Shelley Greenacre
Team Leader (1)
Job Description:
About our Client
Our client is trusted by organizations globally to protect their critical information, giving them the freedom to securely collaborate and drive business growth. Our unique technology supports a straightforward and ‘adaptive’ data loss prevention solution, avoiding the risk of business interruption and enabling organizations to have 100% visibility of their critical information 100% of the time.
As a global organization headquartered in UK, our client has offices in the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, with an extensive partner network of more than 900 resellers across the globe.
Clearswift Values
Show passion in what we do, drive for innovation in everything we do and continuously collaborate to make a difference
Key Responsibilities
- Growing, developing and motivating the team to achieve its optimal potential
- Conducting performance reviews & setting objectives
- Being a catalyst for change and supporting team members pushing for improvements
- Managing the team members including their personal development
- Ensuring the team commits courageously and then delivers against their customer and stakeholder commitments
- Ensuring that all reporting is accurate and timely
- Making significant and visible technical contribution to the team’s activities
- Proactively pushing for good ideas to become reality
- Managing the day-to-day welfare of team members
- Actively encouraging and supporting cross team collaboration
- Ensuring that team members are following Engineering best practices and procedures
Skills Profile
Knowledge
- Full understanding of the complete software development lifecycle, including the Scrum framework; knowledge and/or experience of working in Atern framework is a bonus
- Knowledge of one or more internet formats and protocols would be advantageous; including SMTP, MIME, HTTP and ICAP.
- A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related subject or equivalent work experience
- Track record of line managing a mixed discipline team of 5 to 10 engineers
- o Hiring, appraisals, personal development plans, reporting
- o Motivating, directing, coaching, supporting, delegating and mentorin Clear and concise communication skills (verbal and written)
• Proven experience of successfully delivering complex commercial software solutions
• Extensive experience of working within an Agile development environment
• Extensive experience of working with OO languages; C++ and/or Java in Tomcat on Linux
• Experience of writing Javascript
• Demonstrable experience of developing software for Linux
• Ability to constructively review other peoples work
• Ability to lead constructive meetings
Personal Characteristics
- You are someone who leads by example and takes ownership
- You are someone who actively earns the respect of others
- You inspire others and bring people together to achieve great courageous things
- You are able to identify and develop talent
- You will want to foster a team environment which is customer-centric, collaborative, innovative, passionate & fun
- You can think strategically and steer the team towards fulfilling the big picture
- You carefully weigh up situations and make decisions appropriately with stakeholder interests in mind
- You are comfortable being a key influencer and working with others to enact change
- Self-motivated with a “can-do” attitude, and a passion for developing high quality, efficient software
- Proactive and enthusiastic quick learner