Technical Lead / Software Development Team Manager

Job description / Role

About the role

The CTIO department is in charge of decision-making information systems, serving Orange Business different line of businesses such as marketing, pre-sales, sales, production, after-sales services, and customer-service for both France and international domains.

In this context, the O range Reporting and Analytics (ORA) system is the new digital reporting solution for Orange Business customers. This application will be developed in Agile SCRUM mode brings advanced analytical features to go beyond the historical contractual reporting features which used to be provided by the customers' service managers. This will add more value and meeting the customers' expectations regarding what to be reported, the look & feel, accuracy of the report, report availability and reliability.

The Technical lead will work closely with SCRUM Master of the ORA development team as well as the business Analyst responsible for the business requirement alignment with the IT capabilities.

In an Agile context, the technical lead is required to undertake the following responsibilities:
- Act as a leader / manager of the development team
- Oversee high and low level design, implementation, QA, and validation of programming code and products
- Supervision of the team to ensure compliance to performance management targets and customer satisfaction
- Provide hands on support of cases if demand exceeds team(s) resources available.
- Development of team to ensure skills levels match both current and future operational and customer requirements.
- Follow project outlines and timelines and distribute responsibilities to team members
- Ensure milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle
- Responsible to remove the impediments for the development team.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application managers, product owner and delivery manager.

About you

Functional Skills:
- Degree in computer science ( or other relevant area) and/or equivalent relevant experience
- 8+ Years' experience working in an multinational Agile development environment
- Strong knowledge of SaFe theory rules and practices.
- Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand his team needs.
- Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time.
- Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices.
- Leadership skills and experience
- Presentation, coaching and mentoring skills
- Customer experience awareness
- Excellent negotiations skills with the ability to propose solutions / alternatives and argue in addition to the ability to take initiatives.
- Prioritization and time management
- Team work, simplicity, agility, flexibility, adaptability, result driven and autonomous
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, fluent in English. French is a plus

Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in the following skills and technologies :
- Python using Django as a Python framework.
- Java spring boot, is a plus
- Hands on knowledge of Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Impala, Sqoop, Oozie, Hbase, YARN, Zookeeper, Scala, HUE
- Relational Databases (MySQL/ SQL server/ PostgreSQL ).
- No SQL databases (MongoDB/Cassandra).
- Development of RESTful APIs.
- CI/CD Development.
- GIT/GITLAB.
- Linux and shell scripting.
- Implementing data security capabilities such as tokenization, encryption and anonymization

department
Chief Technology Info Office

Orange Business manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business. Our extensive experience and knowledge in global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local support in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.

About the Company

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.