Job Description

Function title:

Senior Team Leader

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Department: GRC R&D

Location: Bangalore, India

Main role / Job Objective:

The candidate will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled software developers and quality assurance engineers to successfully deliver software projects/products on-time with the desired quality. You will require to plan, coordinate and lead activities across the full delivery lifecycle. While still being highly technical and hands-on in designing, developing, reviewing and maintaining software, and overall system architecture, as well as mentoring associates and building the team

Main responsibilities and key activities:

• Lead the team to successfully deliver multiple projects releases on time and the with desired quality
• Manage the delivery of multiple projects/products from design through to release
• Provide accurate project estimations, identify resources/competences, develop project plan and deliver to the schedule. Ensure that risks and issues are identified and managed closely
• Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination. Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders - maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle
• Build the team and develop capabilities of the team members
• Break down high-level objectives into specific software development tasks and follow through on their execution
• Design overall system architecture, database schema and user interface. Contribute to technical solutions from design through to code level
• Help with gathering requirements, creating functional specifications, and creating and reviewing user stories and technical specifications
• Create feasibility analysis and provide accurate effort estimates and status updates, and produce high quality deliverables in a timely manner
• Write code that is easy to understand and fits with existing patterns
• Conduct peer code reviews and perform unit and integration testing
• Implement unit testing, integration testing, deployment approach, and maintain programming documentation which include commenting code and user guides
• Analyze, debug and solve complex technical issues and customer escalations
• Communicate and interact effectively with customers, product management, documentation, training, deployment, support and other departments within Esko
• Mentor and coach team members on their technical development
• Stay current on software technology, concepts and tools, as well as related and competing products
• Help with creating, implementing, executing and guarding optimized processes, policies and procedures
• Institutionalize industry standard software engineering processes, practices and methodologies
• Aid in recruitment, assimilating necessary technical knowledge and building team to meet organizational goals
• Conduct performance reviews, provide timely and frequent feedback, and set objectives for team members

Qualifications and professional knowledge:

• Engineering degree in Computer Science
• 14+ years of relevant work experience in Software Development
• 4+ years of proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of software development projects
• Team leading ability, shown by having led a team to work co-operatively with others, continually reviewing objectives and priorities, and accepting collective responsibility. Experience should include direct personnel management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to understand advanced technical documentation
• Strong object-oriented programming skills with Java
• Hands on experience in designing and developing web applications with J2EE
• Strong knowledge of database design and efficient SQL statements
• Experience developing user interfaces with TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS
• Proficiency with agile software development tools including JIRA
• Experience in both architecture and implementation-level software design
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, APIs and tools
• Ability to analyse customer requirements and define these as a formal specification for software development
• Result oriented with strong self-management skills
• Good analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new technologies
• Strategic thinking, demonstrated by an ability to maintain a broad overview of both technical and business challenges in order to achieve long term goals whilst realising short term objectives
• Experience in people management, possessing influencing skills, ability to gain agreement or acceptance through influence, persuasion or negotiation

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.

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