. They are a larger sized organisation with multiple large development teams, that focus on quality code, quality testing and following agile / modern development techniques and practices. Our client is looking for a permanent Technical Lead to work cloesly with the Development manager, to recruit and build the Development team; and for establishing the agile product delivery methodologies that will be used as part of product development.

**Responsibilities**:

- Reporting to Chief Technology Officer/Development Manager, a hands-on coder, able to lead and a small team of developers and ensure software development delivery commitments are fully met.
- Working closely with the Product Manager/Owner, take ownership of the technical assets (source code, CI/CD pipelines, technical documentation) for a product/service domain within the overall product suite/platform and drive product technology enhancements and improvements
- Recruit, on-board and retain high performing Software Engineers/Developers
- Perform code reviews and employ effective use of code quality and security analysis and performance diagnostic tools across the team to ensure quality and security within delivered products.
- Ensure that all development starts with a good design and that the solution is well documented
- Re-design/Re-factor existing source code (where applicable) to continuously improve efficiency, readability, performance, and simplicity of code.
- Ensure developers write clear, succinct, documented, maintainable, secure, testable and working code
- Ensure the development team adheres to regulatory controls, security and compliance to organization policies and standards.
- Adopt agile continuous delivery practices and automation tools to enable small and frequent quality releases where possible.
- Participate in regular development chapter meetings with developers/engineers from other product teams to share ideas, experiences for continuous improvement (eg. people, process and tools)
- Mentor and coach, the developers by putting in place learning pathways for each developer to facilitate their progression
- 2+ years of demonstrated capability in leading a Development team with strong interpersonal and team leadership skills
- 8+ years of solid full-stack software development experience including technical solution design
- Thorough understanding of OOD/OOP and SOLID software development principles
- Extensive technical skills and hands-on experience in: c#,.Net Core, Javascript, (Angular or React), Web API. REST API, SQL, Event-driven, loosely coupled architectures, Agile product development, Git and CI/CD, Cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS), domain driven design, automated testing exposure.

**Why should you apply?**
- Family run and oriented company that understand flexibilty and work-life balance is important
- Work hybrid from home and from a conveniently located and new office space
- Work for a brand that has a strong and positive reputation
- Role is both hands on and leadership focussed
- High performing and established team with good existing culture
- Huge list of beneifts on offer
- Work across multiple product teams
- greenfield projects - state of the art technology across full stack, cloud, deployment, testing, agile (Scrum)
- Monolith to new migration projects
- New state environment - set the standard and set the direction for all new projects within the business
- Work alongside good operators across the business
- Porduce products within a regulated industry
- Creative opportunity to have your say and be heard, decide what tech to use and what needs to be done and why
- Very succesful company that is large in size and continuously growing
- c# /.Net / Microsoft environment / cloud / modern design and development practices

Opportunitities like this are very rare in the market, have the opportunity to join this organisation as a Development Lead, and have the ability to make a real influence on the future of this organisation, whilst leading a high perfoming team. Please click "Apply" to register your interest, our Senior Consultant will be in touch confidentially.

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