Lead Software Engineer

Purpose : We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Americas IRIS Firm Management team. As a successful candidate you will be working as part of the IRIS Engineering function specifically on our Accountancy portfolio. This is a ‘hands-on’ technical role where you lead your team from the front to deliver features, product integrations, defect resolution and technical debt changes across web and cloud products. You will work with key stakeholders from across the business in Technical / Customer support and Product to ensure your team operates effectively, helping to remove impediments and drive continuous improvements. You will develop a strong relationship with product management to ensure software releases are aligned to the product roadmap, using agile processes. You will be responsible for the quality and on-time delivery of the software delivered by your team, liaising with other development, quality and technical leads to ensure that compliance, and other governance standards are met. You will need to be highly motivated, have strong communication and problem-solving skills. A team player that can rise to the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment and prepared to learn and apply new technical skills. This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset. Required Skills: – Solid technical grounding in Microsoft stack, Azure and the following technologies: C#, .NET Core, ReactJS, Blazor, Web API, TDD, Microsoft SQL Server, Microservices (AKS), Azure Service Bus Experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) Significant track record of delivering quality software projects using agile methodologies. Create and review designs to ensure that they are feasible and meet industry and IRIS standards Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure it meets coding, functional and non-functional standards Manage technical projects from inception to in-life maintenance and support Strong analysis and problem solving skills used to troubleshoot and fix technical issues Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to utilize Strong technical skills to develop and coach others Responsibilities : Delivery Delegation and monitoring of technical tasks to team members Ensure all team members are aware of and working towards release schedules for releases including dates and stage gates for all major milestones. Liaise with other IRIS teams for release purposes e.g. DevOps, Support Input to estimation process for requests coming from the business. General Hands on troubleshooting and problem-solving of software to including defect resolution and resolving production issues. Ensure consistency and adherence to SDLC and governance processes across team reporting to you. Champion nonfunctional requirements, embracing DevOps and shift to left using CI/CD pipelines. Ensure development tooling is being used consistently & effectively. Support continuous improvement efforts within the team and efficiency. People You will be the line manager and coach for your team and expected to set objectives, do performance appraisals, manage talent, and career progression for team members. Foster a learning mindset within the team Supports team members and promotes healthy respectful communications