Technical Lead

**Title**:
Technical Lead

**Job Purpose**:
Bringing experience, expertise, guidance and leadership to the overall technical direction of the development and continuous modernization of our core logistics operations management system, Marken Maestro.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Be deeply committed to continuous improvement, refactoring, TDD and pair programming to achieve technical excellence and understand how this supports long-term customer value, with the experience to prove it.
- Understand how to work and lead in agile teams, with incremental and iterative development as key to deal with uncertainty and maintain flow.
- Understand how agile techniques and practices synthesize to enable incremental, iterative and continuous delivery of value.
- Understand how to plan and execute a system’s technical evolution alongside continuous value delivery.
- Alongside development group peers, collaborate with:

- The wider organization, assessing the technical risks and opportunities in organizational needs, contributing to the development roadmap.
- Groups of end-users, business analysts and quality assurance, contributing technical insights to planning and user story development.
- Development colleagues (including vendor teams) on improving skills and practices.
- Development team peers while planning and sizing user story development to align and guide technical decision making and communicate technical risks.
- Provide mentorship and leadership to software development team peers.
- Limited travel for regular team meet-ups.

**Qualifications and skills**:

- 15+ years’ experience in C#,.NET (Framework 4.x or Core/Standard), ideally in more than two companies.
- 15+ years’ experience in related industry - Logistics would be ideal but platform-heavy businesses such as Retail/Banking/Insurance are also relevant.
- Experience in continuously modernizing a system while maintaining true 24/7/365 system availability (Clinical Trials do not stop for weekends or even holiday seasons)
- Deep Agile mindset & XP development practices: Refactoring (at multiple levels), Pair programming, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Evolutionary System Architecture
- Experience in designing and building software systems using object-oriented and event-driven approaches in a domain-driven design paradigm.
- Experience with enterprise-level ASP.NET MVC5 sites hosted on IIS.
- Strong use of git.
- Experience in using Azure Microsoft Cloud offering.
- Experience of use of Azure DevOps for managing development, deployment, etc.
- In particular, setting up and maintaining development and deployment pipelines from Azure Devops into Azure Cloud.
- Experience and comfort with how to effectively use ORM.
- Fluent NHibernate would be best, but Entity Framework would also apply.
- Strong experience and comfort with use of LINQ.
- An innovator, looking and promoting your ideas for ways to improve both technology and process.
- Understands how to guide development and technical improvement both within and across with self-managing teams, building agreement and helping everyone to perform well together.
- Flexible attitude and able to embrace rapid change.
- A team player with high standards, including collaboration with vendor teams.
- Good communicator able to work well with users and senior management in one’s business.
- Ability to remain calm and focused and prioritize competing demands.
- Use of Specflow for BDD

**Strongly Advantageous**:

- Blazor WebAssembly
- MassTransit
- Experience in using FRP (Functional Reactive Programming)
- In particular, use of Rx

**Nice to have**:

- SQL Server (in particular 2016 and later)
- RabbitMQ
- Javascript & JQuery
- Experience of building mobile apps Xamarin or MAUI
- Experience of using Telerik UI components

**Marken** is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS and is a critical part of UPS Healthcare. Marken offers a state-of-the-art GMP-compliant depot network and logistic hubs for clinical drug product storage and distribution worldwide, and supports cell and gene therapy logistics services from clinical to commercial, while maintaining the leading position for Direct-to-Patient and Home Healthcare services, biological sample shipments and biological kit production.

**Moving Our World Forward by Delivering What Matters.