Lead Full Stack Developer

Job description

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The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfil, and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and can cover them themselves if needed.We expect tech leads to take a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings. Given this, we expect you to:

• Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team
• Be hands-on, able and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time
• Encourage the team to be pro-active, give them responsibilities 
• Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture
• Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline
• Understand how you get changes into production
• Understand how all parts of the system work together
• Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients
• Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team
• Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place
• Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams
• Ensure there is a technical vision for the team
• Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production
• Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned to EE technical values
• Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad)
• Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team
• Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date
• Keep an eye on the long-term consequences of architectural choices and remind others when necessary
• Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required
• Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project

Build relationships across your client communityTechnologies / Experience 

Here is what we would like you to bring: 

• Worked as the tech lead of a development / delivery team in a large organisation
• Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles
• Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Scala, C#)
• Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages
• Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo
• Full stack development experience from user interface through to data persistence
• Strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD
• Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy
• Worked as part of agile delivery teams and seen several different approaches to delivery
• Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system securityThe following exposure will also be looked on favourably:
• Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement
• Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc.
• Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform 

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