Development Team Lead

Role Description

The Technical Lead is an enabler in the project team. They are tasked with ensuring the development team on the project is productively working towards the technical delivery goals. They are also responsible for ensuring high functional and non-functional quality and high code quality.

In this role you are a force-multiplier who achieves success through leading coaching and guiding others.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Analysis and design

• Help developers understand the problem at hand before their build starts help them with problem decomposition.
• Provide ad-hoc consultations for developers and do pair-work when necessary (to analyse work inefficiencies and remove technical blockers).
• Collaborating with internal and client SMEs to deliver complex data mapping solutions for migrations: analyzing designing and maintaining ETL workflows resolving issues testing and providing post-implementation support.
• In conjunction with solution consultants specify and direct developers to find and reuse existing solutions for their builds and to design their code to make future reusability as easy as possible.
• Help break large build items into sub-items (to enable more efficient and detailed progress tracking) in a way that aids smooth development.
• Take an active role in understanding the business domain and contributing to requirements gathering.

Development

• Supervise technical quality (e.g. by doing pair-work ad-hoc reviews code reviews and spot-checks in promoted code).
• Give fast continuous feedback to developers as their build progresses.
• Support regression testing by teaching and encouraging developers to write automated tests and unit tests.

SDLC and process oversight

• Ensure the SDLC is adhered to by all developers submitting changes. This includes handover sessions (Three Amigos) functional reviews code reviewers test-driven development measures and ensuring good hygiene in the issue tracker.
• Ensure CI builds are green or being fixed immediately after break.
• Make sure every release has developer support allocated and problems are picked up without delay.
• Be responsible for deployment readiness and prepare complete technical stage gates for production releases.
• Actively raise risks and concerns that impact delivery or cause production issues.

Non-functional requirements

• Enforce correct usage of coding standards within the team.
• Take responsibility for non-functional requirements (useability performance security etc.). Raise requirements and solutions that introduce issues in this space and work with colleagues to solve.

Community and collaboration

• Remain across company-wide initiatives development practices/principles components and tools and implement these on your project.
• Participate actively in local technical lead forums communities of practice guilds and groups to identify problems and provide solutions that enhance development across the organisation.
• Actively look for weak points (e.g. parts of system that are too difficult/costly to maintain features with high defect rates and scalability erns) and provide solutions to address them.
• Assist the Head of Development with succession planning. Build depth in the team by delegating technical lead tasks to other developers.
• Liaise with network administrators systems analysts and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.

Functional Area Responsibilities

• Technical leadership of the team to ensure high productivity and quality on your assigned project.
• Responsibility for non-functional requirements.

Experience required

Industry Knowledge

First class bachelors degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.

Experience of working on large scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change as part of these projects.

Confident and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment.

Experience of working with different levels of stakeholders within a project environment.

Expert in the FNZ platform technologies and delivery methodologies

Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry.

Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.

Hard-working innovative and takes pride in their work.

Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Expert in development products C# and SQL Server.
• Expert in web development including JavaScript and ReactJS.
• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: MVC Framework versions.
• Understanding of financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. Its at the heart of who we are and everything we do. Its what inspires excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

Thats why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other with our customers and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

• Customer obsessed for the long-term
• Think big and make an impact
• Act now and own it all the way
• Challenge commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: from day one you will work alongside exceptional multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ we recognise that diversity equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender ethnicity/race faith age nationality gender identity sexual orientation marital status socio-economic background disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.

In addition we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported if you require specific support please advise us.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealths growth platform to help. We provide a global end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with the worlds leading financial institutions with over US$2.2 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.