eCommerce Team Leader at Next Retail Ltd (Enderby, United Kingdom)

Summary of Role

The Team Leader will act as first line management to a team of web/mobile developers to ensure assigned projects are delivered to time, cost and quality. The successful candidate will have good leadership skills and a proven track record of delivery in a dynamic and reactive development environment.

The role demands practical experience of developing applications from the ground up (Greenfield solutions).

Responsibilities

Key Activities:

-Work with development teams / business teams to deliver solutions that meet functional / business requirements.
-Work directly with the application development teams in the design and development of web/mobile applications.
-Provide system support in response to business needs within published service levels - respond to and resolve break fixes and execute preventative maintenance solutions.
-Provide first line team support and supervision including regular one-2-one review and team meetings.
-Undertake formal reviews in accordance with Next’s performance review process.
-Take part in evaluations and reviews of programming methods, tools and standards.
-Document all work in accordance with agreed standards.
-Take part in reviews of own work and lead reviews of colleagues' work.
-Monitor and manage performance of the application support activity. Takes full responsibility for its effectiveness. Takes action to remedy deficiencies.
-Ensure integrity, availability and the security of information and systems.
-Contribute to the development of Next’s applications strategy. 
-Ensure the ongoing availability of Next systems solutions working toward improved system availability.
-In consultation with more senior management design and agree appropriate enterprise architecture solutions along with standards, methods and tools whilst ensuring they are applied effectively.
-Provide guidance and assistance to colleagues in any aspect of program design, creation, testing and documentation.
-Provide out of hours support, as agreed within the functional area (e.g. system upgrades; or in support of programme milestones).