You will work on our Vue research platform which helps us provide a full service to our wide range of clients.
Lead up of 3 to 6 engineers working in a cross functional agile team alongside a product manager, UX designer and QA.
Deliver the product roadmap.
Manage a team of developers consisting of a range of ability and experience.
Conduct regular 121’s, setting objective and assisting with tailored development plans.
Mentor, support, and encourage our developers.
Full stack development.
Championing the best practice of Scrum at Savanta.
Continuously improving the team’s processes for iterative development.
Delivering a great user experience in the products you build.
Finding ways to build fast, scalable, flexible systems without blowing the budget.
Interacting directly with customers, understanding their needs, and generalising them.
Working with staff engineers and others to define technical direction in a sequence of smaller, valuable chunks.

Requirements

Experience leading agile rapid release iterations.
Extensive experience specifically with C# and .NET, or experience in closely related languages (Java, Python, Scala) including modern functional idioms.
A willingness to learn – new technologies, our business and platform, and ways of working – is an absolute must.
Full product delivery mindset focused on a tested user experience.
Encourages a test first approach as part of stories aiming for high automated coverage.
Runs meetings such as project kick-offs, stakeholder check-ins, and retrospectives.
Comfortable with some ambiguity and shifting priorities in your work environment, and comfortable with managed change.
Confident in using spikes to de-risk work as well as guiding the team in iterating towards a long-term scalable architecture.
Strong RDBMS experience and who knows at least one dialect of SQL well: e.g. you might have spent a lot of time with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
Experience of cloud based data warehousing such as Snowflake or DataBricks
Experience configuring Azure services (or AWS!)
Experience/interest of informal leadership or formal management experience.
Experience working with across team boundaries with stakeholders.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#.NETJavaPythonScalaRDBMSSQLPostgreSQLMySQLOracle

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationteam managementagile methodologyproblem-solvingadaptabilityuser experience focuscollaborationstakeholder engagement