Software Engineering Team Lead, Cubic Telecom

• You should be passionate about Agile development and strive to create an environment of empowerment and ownership of tasks
• Minimum 5 years of experience working within an Agile team to deliver enterprise level systems
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, computer/electronic engineering, or related science discipline
• Minimum 1 year of experience running a team of engineers within a scrum team
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills and the ability to engage in technical discussion and build consensus
• Strong understanding and experience of Agile practices particularly Scrum and running agile teams
• Ability to lead conversations with internal and external customers to better understand requirements and prioritise tasks
• Strong understanding of modern development practices such as SOLID principals or a strong understanding of modern testing principals such as TDD and BDD
• Good understanding of software delivery practices such as continuous delivery and integration
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced team lead to manage one of our Scrum teams. As the Team lead you will be responsible for guiding and mentoring the team to deliver its goals and meet the teams OKRs
• You will hold regular one to one meetings with team members to define goals and discuss career progression
• As the team lead you will liaise with the engineering manager to ensure the team are performing as expected and that best practices and guidelines are being followed
• The team lead will guide the team through its Agile ceremonies and work closely with the Product Owner to ensure the team knows it’s priorities and that all impediments are being addressed
• Lead the scrum team to ensure timely and consistent feature delivery
• Manage Scrum ceremonies and act on feedback from them
• Mentor team members and ensure the team is aligned on its sprint goals
• Follow best practice and work with the engineering managers and other team leads to foster an environment of engineering excellence
• Be a test first advocate to ensure test and test automation is built in from first principals
• Communicate across scrum teams to ensure the team is not blocked and that teams are aligned on architecture and strategy decisions
• Manage the teams Jira and ensure tickets are up to date