About the role

.NET Developer supporting product engineering at SQA Consulting. Responsible for technical direction, project team leadership, and training junior resources.

Responsibilities

Define technical direction and operational feasibility, working with the engagement leader and other senior project team members or client resources
Identify problem areas in the client SDLC and define solutions, this includes opportunities for SQA Consulting to increase engagement scope
Able to articulate problems and solutions in non-technical language to stakeholders
Understand interactions and dependencies between software components
Support the set-up of the build environment (CI/CD pipeline) and DevOps / DevSecOps processes
Develop software solutions to client requirements using efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
Demonstrate exemplary behaviour in the use of JIRA / ADO, ensuring tickets are estimated realistically, progressed and status is clear to other team members and stakeholders
Lead the team in writing technical user stories using Gherkin syntax. Help the team to interpret and understand more business-oriented user stories.
Responsible for ensuring the team provide clear documentation supporting code, solutions and processes
Work with the scrum lead / engagement lead in ensuring high quality delivery including following governance, planning, prioritisation, risk management and communications
Act as a team leader in supporting learning and development activities for junior and intermediate level product engineering resources both with technical expertise, Agile ways of working and soft skills

5+ years’ experience of working in development roles, 2+ years’ experience in specialist technologies
Demonstrate knowledge of all areas of SDLC and ALM.
Able to lead scrum / sprint teams using agile ways of working including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives
In-depth knowledge of work item management systems such as JIRA / ADO
Experience of working in cross-functional teams
Able to quickly build professional working relationships with both client and internal SQA Consulting stakeholders
Awareness of the governance and reporting structures required in large organisations, familiarity with SAFe or other scaled programme management frameworks
Able to identify and escalate dependencies, risks and blockers to ensure timely intervention and maintain the critical path to delivery
Experience of mentoring and developing junior and intermediate resources on a professional / soft skills basis as well as in technology skills
Up to date with the latest developments within areas of expertise
Experience of client facing delivery
**Technologies**
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, C#
**Other Requirements**
Entity Framework Core
MS SQL Server / PostgreSQL
Jenkins / Gitlab / Azure DevOps
Automated test (unit/integration/e2e test)
Javascript
Docker
JIRA / ADO
Git
REST/WebAPI