Technical Team Lead (Software Development)
Sustainability that means business
Who we are:
Sustainability software specialist, AMCS, is headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Europe, the USA, and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly-skilled employees across 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technology solutions to facilitate a carbon neutral future.
What we do:
Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and boost sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers across 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, ensuring we deliver practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience across the globe.
Our people
AMCS offers team members more than just a job, but an opportunity to map out a career with a company that is growing, evolving and setting out new ways of working that are having a positive impact on the world around us. AMCS was established in Ireland and holds onto those local roots and ‘start-up’ mentality with a culture of connection.Connection to our work, our customers, our colleagues and our community that creates a working environment that fosters openness, collaboration and creativity.
We are looking for a Technical Team Lead to oversee an agile team of software developers and quality assurance engineers. This position can be based anywhere in Ireland.
Overall Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced technical and people leader to lead a global software development scrum team, building the next generation AMCS SaaS platform- Leads a team of software developers and quality engineers to deliver key aspects of the AMCS SaaS platform roadmap
- Clear growth path into software development manager role, managing multiple teams, with team leads, scrum masters and lead developers as direct reports.
- Set high standards in engineering excellence to deliver the highest possible code quality
- Introduce and enhance CI/CD and DevOps techniques to increase release frequency and ensure product is continuously in a shippable state through partnership with QA and DevOps team members
- Responsible for timely and high-quality pull requests on the team – push early, push often, ensure high coverage, and automated quality gates.
- Ensures operational delivery and consistency from team – through agile, data-driven approach
- Creates technical designs for the team in partnership with architecture and lead developers
- Oversees the creation of and reviews design tasks for user stories
- Owns non-functional backlog; including technical debt, refactoring, component upgrades, deployment and rollback strategy for their product area
- May play an active development role on complex features
- Comprehends performance and usability of product in production to ensure product is continually refined and improved
- Recruit and grow high performing team through
- Ensures development plans are in place for all team members, utilizes the Pluralsight stack for team member and self skills development
- Owns staffing decisions and overall team member performance – budget, coaching, mentoring, disciplinary
- Participates in refinement sessions and represents the development team in same- ensures definition of ready is met with Product Owner.
- Partners with Product Owner, architecture and DevOps to set achievable, capacity-based roadmaps
- Interacts with Product Management to gain insight into adoption and usability of their product areas
- Interacts with customer-facing teams to deepen understanding of customer interactions with our products
- Familiarity and hands-on experience leading agile development teams, experience of agile at scale, and CI/CD best practice
- Expertise in C#/.net technology stack, experience in Microsoft cloud platforms a bonus
- 3+ years in people management
- Excellent communication skills