Team Leader

Job Summary

The Team Lead will assist the manager with integrating and coordinating the overall activities of the department to achieve corporate goals and objectives. Accountable for the evaluation, selection, and implementation of project requirements which often include developing new techniques and/or incorporating new technologies.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of developers to development, execution, and support systems and/or services assigned to the team
• Adapt and integrate appropriate technologies to key projects and systems/services to facilitate the attainment of corporate goals and objectives
• Forecast and allocate resources in order to satisfy client demand for services and appropriately staff projects
• Identify and recommend long-term direction for application/infrastructure systems design
• Understand the needs, impacts, drivers, and requirements of the business areas
• Provide input to the divisional planning activities
• Interview and select employees
• Select and supervise contractor staff, when applicable
• Make salary and promotion recommendations to the manager
• Aid Agile teams in carrying out their responsibilities and adhering to the Agile process for projects
• Ensure project management principles are adhered to (e.g. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring/Controlling, and Closing)
• Ensure the established change management process is followed
• Create, communicate and supervise of periodic (short- and long-term) staffing, project plans and status reports, for their assigned team(s)
• Substitute for the manager in her/his absence

What you need

• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Ability to understand, anticipate, and address resource needs in order to meet client demand for services and appropriately staff projects
• Ability to understand business implications for projects and/or problems that affect the corporate goals or service level agreements
• Experience in planning and leading projects
• Ability to coach, develop, and motivate team members
• Ability to manage change
• Ability to act as Problem Manager (ITIL)
• Ability to inspire and promote teamwork
• Ability to build good working relationships
• Excellent leadership, team, and collaboration skills
• Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of infrastructure and architecture alternatives used by BCBSKS
• Detailed knowledge of systems development methodologies
• Understanding of programming languages being used at BCBSKS on vary