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What you'll be doing:

The technical lead is responsible for managing the development, enhancements, and technical support for one or more IT applications for a business area through a team of engineers, analysts, and test specialist to provide a quality technical output to fit the business needs.

Job Responsibilities:

• The role will require the individual to lead a team of 8 – 10 developers, technical business analysts, and test engineers.
• Defining, allocating, reviewing, and ensuring quality of output from the team.
• Provide the technical mentorship and guidance to the engineering team and set the direction for skill development and improvements in the team.
• Provide timely interventions like feedback and performance review goals for the team members.
• Owning and managing the technical design, code repository, and ensuring compliance to engineering team guidelines on the practices and processes as mandated by PPG.
• Being first escalation point of technical support to fast track Production issues with support from engineering team.
• Innovate: Research industry & market trend and refresh internal technology standard

Job Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years’ hands on experience in software development using Enterprise Java Technology stack. At least one year experience in leading a software development team.
• Hands on experience of using Spring Framework and ability to design microservices based applications using Spring framework.
• Hands on experience of working on Cloud – either AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
• Must have good skills in handling database access through applications with experience of SQL queries, SQL databases and/or NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Working level skills in HTML, Java Script frameworks like – Angular or React, JSON Data Models and REST based backends.
• Technical experience to implement, support web and mobile application development, CMS – Drupal or Kentico, Micro-Services and AWS cloud solutions.
• Must have good understanding of architecture patterns like event driven, reactive, or services oriented.
• Must have experience of setting up and using code repositories like GitHub or Gitlab, and a good experience of agile engineering tools like JIRA to setup the Kanban boards and organize a development sprint.
• Must have skills to translate business requirements (functional and non-functional) into a software system design and break up into components using object-oriented principles.
• Must have demonstrated experience of designing the application integration patterns including message oriented, file based, or API based integrations
• Candidates with previous experience of development of big volume transaction retail eCommerce systems will be preferred.
• Strong analytical mindset and able to manage complexity with good problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and people skills, enjoy hosting and presenting in front of team.
• High attention to detail and attentive to risk
• Good command of spoken and written English and Chinese
• Immediate available is highly preferred.