Lead UI Developer – O2 Vacancies Colchester

Overview

Position Title: Lead UI Developer

Company: O2 (Telefónica UK)

Location: Colchester, UK

Job Description

Reporting to B2B Software Development Manager the Lead Developer will be responsible for day-to-day leadership of one or more scrum teams who develop, configure, and maintain VMO2 B2B platforms, including single page web applications and their integration with other business platforms. Working closely product owners, designers, and architects to clarify requirements and advise on design and direction of new software products and features

Responsibilities:

• Support scrum masters to coordinate and facilitate daily stand-up and other scrum meetings to supervise project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing
• Lead and participate in the development, configuration, and maintenance of VMO2 B2B platforms within the Digital domain, and their integration with other business platforms to ensure the overall success of the department.
• Ensure that platform development is implemented in a secure, coherent, and consistent manner and that planned platform developments are compatible with the organisation’s existing platforms, infrastructure, and transformation goals.
• Lead the development team for estimation, clarifying requirements, contribution to design & direction of products and release planning. Represent the development team at all Agile ceremonies.
• Be first point of contact within the development team for any defects found, ensuring swift resolution including out of hours incident and deployment support.
• Ensure that all work follows approved methods and standards and conforms to agreed quality, is maintained under version control and configuration management, including conducting code review, automated unit & integration testing, and user documentation
• Work on improvements in development approach and toolset including static code analysis tools, continuous delivery pipeline, testing frameworks and infrastructure scripts. Lead the development of methods and standards.

Requirements:

• Recognised expertise in the technical specialism, the technology involved, current developments, the most commonly available products, and the application of the specialism within a technical or business environment
• Demonstrable experience in applying and extending standard methodology techniques such as OO, design patterns and principles
• Detailed knowledge of Angular, including NGRX and NX, and any NodeJS framework.
• Expertise with application lifecycle management CI/CD DevOps tools and practices. Eg Jira, Gitlab
• Demonstrable ability to effectively connect with all levels to ensure mutual and shared understanding, including ability to translate sophisticated technical issues into business language and to handle stakeholder expectations
• Experience in delivering sophisticated technology transformation programmes using SDLC methods such as Waterfall, SAFe/Agile, XP etc.
• Shown to lead development teams in programs and projects that support major technical platform roll out and/or migration