Technical Lead

Our teams build systems which are recognized as world leaders in delivering strategic business research and analysis. We focus on building rich experiences for our clients through consistent and continuous innovation allowing us to outperform our industry peers. We are well placed in 15 countries with around 1,400 staff and a further 1000 contributing analysts in over 80 countries around the world. Our reports, analysis and forecasts are considered essential reading by business leaders for their cutting-edge content, design and usability. Euromonitor's clients include the world’s major multinationals, banks, consultancies, libraries and business schools. Reporting to the Senior Technical Lead, the Technical Lead’s primary role will be to provide technical insight together with the Senior Technical Lead and Architect in delivering solutions that are scalable and robust. Growing the technical and behavioral skills within the Technical Lead’s team is a core competency which the Technical Lead will achieve through direct line management. In this role, besides working closely with your own team you will need to foster strong relationships with Stakeholders, Product Management, Architects and other managers against a common focus to deliver. A strong understanding of delivering products via DevOps practices and Azure clouding infrastructure will be a required skill set of the desired candidate. This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the position’s scope and function in the company.

Requirements

• Deep understanding and experience of developing end to end scalable and distributed cloud applications.

• Hands-on deep expertise of current Microsoft technologies (e.g. Asp.Net Core) and MS architectural patterns.

• Good knowledge/experience of Serverless, Cloud native, and Azure cloud practices.

• Solid understanding of DevOps practices.

• Expertise in loosely coupled design, Micro-services development, Message queues and containerized applications deployment using technologies like RESTful services, Message Queues, and Docker.

• Experience in working with SQL Databases like SQL Server or NOSQL DBs.

• Experience / Understanding with: o Agile methodologies o BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) o Test Driven Development (TDD) o Domain Driven Design (DDD) o Event Driven Architecture o API Gateways and Service Discovery o Elastic Search implementations

• Experience with latest JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue etc.

• Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get involved to ensure the work gets completed to schedule

• Design and develop high-performance, high-volume and high availability applications using proven Microsoft and open source frameworks and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design and adopt an API first approach to enable Euromonitor client adoption and broader use within the Euromonitor applications landscape.

• Work closely with product management and technical leaders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve required product features as well as monitoring technical progress against all delivery plans while, safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.

• Contribute to high level system documentation such as Context, Database Entity and Infrastructure diagrams.

• Conduct independent research making recommendations on technical direction.

• Ensure the following and adherence to Agile Engineering practices.

• Contribute to the integration of building quality through Continuous Integration and Deployment processes.

• Test-Driven Development (TDD) mindset and orientation of 100% test automation.

• Creating and maintaining automated deployments and managing Azure Cloud infrastructure artefacts including the monitoring thereof.

• Provide technical guidance/mentorship to your team members by pairing up with them, doing design review, writing code, doing code review, creating automation tests, making use of architectural patterns etc.

Benefits

Our values

·       We act with integrity

·       We are curious about the world

·       We are stronger together

·       We seek to empower

·       We find strength in diversity

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office, but we are all dealing with our 15 offices worldwide on a daily basis. With 15 offices globally there are regular opportunities for international transfer.

Hardworking but sociable: our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of sports and other groups to be involved with.

Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.

Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.