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This newly created role involves working for a globally recognised funds management company who due to growth of the business now require a new development lead.
The purpose of this role is to lead, and people manage a team of Application Developers in the local region as well as take on some hands-on application development tasks. The team will be responsible for the design, development, test and deployment of applications.

This role comes with a wide range of responsibilities such as:

• Lead and manage a team of motivated and skilled Application Developers.
• Proactively manage team members with respect to distributing work, supervising progress, skill development, succession planning, and career objectives.
• Provide management to the team to ensure all business needs are fulfilled and individuals are engaged.
• Perform hands-on development tasks following the software development lifecycle.
• Analyses approve and documents system solutions that support specific business opportunities.
• Writes and maintains technical system documentation.
• Analyses feasibility of and resources required for solutions, including analysis of compatibility/overlap with existing systems.
• Creates and maintains development, testing and deployment plans and timetables.
• Ability to design and develop solutions from the ground up from a pre-defined business requirements specification.
• Conducts system testing and corrects any discovered bugs.
• Supports user acceptance testing.
• Undertakes installation of completed software, including full documentation of release procedures.
• Provides technical support for deployed applications.

• Analyses, tests and installs upgrades of externally developed applications.

• Monitors performance of programs after implementation.
• Provides technical consultancy and support to other developers.
• Ability to facilitate and communicate on new technologies, best practise and relevant experiences.

• Responsible for cross-training others to reduce key person risk.
• Create strong relationships with the IT teams in other regions globally taking every opportunity to reduce duplication and promote the global software development lifecycle.
• Takes ownership of application changes adhering to the global change process.

To be considered for this role you will need the following skills and experience:

• Strong Informatica ETL functional and development experience, PowerShell scripting experience.
• Broad knowledge of application development tools, techniques and languages including C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, IIS, SQL Server, Bootstrap, jQuery, Azure DevOps, GIT, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Skills in Microsoft MVC and Entity Framework.
• Previous use of Atlassian Toolset (Confluence/JIRA) would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of any of the following would be advantageous – Oracle, PL-SQL
• Exposure to a variety of project delivery methodologies such as waterfall and Agile is desirable.
• Experience of continuous integration would be advantageous.

Other Competencies

• Knowledge of the funds management environment and systems.
• Experience in managing teams
• Ability to inspire and influence while managing changes.
• Strong initiative and self-motivation
• People-orientated and customer-focused
• Positive, pro-active and flexible ‘can do’ attitude with a willingness to learn
• Team player – recognise and respect the needs and contributions of team members
• Ability to scale processes and work with global stakeholders
• Escalation – ability to judge and prioritise critical incidents and blockers and escalate quickly to resolution in the face of tight timelines
• Motivation and focus to work to tight deadlines and manage time effectively
• Proven prioritisation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multi-task between multiple projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members and management

This roles offers an experienced application team leader a fantastic opportunity to join an extremely well established brand where you get fantastic exposure to a very broad technical stack whilst leading a team of passionate engineers.
To learn more about this role please contact Simon Payne on 9003 4921 or to apply please send your resume in word format to – simon.payne@marsrecruitment.com.au