Team Leader

The DevOps Team Lead in Corporate Information Management Systems team is responsible for leading a team that will drive the cloud solutions design, development, and maintenance for ABS Freedom, including best practices for scalability. This role is responsible for the automation of software development and deployment lifecycle to deliver speed to market, efficiency, and quality, resulting in higher value to customers.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the technical vision for Freedom web application using Microsoft Azure stack and other relevant technology.
• Assign work and guide a team of product developers who are working on several client projects simultaneously.
• Develop, test, and debug new modules and enhancements for ABS Freedom.
• Contribute to an agile project team to help understand and document client requirements, estimate work, develop new solutions, and enhance existing solutions.
• Actively conduct code reviews and facilitate peer code reviews to enhance quality.
• Work closely with the team to create/maintain an automated CI/CD software pipeline.
• Mentor product developers to grow their technical skills.
• Build and maintain end-to-end deployment automation, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure management, as well as other internal tools to streamline the development process and enhance productivity.
• Promote and collaborate on development and coding best practices.
• Research new technologies and create software architecture strategies to meet defined business objectives, including but not limited to minimizing cloud infrastructure cost.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required. 
• Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong experience developing, managing, and automating deployments for complex web applications deployed to Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
• In-depth understanding of software development process and workflows.
• Strong experience monitoring cloud-based applications for errors and performance.
• Strong experience with software design, ETL techniques, writing complex stored procedures, query optimization, data synchronization, code refactoring, DevOps, CI/CD, continuous testing, and version control.
• Ability to work in a team environment and have strong coordination, organization, and communication skills.
• Ability to define, design, and implement an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system.
• Ability to develop a working knowledge of ABS Rules, Guides, statutory regulations, and related instructions, as well as the ABS Employee Safety Policy. 

Reporting Relationships:

Reports directly to the Director, Manager, or Executive role.