Job Vacancy in Egypt:
Lead a team of software developers in the top to bottom mobile application development including user interface design, application design, unit and functional testing, implementation and deployment to clients of ITG’s portfolio of mobile applications.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and team leadership in all areas of mobile application development.
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team while adhering to the company’s overall development strategy as defined by the Development Manager.
- Coach and develop team members on the development of high-quality code and applications.
- Perform regular design and code reviews with development team members to confirm use of best practices and identify opportunities for one-to-one mentoring and development.
- Optimize performance of the agile-development lifecycle by ensuring consistent, successful sprints by working to reduce blocking issues for the team.
- Contribute to meeting project and product development goals on-time and on-budget.
- Actively participate in the definition of both functional and non-functional requirements of a system and define the development strategy, standards and support tools.
- Translate business requirements into an application by implementing the best strategy to ensure design meets performance, usability, reliability, and scalability standards.
- Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed development tasks.
- Prioritize tasks assigned to the development team based on priorities communicated by senior management.
- Ensure the technical team develops detailed documentation for all source code.
- Participate in and manage the release process as instructed by the Development Manager.
- Maintain team’s current technical knowledge to leverage rapidly changing technology through formal and informal team training.
- Accurately estimate the duration of design, development, and testing tasks.
- Build an effective development team by recruiting and retaining talented high-performance developers, and conducting effective performance reviews of team members.
- Contribute to and enforce the technology policies, organization, and processes that produce predictable, efficient development of world-class software.
- Monitor task queues and issue-logs; allocate resources to ensure on-time completion of tasks and resolution of issues / bugs.
Required Skills:
- Solid Hands-on experience in the following tools / environments:
- Mobile development frameworks.
- Mobile application development tools and environments (Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio).
- In-depth experience with application and user interface level using at least one mobile application development language (Java, Objective-C/Cocoa)
- Knowledge & experience in Web Services (XML, JSON, WCF)
- Experience with Asynchronous programming and networking protocols
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Android, iOS and Windows mobile application architecture and design with high level of expertise in at least one platform.
- Expert understanding of Agile Software Development methodologies.
- Positive, proactive and motivated self-starter with ability to balance team and individual responsibilities.
- Expert knowledge and experience with build and release management.
- Must be a high-energy leader able to delegate and mentor effectively, yet get deeply involved with work when required to achieve results or demonstrate effective behavior.
- Experience in quality assurance processes/tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Minimum of 6 years of hands-on mobile development experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience as a technical lead, senior developer or similar role.
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