OOP Team Lead

• Line management of an Agile team of Developers and QAs.
• Regular one to ones, career development, performance reviews. This includes training and mentorship of team members.
• Perform the duties of a PM and Scrum Master: Liaise with product management on the internal client side to gather project requirements; ensuring that the team has enough stories to work on each sprint; facilitate scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure that sprint work is carried out in a timely manner; remove impediments so that the team can work without interruptions.
• Gather requirements regarding the infrastructure needs of the team and ensure that the team has the required hardware, software and skills development needed to be able to perform at an optimum level.
• Attend to admin duties relating to the proper functioning of the team.
• Update project tickets and stakeholders
• Work on continuous improvement of the team processes, quality of deliverables and technical standards. This includes enforcing good coding and QA practices.
• Ensure the team is delivering excellent quality solutions, reporting progress and improving delivery if necessary.
• Supervise Software Engineers in scheduling and completing tasks and status reports, assisting with problem escalation.
• Manage resource allocation to scope and estimate user requests by determining their impact and costs.
• Execute technical strategies to increase efficiency and service.
• Interface with other departments to resolve complex or emergent operational problems.

Requirements:

• An empathetic kind leader who balances the need of their Development team with the needs of the business.
• A dependable person who delivers consistent quality and a curious person who learns and improves their professional skills.
• A lateral thinker who can solve problems using creative reasoning and a team collaborator who is able to take part in productive and respectful discussions with their colleagues.
• Proactively seeks out areas of inefficiency within the scope of the role, taking action to make continuous improvements.
• Facilitates meetings well, ensuring that all participants’ thoughts are considered.
• Can communicate clearly to various levels – Developers, Managers and business stakeholders
• Strong Solution Architecture, Quality Control, Delivery and OOP Programming experience 

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Our client is considered to be one of the most prominent and successful and digitally advanced Banks in South Africa. As the continue to disrupt industry with innovative FinTech solutions they grow their business with like-minded, commercially savvy individuals.

Deka Minas is the world''s first subscription based professional services company. Our main lines of business are Human Capital Advisory and Recruitment Services in Sub-Saharan Arica, The Middle East and Southeast Asia.