Principal .NET Team Leader

Job Objectives

• Technical Team Leader (SM) manage product and software development teams as a servant leader. Ensure that teams follow Agile practices and scrum framework values, work to increase team efficiency, and provide motivation and guidance for process improvement.

Planning & Monitoring Responsibilities:

• Owns sprint backlog planning, monitoring and follow-up.
• Gathers and prepares release notes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Executes personal development plan for development team assigned.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Perform and review unit testing for team’s submitted tasks.
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced software engineers.
• Proposes and Participates in Deployment Planning.
• Provide management with key feedback and assistance for personnel evaluations and development plans

Operation Excellence Responsibilities:

• Coding for high-risk/high-complexity areas or establishing patterns for other developers to follow
• Collaborating with Product Managers/Architects on establishing requirements and overall design
• Collaborating with management to develop overall project schedules while providing accurate development estimates and identification/mitigation of project risks
• Ensuring quality through code reviews and other tools such as peer programming with other team members
• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Takes corrective actions whenever issues/ risks would affect an iteration delivery.
• Works closely with product owner to ensure readiness of product backlog for scrum team.
• Ultimately responsible for project code quality.
• Helps team members their technical career development
• Works closely with QC team & make sure of their effectiveness & utilization.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team
• Conducts final smoke test for deployed releases.
• Breaks down backlog features into smaller tasks for the team.
• Prepares development/testing environment for the team.
• Owns tasks assignation for team members.
• Owns team efforts estimates
• Performs advanced programming tasks according to iteration plans.
• Implements tasks following functional and non-functional specifications
• Writes well designed, testable and efficient code
• Deliver team tasks on-time with high quality.
• Implements dynamic client side coding with coordination with front end Developer.
• Owns and Participates in the estimation of new features and components.
• Provide and Participate in technical design of new functional requirements.
• Implement complex and risky development tasks.
• Implements shared directives with coordination with front end Developer.
• Conducting Interviews & Exams for Jr., Mid-level & Sr. Developers.
• Performs Configuration Management in the absence of CM.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in  computer science, information technology, or a relevant field

Experience

• 5 – 8 years of experience in Software Development  
• Certified scrum master
• Project Management skills.
• Previous experience leading development teams
• Application of agile development processes in a leadership capacity.
• Proven experience with Microsoft .NET technologies including, ASP.NET, MVC, Entity Framework.
• Proven Skills with C#,EF, SQL, Angular, Vuejs, HTML-CSS, , Web Services, etc.
• Ability to complete all phases of software development life cycle including analysis, design, functionality, testing and support.
• Ability to manage large scale web/database application.
• Working knowledge of using a latest development tools and techniques.
• Must have good problem solving and analysis skills.
• Team-player with strong communication & collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions

Technical Skills

• Excellent OOP Concepts & Principles.
• Excellent Web development Concepts & Principles.
• Excellent SQL & Database Knowledge
• Advanced Client Side Development.
• HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, & AJAX.
• Advanced AngularJS experience.
• Strong Experience in Web APIs and OData.
• Agile Development Approaches.
• Write Complex queries handle ERDs.
• Database Design / Normalization Skills.
• Unit Testing Techniques.
• High Code Debugging Skills.
• Test Driven Development Principles / Techniques.
• Excellent technical research skills.
• Multi-threading & Parallelization.
• Advanced Web Development Knowledge.
• Low Bugs Rate.
• UML modeling concepts.
• Deep understanding of design patterns.
• Deep understanding of SOA Principles and Models.
• Excellent performance tuning skills.
• Excellent Design & Architecture Concepts.
• Design Review Skills.
• Security Review Skills.
• Development Best Practices.
• Excellent Code Review Skills.
• Excellent Code merging and resolving code conflicts.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Advanced Threading.
• Agile /Scrum Coaching.
• Different estimation techniques.
• Deep knowledge in best practices in any used technology.

.NET Technical Skills:

• Microsoft .NET Framework (4.5 & Core).
• C# Programming Language.
• ORM, LINQ, EF, and T-SQL Language.
• Visual Studio (IDE).
• TFS.
• Reporting Service.
• Unit Testing.
• Stored Procedures / Triggers / Functions / Views.
• .NET Security Guidelines and Technologies.
• SQL Session State Management.
• Continuous integration & Daily Builds.
• ASYNC Programing.
• Strong Experience in Dependency Injection frameworks.

Certificates:

• Agile PMP
• Certified Scrum