Squad Lead
Integrant, Egypt

Our Squad Leader/Service Delivery Manager is responsible for teams of 15-20 developers/testers and 5-7 technical project managers. They ensure all projects are delivered to the highest standards with outstanding customer service. A Squad Leader also ensures all team members are productive, achieving set goals and advancing technically while building on their communication skills.

Our Squad Leaders believe in servant-leadership. They empower their team, encourage growth and embrace failure. They lead by example; understand strength comes in unity and leadership begins in the trenches.

Responsibilities:

• Create and manager plans to mitigate risks for all projects in your Squad.
• Manage resource allocations and priorities effectively.
• Mentors team members technically and professionally by offering constructive feedback.
• Hire, develop and train employee, coach team members for optimal performance.
• Provide team members regular performance feedback. Takes appropriate corrective action as needed to promote optimal employee performance.
• Keeps up-to-date with emerging IT trends and technologies and the industry’s best practices.
• Oversee all projects in your Squad to ensure Integrant’s brand promise: deliver the best quality with the best service.
• Work with your peers on building effective processes to achieve KPI’s standards, best practices for project management and best methods to mentor and coach employees.
• Work with account management, HR and sales and marketing departments to understand our current and future needs / requirements.
• Provide regular reports to the CEO and other departments on your Squad’s achievements, challenges and recommended solutions.

Requirements

• For consideration, candidates will need a Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field (or equivalent combination of education and job related experience) along with at least seven plus years’ job related experience in software development and delivering high quality enterprise applications.
• Additionally, candidates will need a minimum of three plus years’ job related experience managing and mentoring software professionals.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience in the ability to mentor and develop teams.
• Software architecture and design skills to guide the development of solutions that are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• In depth knowledge of industry standard best practices, development lifecycle processes and methodologies. Experience using agile methodology is a plus.
• Thorough understanding of quality management.
• Experienced in the use of metrics to drive decision making and process change.
• Skills in manual and automated unit testing of data-driven back-end applications with high transaction throughput.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, high productivity environment.
• Action-oriented, decisive approach to work required, with the willingness to take a hands-on role to ensure deliverables are met on time.
• Proven experience and expertise in delivering high quality enterprise applications.

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