Technical Lead, Front End Development
Technical Lead, Front End Development
London W1 – Hybrid working available
Salary: £100,000 p.a. + bens
Fantastic opportunity to join thisglobal mobile games publisher, content and technology company at their office in Central London.
You will be working with multiple global teams of IT professionals from a wide range of backgrounds such as Software Architects, Product Managers, Product Developers, subject matter experts and others on System Architecture and Interface Development. You will participate in the implementation of solutions that will improve the current product performance, quality, processes, and standards, establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards and should be focused on collaborative team environments. You will commence in a technical lead role focused on front end development but the role with grow into more of a Technical Architect role as the position and individual develops within the company.
The ideal candidates will be able to lead a small team who work hybrid/remotely, working closely with the two software engineers and Senior IAM Engineer who are all reporting into you and whose work you will review and contribute to it as required. This role is ideal for candidates with at least 7 years of experience in building large scale software platform and managing team of 3-4 developers.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of company’s strategic business plans.
- Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a technology standards policy and best practices.
- Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
- Research, develop, document, recommend, and communicate plans for investing in systems architecture, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
- Provide portfolio governance and oversight to drive lifecycle optimization and alignment across all initiatives.
- Managing a small team of 3 at least to start as the team will continue to grow.
- Oversee and edit coding from software engineers as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience Required:
- 4+ years’ experience of building and front-end applications, UI frameworks using Angular 4+, HTML5, JavaScript.
- 7+ years’ experience of deep .NET development (C#) development experience including cross-platform communication technologies such as Rest APIs.
- 7+ years’ experience of database design, SQL programming, and performance tuning experience.
- Agile development methodology.
- Experience with cloud technology e.g. Kubernetes, Dockers on AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Good Debugging, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Good experience of CI/CD processes, tool and technologies.
The following skills would be preferred but are not essential: Micro Services, Work tracking tools such (Jira, TFS) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) using modern technologies.