Technical Team Lead

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence

Overview

As a Technical team Lead at TNS, you will provide Leadership to the Development Team in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including but not limited to:

- Ensuring that quality and performance standards are adhered to, including the preparation and maintenance of system documentation.
- Ensure technical solutions are delivered on time and on budget
- Working with Product Owners, Business Analysts and other stakeholders to ensure delivered solutions meet customer expectations
- Functioning collaboratively as part of a professional technology team, actively looking for opportunities to improve the quality and timely delivery of solutions.
- Taking responsibility for solutions, integrating those solutions into the build and deploy process, and efficiently resolving any urgent issues.

A Technical Lead at TNS is expected to pursue self-improvement actively and continuously, while driving the Delivery Team to do the same.

**Responsibilities**:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the continuous improvement of Software Development skills within the Delivery Team, through mentoring and collaboration, and ensuring adherence to standards and processes
- Continuously improve the quality within the code base, working collaboratively with both Developers and QAs to enable an efficient, high quality test capability.
- Championing best practice.
- Ensure Agile methodology is followed and act as team scrum master
- Collaborate with others to influence the Design of Software, and ensure the team delivers within the design direction and architectural boundaries given.
- Assist with analysis, problem-solving, development and delivery of maintainable and efficient software solutions.
- Develop software which meets or exceeds quality and performance standards.
- Communicate status, issues, and risks with leaders in a timely manner.
- Work with professionalism, clarity, and consistency when interacting with key stakeholders, team members, and the wider community.

**Qualifications**:
Experience/Qualifications:

- At least 10 years of experience developing software (Java based)
- Experience mentoring technical people and leading teams towards quality technical implementations.
- Expert knowledge of software methodologies, and design patterns.
- Can work independently and/or in a team.
- Demonstrated experience creating accurate work item estimates.
- Ability to independently manage time, working towards and meeting agreed deadlines.
- Brilliant communication skills.

Optional Desired Qualifications:

- Experience working within a Scrum team and an understanding of the various Scrum roles.
- Experience with Atlassian suite of products such as Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo and Confluence.
- Data communications security and privacy techniques (i.e., PCI, EMV).
- Experience writing User Stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with Git version control.

Education/Certifications:

- Computer science degree or equivalent work experience within a professional software environment.

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.