Lead Developer/ Team Lead

Overview

In this Lead Developer role you will drive technical delivery and people leadership for a small, highly capable team. You’ll work on a greenfield trading platform, cloud migration, and bank-based API development within a well-known fintech/insurtech software house. You’ll partner with product managers and analysts to plan, estimate, and deliver complex initiatives from design to release. The environment is technical, fast-moving, and merit-driven, offering growth and significant impact in shaping core products.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus scheme
• training budget
• pension
• life/health insurance
• flexible working

Responsibilities

• Line management and coaching of a team of developers
• Balance development and people management (approx. 70:30)
• Deliver multiple complex product initiatives from design to release
• Collaborate with product, project managers and analysts to produce estimates and manage transitions
• Define project delivery phases and maintain logs for issues and risks
• Participate in reviews and progress updates; suggest process improvements
• Oversee client technical support desk operations
• Contribute to departmental and systems strategy and objectives
• Undertake small consulting-style analysis projects

Key requirements

• Hands-on coding ability in C#
• Mentoring and leadership experience
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall
• Strong C#, .NET and Azure development background
• Experience with lifecycle management and project delivery (Agile SCRUM or Waterfall)
• Exposure to ALM tools such as Team Foundation Server, TeamCity, BeanStalk, and Git

• Mentoring and team leadership
• Delivery-focused planning
• Cross-functional collaboration
• C#/.NET
• Azure
• SQL

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