Software Development Team Leader

4 weeks ago


Coventry, United Kingdom ParentPay Group Full time

Software Development Team Leader

Department: Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Coventry, UK

Description

Hybrid role - based 3 days in our Coventry office and 2 days working from home.

We are looking for a Software Development Team Leader who will be responsible for one of our multi discipline Scrum Teams and their contribution to the delivery of our Payments products within the ParentPay Group. This includes one of our leading solutions - ParentPay .

Reporting to the Development Manager, the Team Lead is responsible for leading a team to build, enhance and maintain products and/or systems thus enabling the business's plans and long-term objectives to be met. The Development Team Leader will provide strong leadership and focus to a team of technical specialists and may also contribute to the technical analysis, design and build of solutions ensuring the product and/or systems are fit for purpose.

As a leader you will line manage members of the team, performing appraisals and setting individual objectives. You will lead by example and ensure that the output of your team is of high quality and the team consistently meet the definition of done. You will work with the Tech Lead within the team to ensure the relevant coding standards are followed and consistent design patterns used. You will ensure new development follows a well thought out technical design. You will have a strong understanding of agile development principles and will be required to fulfil the role of Scrum Master, coaching the team and helping them to follow the Scrum process.

This is a ‘hands on’ role and you will be expected to spend time working alongside the team where your experience and skills can contribute to their success. This will involve working on new features and enhancements, re-architecting, fixing defects and porting legacy code to new technologies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage a Scrum team developing our Payments software products using agile methodologies.
  • Growing the team skills and capabilities.
  • Ensure high quality output from the developers and QA's.
  • Help team achieve their delivery commitments by being hands-on when needed.
  • Ensure the team follow the Software Development process and work with the Software Development Manager to refine and improve it.
  • Run the Agile/Scrum process for the team.
  • Stakeholder and progress reporting.
  • Identify and mitigate risks within the area of responsibility. Escalating risks, issues, and challenges when appropriate.
  • Acquire a comprehensive domain knowledge of our products and business
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
  • Minimum 2 years experience managing a team in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
  • People Management, delegation, 121’s, goal setting
  • Scrum Master experience preferred
  • SDLC - Requirements Gathering, Software Design, Development and QA Testing, CI/CD pipelines
  • Stakeholder Reporting
  • Risk Management
  • Strong background in software development as either an engineer or QA at a senior level
  • A background in building web applications and services using the Microsoft .Net platform
  • Knowledge of DevOps – continuous integration, deployment, DORA metrics
  • Experience working in a Product-led development environment desirable
  • Experience of product discovery methods desirable
  • Experience in the EdTech industry desirable
  • Communication - Effective communicator at all levels from team members to stakeholders and senior management. Able to give clear and concise instruction and ensure everyone is kept well-informed.
  • Motivation and Morale - Create high performance teams with high-morale through inspiration and motivation to keep them engaged and productive.
  • Conflict Resolution - Maintain harmony by resolving conflict within the team or with other stakeholders.
  • Focus and Agility - Keeping a cool head when under pressure to deliver against an ever-changing agile landscape.
  • Coaching - Able to understand and leverage your teams strengths and weaknesses to help them overcome any business challenges they are faced with, by ensuring the team has a diversified set of skills and capabilities.
  • Commitment to Quality - Continuously look at process improvement to maintain high standards of output from the team.
  • Continuous Development - Be the driver behind the continuous development of team skills to help them to realise their full potential and future growth.
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