Software Development Team Lead

The Software Development Team Lead directly manages a team of software developers and front-end specialists and is responsible for the coordination of development assets in completing known work, identifying, and repairing bugs, providing technical feedback, and supporting business partners and IT teams. The Software Development Team Lead works closely with peer Team Leads and IT Leadership to ensure project expectations are known, roadblocks are identified and mitigated, progress and resource availability is tracked, and work is completed on time. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Support IT leadership in creating and maintaining team culture and reliability  

• Maintain high standards of product quality within the team by creating and maintaining good practices and habits 

• Delegate, supervise, and guarantee the timely delivery of personal and team tasks  

• Provide team-level administrative oversight for the technical team responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and troubleshooting existing applications and services  

• Conduct regular one on one meetings with team members and provide critical feedback as necessary to the employee, or to IT Leadership  

• Ensure required team training is completed in a timely manner  

• Ensure work is understood by the development team, and remove roadblocks preventing timely completion of work  

• Serve as both ScrumMaster and technical lead for the software development team, ensuring work items are sized, and assigned based on team capacity 

• Aggregate and communicate project progress, resource availability, and team needs and roadblocks to IT Leadership  

• Support management in monitoring error tracking dashboards and reporting systems, and work with development resources to quickly address errors in critical business systems 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES  

• This role directly supervises a team of junior developers, developers, and/or senior developers  

• This role will collaborate with and may directly supervise offshore development teams 

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience  

• 5+ years of experience operating in a technical position on a software development team 

• 3+ years of experience leading a team of software developers, or acting in a senior technical position for a software development team  

• 2+ years of experience using issue or project tracking software such as DevOps or Jira 

SKILLS 

• Proven track records of delivering software solutions that meet business needs  

• Strong technical skills  

• Excellent communication skills 

• Detail oriented with the ability to exercise sound judgment and escalate critical issues  

• Self-motivated individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills  

• Ability to motivate, influence and grow teams    

• Ability to lead Agile events such as syncs, retrospectives, demos, and planning 

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