Software Engineering Lead (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth) at Relx

Responsibilities

• Coaching and mentoring Agile squads through software development and Agile best principles and practices
• Motivating digital product teams in a cross-functional global environment to deliver innovations to our customers
• Collaborating within Research Technology to exchange lessons-learned and best practice standardization across our organization
• Communicating and presenting a variety of information confidently and clearly to engineers, senior business leaders and stakeholders
• Facilitating time and change management across multiple teams to ensure quality and on-time delivery
• Supporting the development and use of metrics that facilitate continuous improvement within our squads

Requirements

• Have solid expertise gained in a technology environment with knowledge of software development industry best practices
• Strong experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex content to a range of audiences
• Show the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and teams to resolve issues and to support implemented solutions
• Expertise in development languages including but not limited to: Java/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX, and .Net.
• Test-driven development.
• Have solid organization, planning and change management skills
• Be able to identify risk dependencies and support mitigating solutions
• Be able to foster a learning environment that encourages people to learn from experiences