Development Lead

Primary Role: Oversee the design, development, testing, delivery, and maintenance of IT developments in line with business needs.

Job Description:

1. Oversee IT developments of all modules within the platform.
2. Oversee the troubleshooting & resolution of IT development issues.
3. Oversee tech planning, development, and post-development processes (incl. tech support, quality assurance, and fraud).
4. Supervise the system development life cycle and ensure the quality platform/products/services.
5. Supervise development, optimization, and automation activities to support project implementation and deployments.
6. Provide the team with solution recommendations and estimates for a given project/change.
7. Collaborate with departments (e.g., Business Solutions, Quality Assurance, Business units, and Infrastructure) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.
8. Monitor changes of relevant vendor-provided software, and ensure that relevant updates and upgrades are adopted in a timely and well-planned manner into the client’s stack.
9. Adopt engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields is required.
2. Minimum of five (5) years of experience working with various programming languages (e.g., ASP.net (C#), HTML, JavaScript, JQuery), frameworks, concepts, and design patterns.
3. +5 years’ experience in implementing large digital transformation projects.
4. Experience in supervising all stages of the system development life cycle.
5. Experience with deploying code on the cloud, preferably AWS cloud.
6. Working knowledge of Web Services /APIs, SOAP, and XML technologies.
7. Experience programming in major databases such as Microsoft SQL and MongoDB.
8. Experience in middleware technologies.
9. Proficient working knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git.
10. Strong ability to collaborate with other technical experts, develop solutions and functional design documents to support the development of final solutions, and lead technical teams to consistently meet commitments.
11. Demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions.
12. Strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts.
13. Must have strong communication skills, both oral and written.
14. Experience in QA testing IT developments.

Preferred: Candidate with valid Bahraini driving license. Candidate must be present in Bahrain at the time of application.

Interested candidates can send their CVs to View email address on click.appcast.io .