Lead Technical Architect (FinTech/SaaS)

Lead Technical Architect (FinTech/SaaS)

Our client is a leading provider of a powerful SaaS platform that organises and accelerates businesses offering insurance solutions. Their platform is a predominantly API driven platform that provides their clients with infrastructure to distribute and manage insurance products to their customers. Their vision is to enable businesses to democratise insurance and make it easily available, simple, transparent, and cost-effective for everyone.

Job Type: Remote | Full-time

Requirements

• Scrum Master qualified is a plus
  
• 3-5 years managing development and support teams
  
• At least 5 years programming experience
  
• 3-5 years of agile delivery experience
  
• Exposure to the company s tech stack, and a senior Python Programmer, with at least 2 years of Django experience, and Rest Framework and Angular (if not Django, then 2 years Ruby on Rails)
  
• Experience of software design and development
  
• Extensive hands-on experience with software delivery, agile ways of working and project management
  
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
  
• Project management experience
  
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
  
• Effective negotiation and vendor management skills
  
• Proactive problem solver
  
• Proven experience leading teams
  
• Ability to mentor team members and build environments of knowledge sharing
  
• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS
  
• Experience in a similar industry is a plus
  
• Problem solver, highly adaptive, and people focused. Needs to hit the ground running
  
• Well presented, can be the face of the tech side of the business
  
• Enjoy discerning between important and urgent deliverables.
  
• Enjoy accountability and can manage realistic delivery expectations.
  
• Good at implementing robust solutions that meet the functional requirements, but disciplined about not getting scope creep or get obsessed about perfection
  

Responsibilities

• Work closely with and report to the CTO.
  
• Lead and manage a team of developers, working closely with senior team members to build the connection between technical excellence and effective ways of working
  
• Technical recruitment, motivating and performance managing the team
  
• Ensuring the personal development needs of each team member is identified and forms part of a dynamic plan to grow and mature the technical and interpersonal skills of the team
  
• Build and foster a culture of learning within the technical team
  
• Drive the strategic outcome of the products & services taking into account, and balancing, emergent and legacy technologies
  
• Ensuring a sound strategy is in place for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation
  
• Devise and execute a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team to implement improvements to products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team
  
• Facilitate the smooth delivery of all projects, enhancements and support requests
  
• Facilitate technology and way of working decisions throughout team, working closely with senior team members to ensure standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes
  
• Demonstrable coding ability and able to be hands on with coding.
  
• Ensure the skills within the team are kept up to date with the latest software development technologies, methodologies and practices
  
• Ensure consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, security, documentation, coding and testing
  
• Build a culture of consistent and deliberate improvement to ensure reusability, efficiency and growing high standards of delivery within the team
  
• Ensure high standards of quality and stability are consistently maintained
  

Do we spark your interest? Then send us your CV today!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

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Blackpen Recruitment is a global recruitment agency that targets European, African and American Markets with headquarters based in Malta and Cape Town. Blackpen specialises in FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Startup and iGaming Recruitment.

Scrum Master qualified is a plus 3-5 years managing development and support teams At least 5 years programming experience 3-5 years of agile delivery experience Exposure to the company s tech stack, and a senior Python Programmer, with at least 2 years of Django experience, and Rest Framework and Angular (if not Django, then 2 years Ruby on Rails) Experience of software design and development Extensive hands-on experience with software delivery, agile ways of working and project management Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills Project management experience Excellent organisational and time-management skills Effective negotiation and vendor management skills Proactive problem solver Proven experience leading teams Ability to mentor team members and build environments of knowledge sharing Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS Experience in a similar industry is a plus Problem solver, highly adaptive, and people focused. Needs to hit the ground running Well presented, can be the face of the tech side of the business Enjoy discerning between important and urgent deliverables. Enjoy accountability and can manage realistic delivery expectations. Good at implementing robust solutions that meet the functional requirements, but disciplined about not getting scope creep or get obsessed about perfection Responsibilities Work closely with and report to the CTO. Lead and manage a team of developers, working closely with senior team members to build the connection between technical excellence and effective ways of working Technical recruitment, motivating and performance managing the team Ensuring the personal development needs of each team member is identified and forms part of a dynamic plan to grow and mature the technical and interpersonal skills of the team Build and foster a culture of learning within the technical team Drive the strategic outcome of the products & services taking into account, and balancing, emergent and legacy technologies Ensuring a sound strategy is in place for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation Devise and execute a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team to implement improvements to products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team Facilitate the smooth delivery of all projects, enhancements and support requests Facilitate technology and way of working decisions throughout team, working closely with senior team members to ensure standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes Demonstrable coding ability and able to be hands on with coding. Ensure the skills within the team are kept up to date with the latest software development technologies, methodologies and practices Ensure consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, security, documentation, coding and testing Build a culture of consistent and deliberate improvement to ensure reusability, efficiency and growing high standards of delivery within the team Ensure high standards of quality and stability are consistently maintained Do we spark your interest? Then send us your CV today! We are looking forward to hearing from you! ---------- Blackpen Recruitment is a global recruitment agency that targets European, African and American Markets with headquarters based in Malta and Cape Town. Blackpen specialises in FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Startup and iGaming Recruitment.