Position Overview:
The Technical Team Lead (TTL) is responsible for leading a team of software developers, ensuring high-quality software delivery aligned with product and project goals. This role balances technical oversight, team coordination, code quality, and process adherence throughout the software development lifecycle. TTL also acts as a liaison between developers and management, guiding the team technically and functionally.
Key Responsibilities:
Project & Technical Leadership
- Lead the software development team through project lifecycles.
- Participate in technical and architectural discussions and provide implementation-oriented feedback aligned with approved architecture standards.
- Support implementation of approved technologies, frameworks, and technical patterns.
- Estimate development tasks and provide timelines to the Product Manager.
- Oversee the development and testing of features, ensuring alignment with business drivers and product guidelines.
- Utilize approved AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, documentation, troubleshooting, and development efficiency while ensuring generated outputs are technically validated and compliant with internal standards.
Development Oversight & Quality Control
- Review and approve code, scripts, and technical implementations before deployment.
- Enforce feature freeze, branch freeze, and testing deadlines as per sprint cycle policies.
- Perform technical validation and implementation verification before QA handoff to identify and resolve bugs and ensure feature completeness.
- Deliver testing reports and implementation evidence verifying feature readiness.
- Track team KPIs including code quality, test coverage, and bug ratios.
- Monitor hotfix rework rate and ensure critical bugs remain under target thresholds.
- Conduct proactive reviews to prevent high-severity or recurring bugs
Coordination & Communication
- Coordinate with BAs, Project Managers, UI/UX, QA, and services teams to ensure clarity and alignment.
- Communicate development gaps, inconsistencies, and risks early, ensuring updated and actionable user stories.
- Provide release notes and collaborate with QA for release readiness.
- Communicate early and clearly with stakeholders about delays, blockers, or quality risks.
Mentorship & Team Management
- Act as a technical reference, mentor, and trainer to developers.
- Conduct performance appraisals and track team performance metrics.
- Delegate tasks appropriately, resolve conflicts, and ensure motivation and collaboration within the team.
- Ensure task estimation accuracy and maintain 85%+ on-time delivery rate.
- Escalate complex architectural or engineering challenges to Principal Engineers or Solution Architects when needed.
- Guide developers on the effective and responsible use of AI tools in software development activities, including prompting practices, validation approaches, and productivity optimization.
Process & Compliance
- Ensure team implementations align with approved solution designs, architecture standards, and engineering best practices.
- Follow internal staging, daily release policies, and database/front-end request protocols.
- Contribute to the knowledge base and ensure documentation of lessons learned.
- Ensure development adheres to internal guidelines, security, and business requirements.
- Ensure AI-generated code, documentation, and technical outputs are reviewed, validated, secured, and aligned with architecture, security, and business requirements before adoption.
- Maintain awareness of data privacy, security, and confidentiality considerations when using AI-assisted tools and external platforms.
Qualifications:
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
- Minimum of 6 years of software development experience, including at least 1–2 years in a leadership role.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, Claude, or similar platforms is considered a strong advantage.
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in Microsoft .NET Framework (VB.NET or C#).
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, JQuery, XML, Web Services, Web APIs.
- Solid understanding of OOP, SDLC, and architectural patterns.
- Advanced database skills (MS SQL Server or Oracle), including ER diagrams, stored procedures, and performance optimization.
- Experience with TFS and Agile development practices.
- Microsoft certifications are a plus.
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Time management, task estimation, and conflict resolution capabilities.
- Ability to work independently and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
