Ascent Team Lead (.NET) - Mentor, Lead and Achieve

The Role:

Ascent is looking for a highly motivated Team Lead. Being at the helm of a cross-functional team, you will have a pivotal role in the delivery of the project, and will mentor and lead team members to achieve milestones and develop personally. As a Team Lead, you will be working hand in hand with the Product Owner and Agile Coaches, to bring out the full potential of the development team to deliver a high-quality product, as an essential part of Ascent’s vision and success.

Required skills and qualifications:

•  At least 5 years of software development experience in .NET

•  At least 2 years of experience in leading a team of developers

•  Strong leadership skills

•  Excellent knowledge of C# and .NET Framework

•  Strong knowledge of cloud-based solutions, in the Azure Ecosystem

•  Strong analytical and logical thinking abilities

•  Strong problem solving and diagnostic skills

•  Excellent communication skills

•  Experience in source control and collaboration tools like GIT and Azure DevOps

•  Experience in working in an Agile team

• Teamwork – Understand the dynamics of a team and how to be an effective leader


• Can do approach – flexible and able to provide effective solutions


• Communication - conveying information effectively and demonstrating active listening


• Attention to detail - ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership to a team of developers working in a wider agile team.


• Contributes to the architectural and technological choices made during the delivery of the project.


• Guides and mentors members of the team on a day-to-day basis.


• Strives to empower the members of the team to grow and increase the knowledge within the team


• Applying independence and creativity to problem solving across backlog items.


• Manage code reviews (pull requests) ensuring quality code.


• Involved and vocal in the agile ceremonies.


• Identify, review and mitigate technical risk, issues and impediments


• Performs team 1 to 1s


• Remove impediments which could block the development with respect to technology aspects.