CDS are looking for a Technical Lead to drive the technology agenda within our established award-winning and growing company. The purpose of the role is to help define and shape the Development function at CDS Digital in-line with the needs of the business and its current objectives.
About You
A great team player with strong leadership skills you will be able to communicate confidently with both internal and external stakeholders. You will lead the Development function to ensure that everything that they do is aligned to industry best practice.
Positive and proactive you will lead and inspire the technical team in both seeking new challenges and solving complex problems. You will need to stay up to date with general technology trends within the industry to help move the team and the business forward.
You will need:
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer: Web Applications (or equivalent).
Content Management System Certification in the current platform(s).
Proven track record in delivery of Enterprise scale web applications.
A minimum of 6 year’s commercial software development experience within the Microsoft technology stack.
.Net Framework 4+, SQL Server 2008+
EPiServer, SiteCore or Umbrac
Has worked with a number of JavaScript frameworks.
jQuery (recent versions)
AngularJS, DoJo, React, KnockoutJS
Professional experience in a senior developer and / or lead developer role
Experience in leading project / product teams to successful delivery of goals with other disciplines within the organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
Develops the working practises of the Development function to ensure they are always aligned with industry best practise.
Manages other roles within the Development function to ensure delivery of defined objectives and is accountable for those objectives being delivered.
Escalates any impediments to the successful delivery of team objectives and barriers or obstacles more generally.
Pro-actively seeks out new challenges within the technical arena.
Executes additional duties and activities as and when requested to do so.
In return we will offer:
Attractive base salary
Exciting career development in a fast-growing company
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Cashback healthcare scheme
The closing date for applications is 20 June 2021.
Apply on company website
Riverside House,
7 Canal Wharf,
Leeds,
LS11 5AS
info@cds.co.uk http://www.cds.co.uk
Type: Full Time
Reference Number: 106578
Some of the required knowledge and experience: Practical hands-on skills with a testing tool appropriate to their test discipline: Visual Studio Test Manager. Selenium. SpecFlow (Cucumber / Gherkin). Visual Studio Performance Profiler. OWASP Testing Tools. Appropriate ISTQB/ISEB qualification. Understanding of SDLC and STLC and how they fit into CI/CD pipeline. Working knowledge of JIRA and Visual Studio Online / Azure DevOps. Knowledge and understanding of core testing tools and approaches.
Key Skills and Experience required: 5+ years experience delivering large, complex projects - Full project lifecycle experience - Agile & Prince2 qualified, with experience of embedding good practice - Management of multiple projects & other project managers.
Essential Skills Line Management Experience. Microsoft Azure Certifications. Strong knowledge of Splunk. Strong knowledge of Windows Server Infrastructure and configuration. Strong knowledge of Web Services, Web Apps/ IIS etc. Strong knowledge of Networking, i.e. routing/ DNS etc. Strong knowledge of Virtualization, Vmware/ HyperV. Strong knowledge of Azure and Aws Cloud technologies. Firewall configuration and troubleshooting. Proactive platform monitoring. Load Balancer Setup and Configuration. Active Directory Setup and configuration. Planning for and executing patching of servers, using tools such as WSUS. Powershell knowledge. Database knowledge.
SOme of the qualities our ideal candidate will have: Previous significant commercial experience from a development or architecture background Expert knowledge of build and deployment pipelines utilising Azure DevOps Experience of leading and developing a software development team ideally within a digital agency environment ensuring that deadlines and project goals are met. Clear experience of working within a structured code environment with formal source and version control and security management. Technical design and solutions architecture. Ability to visualise and build solutions end to end from design through to deployment.
Required skills: Strong knowledge of Azure and Aws Cloud technologies. Strong knowledge of Windows Server Infrastructure and configuration. Strong knowledge of Web Services, Web Apps/ IIS etc. Strong knowledge of Networking, i.e. routing/ DNS etc. Strong knowledge of Virtualization, Vmware/ HyperV. Firewall configuration and troubleshooting. Proactive platform monitoring. Load Balancer Setup and Configuration. Active Directory Setup and configuration. Planning for and executing patching of servers, using tools such as WSUS. Powershell knowledge. Database knowledge.
