Endeavour has an excellent opportunity for a Technical Lead to join our client who utilise the extensive skill set of its experts and maintains a pool of knowledge with its development teams to develop software that delivers business value.
Urgently recruiting for a Technical Lead to join a fast growing team,. Looking for a motivated and forward-thinking professional to help the team to deliver bigger and better digital platforms. With this UK client no project is the same, so look forward to an exciting and diverse opportunity.
As a Technical Lead, your duties will include working with clients to understand the problems they are trying to solve, work with the developers to plan stories, and take the lead throughout the development projects. In this role, you will build relationships across all levels of the organisation and help solve complex challenges by creating innovative business and/or digital enterprise solutions.
You will have the ability to operate in Agile methodologies defining the change needed (in the form of design decisions, project designs, roadmaps and/or technology selection) to meet stated business outcomes and align to the overall IT strategy.
You will be a trusted advisor to the business, often working and driving value on large transformation programmes. Helping the business achieve their vision, it'll be your job to provide technology architecture solution leadership and expertise, throughout all stages of the engagement life cycle. This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact within a supportive and growing company. Above all, you will have a love for digital technologies and the great potential technology can have.
Responsibilities:
- Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
- Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
- Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
- Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
- Analysing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
- Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
Your day:
- Morning stand-ups which you will lead with the Scrum Master ensuring work is planned in and teams know what they need to work on.
- Client management, ensuring any outstanding request In Jira or Teams are reviewed and monitored.
- Planning, continuously advising both internal and external stakeholders about the delivery of the agreed scope using the available resources within the project plan you have laid out at the outset of the work.
- Reports, both in writing and meetings, you will report on the status of all deliverables and results in context of the success criteria defined by you and the client.
- Tracking, ensuring the right amount of efficiency by keeping track of project resource and ensuring priorities are set and agreed with the client.
Requirements:
- Experience leading teams/projects, C#, reactJS, Azure integration services, APIM, ADF, Azure DevOps)
- Experience of working within a regulated industry.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at senior levels, both written and oral, within the business and IT strategy areas.
- Experience of projects with significant integration challenges. Deep understanding of integration approaches and technologies.
- Experience of at least one technical architecture discipline (application, data or infrastructure), some knowledge of others.
- A broad and recognised set of knowledge across the full spectrum of Architecture, including things like; Leadership and ownership of technology solutions, Cloud transformation, Digital transformations, Technology architecture tools and techniques as well as knowledge of TOGAF or equivalent method awareness and real-world experience, Technology domain knowledge and experience.
- Establishing good relationships with clients and other professionals.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Collaborative approach for driving decisions.
- Fluent command of written and spoken English.
- Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Experience in working with teams of >= 5 members.
Your Skills:
- Working understanding of life cycle and business processes in a Technical Lead capacity.
- Extensive Business Analysis skills including process mapping and business process reengineering.
- Experience in a number of the following areas: system implementations, change management, user testing management/best practice, training design, and delivery.
- Experience in the technical improvement of new platforms.
- Experience in working on a financial change program is highly desirable.
- Atlassian tools including Jira/Confluence
- Experience in working on complex projects dealing with several processes and applications
- Business analysis qualifications would be beneficial
- Strong communication and stakeholder management experience, as well as working with third-party vendors
- Strong understanding of the technical challenges faced by a global business, able to understand IT analysis and risks in this business context
- Ability to build successful working relationships with both clients and colleagues and inspire confidence in all directions
- Familiar working with the Google business suite as well as Microsoft 365
- Experience with remote work and using Microsoft Teams
- Stress resistant, proven capability of juggling multiple projects at once
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Passion for anything tech and digital
- Can work UK hours 9am – 6pm
Other Requirements
- The role can be remote or hybrid, working mainly from home using Teams, email and video conferencing for our daily stand-ups with an office space in London which will require the post holder to be motivated, disciplined and able to work under their own initiative.
The candidate will interact with a variety of teams and individuals both internally and externally, therefore should be a strong communicator (both written and verbal), and an effective team player.
Please get in touch for further details on joining this friendly, professional and approachable team!