Hybrid Team Lead Software Development, AI

at infodas

• Job title: Team Lead Software Development, AI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cologne, Germany

About the role

• Lead the Software Development & AI team at infodas, ensuring technical excellence and fostering collaboration. Focus on establishing standards and guiding projects while supporting continuous team development.

Responsibilities

• You lead and develop the cross-functional “Software Development & AI” team technically, disciplinarily and organizationally, with a clear focus on technical excellence.
• You shape the area by defining and establishing shared development standards, methods and best practices.
• You contribute content-wise: review concepts and architectures, provide technical guardrails and support your team on complex issues.
• You promote professional exchange between software development and data science, create space for joint learning and contribute to the continuous development of the team.
• You structure ideation, implementation and quality assurance in close collaboration with our consultants and clients.
• You are responsible for resource planning, career development and sustainable skills building within the team.

Requirements

• You have a degree in computer science or a comparable technical qualification.
• You have several years of professional experience in software development or in the field of artificial intelligence — ideally with interfaces between both areas.
• You also have experience leading technical teams, preferably in growing or newly established structures.
• You are proficient in core principles of software development, from Clean Code and architectural patterns (e.g. microservices, monoliths, event-driven architecture, domain-driven architecture, RESTful APIs…) to testing strategies and automation techniques.
• Ideally, you have experience with both traditional and agile development methodologies and can successfully combine both approaches.
• You have a good sense for people leadership, are pragmatic and bring the right level of structure.
• You can set priorities, adopt different perspectives and make clear decisions.
• Fluent German and good English skills are a matter of course for you.

Benefits

• A competitive salary including variable components
• Autonomous working-time arrangements
• Home office / remote work
• Additional days off on bridge days and between Christmas and New Year
• Increased annual leave entitlement by one day after 5 and 10 years of employment, respectively
• Christmas bonus
• Employer-funded pension plan
• Contributions to capital-forming benefits (vermogenswirksame Leistungen)
• All locations with good transport connections
• Company bike program “infodas on bike” with a monthly employer subsidy
• Employee discounts
• Good coffee, water, tea, soft drinks and a fruit basket available free of charge
• And much more…