Supervisory Team Lead, Software Engineering
Description
Tyler Technologies is looking to hire for a Supervisory Team Lead to manage one of our software engineering teams in Troy, MI. The Supervisory Team Lead is a member of a team that works on development projects. That team as a whole is responsible for reviewing, designing, implementing, and testing each project they work on. As an experienced and senior member of the team, Supervisory Team Lead is responsible for being a technical leader and a mentor on the team which involves making design decisions, working on difficult projects, and training and guiding the less experienced engineers on their team. Consequences of error carry a high risk to the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Provide high-level analysis and design to address and create well-integrated application systems.
- Develop new application solutions and enhance existing solutions by coding system features according to system designs.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and modern development practices (CI/CD, Code Review, Quality Assurance).
- Provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff to ensure bugs to existing applications are fixed and/or to clear up operational deficiencies in both previously released software and software slated for future release.
- Assure program, module and system integrity through thorough testing and adherence to company standards and procedures.
- Assist in leading phases of the software development life cycle, including research, design, analysis, requirements, implementation, test automation, and maintenance.
- Utilize new technologies and tools to modify products and provide integration with applications developed internally and externally.
- Prepare and modify program and system documentation.
- Provide guidance to less experienced team members to ensure knowledge transfer and training are successfully meeting department goals.
- Evaluating the performance and assistance with performance improvement.
- Focused on team performance as well as collaboration with team members and individual career development. Support the team and care for the team to grow them professionally and personally
- Achieve departmental goals and timelines along with performing other duties as assigned.
- The Supervisory Team Lead must be able to:
- Demonstrate the willingness to take any project; may successfully implement it with little or no help from more senior resources.
- Demonstrate a high degree of skill, efficiency and be a leader to less experienced development staff.
- Develop programs that are complex in nature, adhering to established departmental standards.
- Learn and implement new technologies and architectures within a reasonably quick timeframe while producing and testing high quality software.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of software development practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and work experience.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of required programming languages.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the technical/business environment.
- Effectively partner, communicate, and negotiate with business analyst, development and support groups in order to gather and communicate business requirements.
- Work on individual programs that are part of a much larger application.
- Adapt to changing products and technologies.
- Be consistent and reliable when it comes to delivering the results from dev team.
- Fix bugs in existing, often unfamiliar programs, under considerable time constraints.
- Manage and prioritize often conflicting tasks and interruptions so as to minimize their impact on the current deadlines and workload.
- Bring new ideas and forward thinking to the team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Typically eight or more years of software development experience with database technology.
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge of software development practices, computer science theory, and understanding of relevant technologies.
- Desired Technologies:
- .Net / C# (or similar high level language)
- SQL Server 2000/2005
- VB Script
- XML/XSD/XSLT
- Visual Basic 6
or
- Relevant related technologies
- Experience writing and testing complex code to meet strict deadlines.
- Demonstrated understanding of product architecture and all underlying technologies.
- Demonstrated advanced understanding of development process.
- Demonstrated proficiency with data modeling tools, web services and/or service oriented architecture.
- Experience working well both independently and within a team environment.
- Experience providing guidance and direction to less experienced staff.
- Strong negotiation skills with various parties to ensure enhancements to applications are addressed while maintaining/balancing business situations and constrictions.
- Exceptional written, verbal communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders across various departments.
- Well-developed logical thinking and reasoning skills.
- Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced, technical environment.
- Keen attention to detail.