The Software Engineering Lead is responsible for driving functional specifications, user stories, epics, high/low-level designs, test, integration, and deployment strategies and subsystem interfaces. The lead shall make use of well-established design patterns and architectures, choice of software algorithms, and follow agile development processes.
The Software Engineering Lead is responsible for planning, and managing the deliveries aligning to the process decided for the program. Play the role of a local proxy-product owner, set up the scrum teams and execute the project using the defined Scrum process and continuously improving the teams Agile approach.
The Software Engineering Lead shall ensure that system-wide issues are resolved and the subsystems are properly designed and unit tested. The goal here is to ensure that the overall product delivery quality, target deadlines, and cost goals are met.
The Software Engineering Lead shall also serve as the interface to other teams working on other components of the product and collaborate with them.
Team Management responsibilities
Training / Mentoring / Coaching for team members to create a solid implementation team well versed in technical and development methodologies
Development processes being adhered to by his/her team.
Morale / productivity of team members - sense such issues - and initiate actions or escalate as appropriate to address these.
Effective resource planning for the team and required inputs for forecasting.
Accountable for meeting functional goals within his/her team.
Team planning, skill development and skill-matching.
Supporting a high performance culture/environment in a team and appropriate and timely recognition of contributions taking note of ability / dedication / discipline.
Performance management in a fair and timely manner of direct reports, and effective review of appraisals and promotions by team members.
Organizing/Chairing technical reviews with teams.
Ensure the well-being of the team is taken care of.
Primary Responsibilities
Effectively estimate, plan, manage and deliver the owned components/features.
Ability to learn and manage a cloud native full stack team and contribute technically towards team s delivery.
Drive specifications, user stories and epics, high-level design, low-level design, data structures, and choice of algorithms, the decision on development platforms, system interfaces, and test plans.
Manage the quality of the work products and ensure that work is done as estimated.
Resolve system design/interface issues that surface during implementation and resolve dependencies
Responsible for highlighting problem areas (with enough time to act) and taking action to mitigate at their own level or to effectively escalate to a higher level(s) of engineering.
Estimate (size, effort, budgets) and plan (schedule, dependencies, deliverables, equipment planning, staffing plans) projects and tasks.
Accurate Project Status Reporting on a weekly basis and as needed by the management.
Effective change management in the project(s) arising due to external or internal factors.
Drive customer issues to closure in a timely manner.
Publish approved applications into respective App Stores.
Perform ongoing training / mentoring / coaching of the team members so as to create a solid development team well versed in technology and software engineering principles.
Performance management in a fair and timely manner of direct reports, and effective review of appraisals and promotions by team members.
Morale/productivity of team members - sense such issues - and initiate actions or escalate as appropriate to address these on time.
Create a high-performance work culture in the team
Technical Skills and Background
Must have done at least 3 large implementations or 3-4 projects using these technologies.
Experience in building highly secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable applications.
Deep development experience in Web full-stack technologies.
Candidates with C# NET background are the most preferred.
Experience in writing clean and reusable code
Deep Development experience on SQL Technologies, handling SQL related programming, debugging, developing stored procedures etc.,
Hands-on development background in cloud technologies
Hands-on experience in consuming Soap/Restful APIs, and knowledge of JSON / XML /
Exposure to PaaS and SaaS ways of developing the product is a value add.
Deeper understanding of Web / Cloud testing processes and practices
Sound knowledge of DevOps/SRE practices will be a huge value add.
A thorough understanding of the CI/CD pipeline needed for mobile application development
Strong on basics of theoretical computer science and O level mathematics.
PMI or Agile or SAFe certification will be a plus point.
Work Experience
Minimum Required Qualification
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science and Engineering or equivalent.
PMI or Agile / SaFe certification are preferred.
Certification by Microsoft in .Net technologies/Azure are preferred.
