Tech Lead

Job Purpose

At the level of lead engineer, you are seen as a natural leader by your peers. You have a deep experience in designing and building secure, scalable, applications for the web using .Net, AWS and SQL - a background working in financial services at enterprise scale is preferred. You live our design and development methodologies, understand our business. You should have extensive knowledge on enterprise systems, security, development technologies within the Microsoft Stack, as well as excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills

To complete development activities required to meet business requirements. Development activities should be completed within expected delivery dates and should adhere to all Invesco development standards. The ability to communicate with project managers and other IT professionals is a must.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze information on existing business processes in order to make recommendations that seek to improve business systems and processes.
• Analyze and document requirements for enhancements to systems and / or business processes. May involve investigation of third party vendors or systems.
• Clearly document solutions and recommendations to business problems.
• Review requirements and designs with relevant stakeholders to obtain agreement and sign off of proposals.
• Create cost and time estimates along with project plans to enable prioritization and execution of work.
• Complete all tasks related to development, unit testing, user acceptance testing, reporting and system implementation in accordance with the IT development life cycle.
• Always conform to documentation, coding and quality standards as defined.
• Maintain system support documentation for all supported applications, ensuring it is kept up to date.
• Assist with necessary documentation and implementation plans in the promotion of code to production environments
• Assist with regular system upgrades on third party applications by reviewing functionality changes (new/amended), system testing and updating of support documentation.
• Communicate with project managers and management using clear, user-friendly terminology (emails, phone, meetings).
• Must demonstrate a strong customer focused attitude and understand the fundamentals of customer service.
• Work with peers to do unit testing and code review to ensure quality builds.

Skills and Experience Required

• 8+ years technical leadership and architecture experience in software development
• 6+ years of ASP.NET, C#, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and SQL Server, AWS and Microservices
• 5+ years working in SQL-backed environments.
• In depth knowledge of client side JavaScript frameworks like React and Redux
• In depth knowledge of REST services(WCF, Web API, Microservices)
• Solid work experience in building SaaS based products.
• Experience and clear understanding of how to plan and execute within iterations and sprints
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Innovative, challenging programming work in the Microsoft stack, with SQL Server as a back end
• Experience building for the web using C#, Bootstrap, Vue, AJAX, CSS, jQuery, REST and the latest technologies.
• Ability to work independently with the knowledge and capability to come in and make an immediate impact
• Experience working in a sprint-driven development process.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems or Computer Science is preferred or commensurate relevant work experience