Position Summary:
The Software Engineering Lead is the one who leads the VBIT Digital Ninja squad. You will be expected to be hands on, have experience in building software based solutions but also able to work with demanding and ambitious stakeholders. You will need to have experience in understanding pain points, understanding of the business processes underpinning these, articulate a solution in the form of a minimum viable product and then build towards this solution, iteratively whilst collaborating with IT and business stakeholders. You will need to be innovative, to be at the forefront of technologies available and not be afraid of experimenting to get to a desired outcome.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be able to take projects from inception to completion – be a self-starter and self-motivated!
- Ensure that solutions created can be supported by either IT or business functions and working with IT DevOps to set up the support model accordingly.
- Execute using agile methodology (scrum or Kanban) and ensure that the release of the software runs alongside the main agile release train where applicable.
- Build solutions which can be re-usable and/or scalable.
- Be Innovative in their ideas, approach and execution and most importantly have a growth mindset which allows for a higher level of learning.
- Be able to work with IT to ensure that shadow IT applications or solutions are not built.
- Plan and execute work and projects preferably using JIRA.
Required Education & Experience:
- Highly motivated, autonomous individual with strong methodological background and focus on business needs
- Proven experience of delivery in an agile environment (such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)
Agile practitioner - Experience in other programming languages or able to learn if required for particular projects (eg. Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Ability to build influential and effective relationships with senior business stakeholders.
- Detailed knowledge of Microsoft programming applications and frameworks such as SharePoint and its APIs, Azure etc.
- High proficiency in JavaScript programming (Vue.js or similar)