*Reports Directly To: Senior Director of Engineering
Experienced technical and business savvy individual who frequently interacts with peer roles in both product management and product engineering. The role has to do the balancing act of managing technical processes and teams along with using his technical skills to provide the necessary environment for project success.
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Key Responsibilities
Overall Purpose Of The Job
• Manage vendors to ensure successful delivery of all aspects of the projects.
• Provides technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration for project developments
• Responsible for designing the technical architecture in conformance to the prescribed set of measurable features (Performance, scalability, extensibility etc) which are outlined in the Business Requirements Specification (BRS).
• Manage the successful delivery of a number of client and group strategic projects, as defined in the project portfolio.
• Manages client engagement from definition phase through implementation.
• Creates partnership with project manager to give them technical assistance with important decisions. Elaborates quality requirements and drive technical evaluation.
• Keeps project manager well informed of status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Responsible for managing technical risks on the projects. Communicates and enforces coding standards.
The Technical Lead must be able to communicate well with both internal and external organisations, e.g. contract development firms, technology partners, and customers. Internally, the role communicates and works with Group Product Engineering and Product Management teams.
A creative individual with deep technological expertise, business acumen and software development background. Must be able to make technical and structural design choices relative to the product, dictates technical standards, software coding standards, operating and development environments, and technical infrastructure and metrics.
• Review work of development team
• Work effectively in a multi-tasking environment. Know how to prioritise competing tasks.
• Experience with building distributed n-tier systems
• Proficient in IOS/Android APP, .NET and responsive website etc. framework design and implementation.
• Conceptualisation Skills – Ability to create product architecture, evaluate and foresee the applicability of diverse architectural designs relative to the product.
• Deep understanding of web and/or mobile technology
• Engineering Skills – Ability to advocate and relate to different development methods and modelling techniques
• Experience in troubleshooting, software development processes and ability to understand and drive client requirements.
• Proficient in handling complex technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies, strong database concepts and designing techniques
• Guidance and management of external and internal delivery teams
• Driving the collaboration with business area(s), IS, and technology vendors to ensure that all project participants are effectively communicating and executing tasks as specified in the project plan.
• Good grip on non-functional areas like performance, scalability studies, human interaction, software ergonomics
• Good knowledge of different software systems, client/server architectures and various compatibility requirements.
• Ability to define, document, and communicate
Required Competencies (Critical behaviors necessary to successfully perform the job)
• .NET / JavaScript/ iOS/Android/ R Expertise
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with clarity, brevity and accuracy
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure within a matrix structure
• Strong Content Management and eCommerce background
• Hands-on with a strong sense of urgency, and willing to “roll sleeves up.”
• Business acumen and analytical skills
