Team Lead Developer - Full Stack - Permanent

Location: London

Overview

The Full Stack Team Lead Developer is a key role, leading the development capability for both the legacy and new emerging technologies within the IT department for a Global Professional Services Firm based in Central London. This will support the delivery of Business Transformation across the organisation and to clients. Focusing on progression and innovation of user-centric digital products to drive improvements and efficiencies across the business.

The Team Lead Developer will work closely with the business relationship management, architects, solution design teams and agile project manager to build and deliver a tactical digital & innovation portfolio workstream.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands on full-stack developer, including strong front-end development capability and a good understanding of UX
• Management responsibility of a small team of developers and one UX/UI designer
• Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting both enterprise and client facing applications
• Collaborating with Business Relationship Managers and Solution Designers to turn concepts into practical solutions for relevant business challenges
• To build and deliver a balanced portfolio of strategic and tactical digital innovation projects
• Prototyping, piloting, development & scaling of user-centric digital products as well as implementing new & emerging technologies to drive efficiencies and improvement across the business
• Scan and leverage cross-industry trends in new & emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science to apply in the context of accountancy and professional services
• Act as technical point of contact when collaborating with external vendor partners and work with them to leverage their development capabilities
• Development Leadership - work with the senior technical manager to create best-practice software development processes
• Contribute to thought leadership by keeping up-to-date on new approaches, techniques and tools and take account of changes and trends in technology, the market-place and in the business and propose changes to future plans accordingly
• Mentor and support junior developers

Key Skills/Experience:

• Proven track record of successfully building and delivering digital products (mobile & web apps and services) to market using agile methodologies
• Key development skillsets: C#, .NET platform, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Azure PaaS (Azure Functions; Azure Logic Apps; Cosmos DB; Azure App Service; ARM templates), SharePoint & React
• Extensive experience with full Microsoft technology stack
• Experience with Office 365 including PowerApps, Flow; SharePoint Online
• Experience of authentication, access and identity management technology using Azure AD
• Experience with cloud platforms, especially Microsoft Azure
• Experience of application integration at the various levels application, application interface or data layer
• Experienced in modern DevOps methodologies and continuous integration using Git
• Experience of test driven development preferred
• Fin-tech or Reg-tech product development experience preferre
• Demonstrate a good understanding of User Experience methodology and its importance in digital product development
• BSc / MSc in Computer Science with a required minimum of 6 years of applicable industry experience strongly preferred)

This is an incredible opportunity to join a progressive IT department at a leading Professional services firm and make a real imprint on the way the firm will move forward in the future. Please send your CV to Alex Simmons for immediate consideration.