Team Lead, .Net Software Developer

About the role:

The Success Engineering Team Lead is responsible for leading a team of experienced industry engineers that perform Level 3 software triage as well as ongoing creation and oversight of modern and legacy software capabilities.The ideal applicant is technical and will have hands-on experience building solutions with SDKs, APIs and common Microsoft development tools as well as experience working across various teams.

What you’lldo–People Management Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, coach, and grow a team of software development professionals.  

• Oversee your team’s performance, manage conflicts, promote continuous learning and professional growth/development.  

• Collaborate with Human Resources (HR) and other departments for activities related to recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and training.  

• Promote a positive and inclusive work environment, while upholding company values and culture.  

• Contribute to the strategic direction of the Customer Success and Success Engineering team holistically, while aligning to enterprise and department-level goals.  

• Positively represents the value the Success Engineering team brings to the Customer Success organization while fostering a culture of togetherness, adaptability, continuous improvement, and innovation.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and effective communication. 

• Engage with senior and executive leaders and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of projects.

• Manage a team of engineers and deliver quarterly performance evaluations, perform bi-annual career discussions, career development discussions and successfully address performance gaps without supervision.  

• Serve as an escalation point and backup for Managers.

• Review team interactions to identify roadblocks and ensure progress of open tickets.

• Review team interactions to identify roadblocks and ensure progress of active or stalled projects.

• Create, review and provide KPIs, supporting metrics, and scheduled reports to proactively address customer needs and coach the team.

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.

• Work with IT and other teams as the business representative during system implementations.

What you’ll do–Success Engineering Responsibilities

• Leverage technical knowledge, experience and resources to effectively handle the most complex needs or provide guidance to team members on how to resolve problems.

• Understands programming concepts, database design, and SQL.

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.

• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve defects in PRODUCTION environments in a timely manner and within OLA.

• Proactively suggest improvements to applications and processes that enhance the client experience or improve performance.

• Actively participate in the maintenance and support of the solution

• Participate in Agile development process and ceremonies.

• Work with the Management team and internal stakeholders to understand and document project requirements.

• Collaborate with other engineers on the technical design of solutions and collaboration on defect resolution.

• Keep up to date on the latest technical developments in your area.

• Implement design concepts required by internal or external stakeholders.

• Ensure compliance with Web standards and accessibility requirements.

• Work closely with product management, scrum master, and other team members to coordinate implementation and provide progress updates at daily standup meetings.

• Ensure robust high quality code standards are maintained in the development process.

• Will participate in Scrum team ceremonies.

What you’llbring(Job requirements) 

• 5+ years of experience in field

• Experience as proven team leader

• Experience in designing and developing applications in Microsoft .NET

• Preferred experience with ASP.NET

• Experience with common web technologies – JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, and HTML 

• Experience with SQL Server 2016 and higher

• Understanding of software engineering best practices and object-oriented development

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Git and continuous integration systems.

• Common European Reference framework; C1 level or higher

• Ability to deliver software which meets consistent standards of quality, security and operability. 

• Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities 

What we’re looking for:

• Critical thinker with the ability to manage multiple priorities.      

• Communicates information in a form well matched to and well received by the audience both internal and to customers

• Manage and prioritize tasks for multiple concurrent projects

• Looks beyond obvious solutions and attempts to identify underlying or hidden problems or trends.

• Seeks to identify and offer solutions to problems that affect other groups.            

• Asks critical, insightful questions, and probes for information that facilitates problem solving.      

• Evaluates the risks, benefits, and opportunities of various solutions.        

• Understands customers business needs and can interpret business analysis requirements.                            

• Recognizes quickly when progress towards results is slowing or stalling and takes immediate action to get back on track.             

• Demonstrates commitment to ongoing improvement, achieves success by collaborating on cross-functional changes that impact others, and a commitment to data-based decisions.

• Demonstrates initiative and the ability to find information or solutions needed for assignments and/or projects.             

• Demonstrates willingness to think outside the given parameters to see if there is a better, more effective way               

• Attempts through analysis to generate new, innovative ideas that optimize service delivery

• Manages customer expectations throughout implementation process

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