Job Overview

As our Aldebaran Development Technical Lead you will drive technical design, implementation and direction by:

•    Upholding the principles and standards of Tech & Data to ensure deliveries are of high quality and performance.
•    Evaluating and championing new technologies, whilst considering risks to delivery and production systems, working closely with the solution architects to optimise designs based on the latest offerings.
•    Providing quality assurance, during the creation of high and low level technical designs, software development and testing lifecycle
•    Driving the technical design and implementation within Aldebaran team, working on the development and maintenance of software which stays in sync with TfL architecture standards, design principles and coding standards
•    Setting up and leading the adoption of development and test standards in the team and represent the team in support of governance processes.
•    Leading estimation, ensuring all risk and contingency factors are covered and accounted for.

Experience

•    Experience of automation and continuous integration with tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines and PowerShell or Python scripting
•    Experience of software development in one or more modern object-oriented programming languages such as C#, C++ or Java, based on test-driven-development strategies
•    Experience of working in agile software development teams utilising Scrum
•    Experience of leading a group of development teams, identifying training requirements, and leading on training of team members via relevant resources such as those available online and/or internally organised training sessions
•    Experience of designing and or implementing Cloud solution architectures using Azure and/or AWS IaaS, PaaS resources, such as those concerning integration, messaging, storage, virtual machines, databases, certificates and secrets 

Skills

•    Ability to interpret project requirements and challenge these, where necessary, to produce technical designs and working solutions
•    Ability to analyse complex existing or proposed systems, draw conclusions, make decisions, and produce solution designs
•    Ability to improve quality and efficiency through comprehensive knowledge of business processes that can lead to re-engineering simplification and/or process improvements
•    Ability to identify business and team needs and to devise, define, and drive strategies for meeting them
•    Ability to produce estimates for own and other developer tasks with an appropriate accuracy and precision
•    Ability to build working relations with immediate team, members of the wider organisation, and members of partner companies, and influence decisions to maximise realised benefits to projects and/or products
•    Ability to mentor and coach others regarding technical and non-technical aspects of systems delivery

Knowledge

•    Software Development
o    Object-Oriented Development
o    Test-Driven Development
o    C# (C++, Java)
o    Coding Standards
•    Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
o    Azure DevOps Pipelines
•    Version Control
o    Git
•    Agile
o    Kanban
o    Scrum
o    Azure DevOps Boards
•    Web Development
o    HTML
o    CSS
o    JavaScript frameworks
o    Typescript
o    Accessibility Standards
o    WCAG (2.1 and above)
•    Architectural Design
o    Networking
o    Storage
o    Web Servers
o    Web APIs
o    Proxies
o    Patterns
o    Azure Integration Services

Salary & Benefits

In return for your expertise, along with being excited at the thought of being able to help make London the ultimate technologically smart city, we can offer an excellent benefits package including final salary pension scheme and a generous holiday entitlement of 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible working. You can make significant savings on travel thanks to a free Oyster Card travel pass; 75% discount on national rail season ticket and interest free loan; and discounted travel on the Eurostar. You can also choose to take advantage of a discounted private healthcare scheme, tax-efficient childcare payments, and a host of retail, health, leisure and travel offers.