Software Discipline Lead
As a force multiplier in the RKVST engineering team this Software Discipline Lead will encourage best practice and professional development for our world class software engineer team. You will guide them through coaching and mentoring to continuously improve software delivery quality and efficiency and to help team members to grow in their careers.
Key Responsibilities
- Build relationships through regular one-to-one discussions
- Lead hiring activities for Software Engineers
- Encourage continuous development and employee growth
- Software team line management
Skills
The Software Discipline Lead will possess many of these essential skills, and a desire to learn others:
- Knowledge of best practices for agile software development
- Structured approach to professional development
- Coaching and mentoring
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Nice To Have
- Experience of working with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Experience of being part of a team delivering a SaaS product
Required Experience
- 5 years + hands on software development
- Additionally 2 years + managing, mentoring, and leading software engineering teams
- Track record of enhancing software engineering teams in an Agile development process
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline
Desired Attributes
- Growth mindset – Valuing and enabling continuous development in yourself and others
- Teamwork – Engaged with the business, communicates openly, shares information and knowledge, networks internally and externally, persuades rather than pushes, involves and respects colleagues
- Creative – Connects the dots with a goal of building customer value
- Responsive – Always reacts quickly and with a sense of urgency in a timely and flexible fashion