Development Lead

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Technical Leadership and Development:
Actively write and review code, ensuring alignment with Jira stories and secure coding practices.
Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Assess and assign development tasks and defects to appropriate team members.
Identify gaps in stories and defects, ensuring completeness and clarity.
Maintain master branches, manage gitflow branching strategies, and ensure code is production-ready.
Identify opportunities for code refactoring and drive continuous codebase improvement.
Ensure adequate test coverage and address security risks found in security scans.
Maintain proper code documentation for audit and compliance.
Utilise tools such as Github Copilot to support development efficiency.
Act as the technical SME for front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Vue.js, Ember.js ).
Solve technical problems and provide technical assistance and training to developers.
Estimate and assess change requests and projects.
Apply proven development methodologies (e. g., XP) within the Scrum team.
Support troubleshooting and resolution of production issues, especially high-priority incidents.
Continuously improve personal and team technical skills.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
Implement the platform architect's vision by translating high-level architectural decisions into code.
Escalate architectural issues to platform architects as required.
Provide feedback to consultants on technological architecture and process decisions.
Collaborate with technical leads from other departments for cross-platform integration.
Attend variance calls and respond to queries from other Lines of Business regarding project work.
Share knowledge with and train team members.
Drive agile transformation and continuous feedback for team improvement.
Collaborate closely with QA, UI/UX, BSA, and Editorial groups to remove blockers and ensure smooth inter-team collaboration.
Lead product demos and represent the team in relevant forums.
Work Assignment Accountability:
Attend relevant meetings for assigned work and ensure team members are on track with their assignments.
Monitor project development progress and escalate issues related to work ethic, sprint commitments, or threats to timelines.
Set project development plans based on requirements and ensure delivery from development through to production and warranty.
Raise blockers to the scrum master as needed.
Release Duties:
Lead and support release activities leading up to and during production cutover.
Support release teams during cutover, which may require on-site or on-call participation.
Cross-Functional Relationship:
Collaborates with platform architects, technical leads from other departments, QA, UI/UX, BSA, Editorial, and consultants to ensure alignment and integration of solutions.
Works with stakeholders across Lines of Business to answer project-related queries and support cross-platform initiatives.
Requirements:
7+ years of relevant experience in front-end development.
Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, Angular, and Ember.js .
Strong experience with GitFlow workflow and branch management.
Advanced knowledge of agile software practices and development methodologies (e. g., XP, Scrum).
Experience leading and mentoring development teams.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Ability to assess, estimate, and manage development tasks and projects.
Experience with secure coding practices and addressing security risks.

Experience
7-11 yrs