Role Specification - Technical Team Lead

The Opportunity

Our team of software engineers are critical to some of the world's major capital market institutions.
Building and supporting a range of software solutions that underpins their processes.

We are currently seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to join our software development
team, leading on and delivering and maintaining our enterprise solutions to our financial services
clients, which include a mix of bespoke financial market infrastructure solutions and our software
products.

About You

With at least 10 years’ experience across the SDLC, you’ll be ready to take your career to the next
level with a new challenge.

You will
• Be an experienced people manager and project leader
• Be inquisitive and innovative, thinking creatively to get results, and an excellent problem
solver
• Be a confident self-starter, motivated by success, earning potential and professional
development
• Have a demonstrable, outstanding record of full stack development
• Have some capital markets experience or relevant financial services exposure
• Thrive in a small team, bringing energy, enthusiasm, and commitment
• Be ambitious with a strong drive to succeed

Success in this role will be dependent on your ability to solve complex problems based on
understanding the issues within the domain and applying modern solutions to deliver secure, robust
and resilient solutions. You’ll also need to understand the dynamics of the team and bring colleagues
along on the journey with you.

About XXXX

Our customers’ success is our success.

We help exchanges, banks, brokers and asset managers streamline their back-office processes for
greater efficiency, transparency and security.

Founded in 1996 the business has been delivering Fintech solutions to the financial markets for
nearly 30 years, with key industry brands such as JP Morgan, UBS, ABN Amro and BNP Paribas
counted amongst our clients.

Our key offering, ‘XXXX’, helps customers drive operational resilience and control around their
internal processes and drive reconciliation of their trade data. Our value lies in our ability to
efficiently streamline clients’ time to dependable results, consistently, whilst reducing the risk of
regulatory intervention and penalties. We are trusted partners to our clients and our field is a high
priority for them.
We believe in
• Putting the user at the heart of everything we do
• Simplifying complex processes
• Challenging the status quo and finding better ways to do things
• Aiming high and celebrating our own, and our clients’ successes

Which means we invest time to really understand our market, listen carefully to our customers, seek
highly driven people to join our team and support them to innovate, hone their expertise, and reach
their highest potential.

Our People

We believe your career is a journey and to ensure it continues to head in the right direction, we
invest heavily in our people.

We’re offering a generous salary, but we understand that successful people need more than just a
decent salary, so we’ve done some research to find out what really matters, and we’ve developed a
commitment to our people that matches their commitment to us.

We offer:
• A progressive and forward-thinking culture, where everyone's voice is heard and where
continuous feedback forms part of the normal working day
• Private healthcare for employees and their dependents, including reduced gym
membership, discounts on fitness gadgets, cinema tickets and food.
• Flexible working arrangements – Our office is situated at The Leather Market, London.
We’re a stone’s throw from London Bridge mainline and underground stations and a 5-
minute walk from The Shard. We’ll need you to be in London for a minimum of 3 days per
week. For the other two days each week, you can choose a suitable place to work.
• An annual fun weekend away with colleagues to a European destination fully funded. This
year the team visited Porto, Portugal
• A personal training budget (equivalent to 10% of your annual salary) to help you on your
career journey, whilst benefitting our clients along the way
• Up to 30 days paid holiday, and additional days un-paid holiday for when life throws up
other exciting opportunities
• A sociable and lively team with opportunities for team building and group activities
• Wellbeing days for those occasions when you need to focus on yourself, your health or your
family
• Birthday lunch out with the CEO and colleagues
• Generous pension matching
• Life assurance

Responsibilities
• Leading and managing our team of software engineers; directing tasks, holding regular 1:1
meetings and semi-annual performance conversations, overseeing progress towards
company, team and personal targets. Providing mentoring and technical coaching to less
experienced team members
• Hands-on coding as an integral part of our agile team, focusing on .NET, cloud technologies,
and React.js
 • Ensuring our coding and UX standards and guidelines are followed and reflective of modern
standards
• Contributing to architectural design and product feature development
• Some 3rd Line technical support including some on-call out of hours cover for our
customers’ critical market infrastructure solutions
• Adherence to our company standards, processes and methods including creating technical
documentation
• Helping to meet our infosec, performance, code quality and UX needs.
• Support for Business Development as required (e.g. providing estimates as appropriate)
• Ensuring continued technical excellence

Skills and experience

• 10 years plus experience in full stack development ideally with .NET, .NET Framework, C#,
JavaScript, React, SQL Server, Cloud Services (preferably Azure) & microservices (preferably
Docker and/or Kubernetes)
• A good understanding of CI/CD – Azure DevOps would be a big plus
• Top-notch communication and interpersonal skills, including very good written and spoken
English
• Experience managing software developers and leading on projects
• Strong current technical knowledge evidenced by technical certifications or participation in
open-source projects (aligned to the technologies we use).
• Proven teamwork and collaboration skills, delivering to tight timescales with the agreed level
of function and quality
• Excellent problem-solving skills and debugging ability
• Pragmatism around solutions, demonstrating a reasoned approach
• Thorough understanding of topics like branching strategy, CI/CD and release cycles, Git,
DevOps, etc
• A proven track record of taking ownership of projects and new challenges

Application process

To make the most productive use of your time and ours, we run a multi-step application process

• In the first instance please submit your CV to our recruiter.