Software Engineer Team Lead

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Project/Department Description and Responsibilities

Together with the Technical Team Lead, you’ll Coordinate a IT software development team and guarantee the quality of services delivered to clients by his team. Manage, organize, represent and optimize the activities of his team.

Carry out one or several trans-boundary projects (concept, follow-up, implementation, evaluation) taking care to respect scope, timing, budget and quality, in accordance with the internal processes of the company.

Primary Tasks and responsibilities

o Communicate and implement the changes/projects necessary within the Development-Unit based on the strategy determined by the management of the department.

o Based on the analysis, observations and experience in the field, advice the strategic reflection of the management through recommendations (strategic notes).

o Support the fellow team members to enable them to achieve the highest standards of quality of services delivered to customers.

o Support the evaluation & objectives of each team member in close collaboration with the team-lead

o Define a training plan for all employees (hard and soft skills).

o Coach and motivate employees to achieve their goals.

o Foster team spirit and encourage the production of positive ideas to improve the way of working.

o Ensure the achievement of the team’s objectives and compliance with internal rules and procedures through: delegation, task division, priority setting for the team, resource planning and management, monitoring and continuous support.

o Ensure that the services delivered comply with the requirements defined in the company’s standards (Scrum, ITIL, SLA,...)

o Make sure the availability of relevant information enabling all employees to accomplish their missions is available and comprehensive. Communicate effectively to internal and external customers and suppliers in case of problems.

o Determine and assign the activities to the project members

o Supervision of the ’project review’ process so that there is a dynamic of continuous improvement based on the lessons learned

o Apply the knowledge, tools and processes for the Development-Unit

o Actively cooperate and participate individually and in a team in the acquisition and development of the knowledge, tools and processes in those domains.

o Ensure stakeholder management, partnership, cohesion and synergy with all the parties involved (client, project team, sponsors, suppliers, unions, users, management, other departments, ...) in relation to the objective of a project.

Secondary Tasks and responsibilities

• People Management

• Coaching & Training

• Reporting

• Stakeholder Management

• Constant evolvement conducted in lessons learned after each milestone achieved

• Put in practice the improvement actions and good practices of software development

Technical profile requirements

• Technical background as developer (Java & .NET)

• Expert knowledge SCRUM, Scrum-scaled, (f.e.: SAFE )

• Very good knowledge of cloud-technologies

• Very good knowledge of Devops is a strong plus

• Good knowledge of Project/Program Management: Planview, MS Project

• LEAN-methodology is a nice to have

• knowledge of ITIL Foundation Methodology is a Nice To Have

• Good knowledge MS Office

• Good knowledge of corporate governance process

• knowledge of legal and administration is a nice to have

Non-Technical profile requirements

• Accepts personal responsibility for client satisfaction

• Ability to identify and implement process and/or application improvements

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision

• Quick learner, motivated self-starter

• Excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills

• Able to follow change management procedures and internal guidelines

• Leadership skills compatible with +3y of professional experience

• People Management skills compatible with +3y of professional experience

Methodology/Certification requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.

• Scrum

• Project/Programme Planning/Management

Language proficiencies

• FR: native

• NL: professional working knowledge

• ENG: professional working knowledge

.Net: 5 years

DevOps 3 years

Java Development 5 years

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Negotiation skills, Stakeholder Management, Leadership 4 years

Project Management: 3 years

Quality Assurance : 5 years

Software Architecture: 5 years

Software Testing: 5 years

Training & Coaching: 3 years

ITIL Foundation: 3 years

SAFe/ Scrum : 3 years