Technical Lead

About the Role

As a Technical Lead, you will be an enabler in the project team, ensuring the development team productively works towards technical delivery goals. You are responsible for maintaining high functional, non-functional, and code quality. This role requires you to be a force-multiplier, achieving success through leading, coaching, and guiding others.

Responsibilities

Analysis and Design

• Help developers understand problems and assist with problem decomposition.
• Provide ad-hoc consultations and pair-work to remove technical blockers.
• Collaborate with internal and client SMEs to deliver complex data mapping solutions for migrations.
• Specify and direct developers to reuse existing solutions and design code for future reusability.
• Break large build items into sub-items for efficient tracking.
• Actively understand the business domain and contribute to requirements gathering.

Development

• Supervise technical quality through pair-work, ad-hoc reviews, code reviews, and spot-checks.
• Provide continuous feedback to developers.
• Support regression testing by encouraging automated and unit test writing.

SDLC and Process Oversight

• Ensure adherence to SDLC by all developers.
• Ensure CI builds are green or fixed immediately after breaks.
• Allocate developer support for releases and address problems promptly.
• Be responsible for deployment readiness and technical stage gates for production releases.
• Actively raise risks and concerns impacting delivery or causing production issues.

Non-functional Requirements

• Enforce correct usage of coding standards.
• Take responsibility for non-functional requirements (usability, performance, security).

Community and Collaboration

• Implement company-wide initiatives, development practices, and tools.
• Participate in technical lead forums and communities to enhance development.
• Identify weak points in systems and provide solutions.
• Assist the Head of Development with succession planning by delegating tasks.
• Liaise with administrators and analysts to resolve software problems.

Functional Area Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure high productivity and quality on assigned projects.
• Hold responsibility for non-functional requirements.

Requirements

Industry Knowledge

• First-class bachelor's degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.
• Experience working on large-scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change.
• Confident and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment.
• Experience working with different levels of stakeholders.
• Expertise in the FNZ platform, technologies, and delivery methodologies (beneficial).
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic, fast-paced industry.
• Hard-working, innovative, and passionate about creating solutions.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Expert in Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C#, and SQL Server.
• Expert in web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript, and ReactJS.
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, and legacy .NET Framework versions (beneficial).
• Understanding of financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiarity with code analysis or automated testing tools.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP), empowering nearly 30 million people to invest in their future.

FNZ Culture

Our culture, driven by The FNZ Way, inspires, excites, and moves us forward. We aim to create a culture for growth, valuing the strength and diversity of thought in our global team. Our four core values are:

• Customer obsessed for the long-term
• Think big and make an impact
• Act now and own it all the way
• Challenge, commit and win together

Opportunities

• Work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams and experts from day one.
• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing global business leading financial services via cloud computing.
• Work in a flexible and agile way.
• Remuneration, financial rewards, and career advancement are based on individual contribution and business impact.
• Global career opportunities are available at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa, and APAC.