PHP Development Team Lead

Job Description:

• Using object oriented analysis and design to turn pre-agreed development tasks and requirements into scalable architecture.
• Use-case/story writing for functional requirements
• User story estimating
• Iteration planning
• Documentation of certain key areas of the system
• Coding this architecture to pre-agreed standards.
• Running regular code reviews with junior developers
• Tracking & updating user story status during iterations
• Report on progress in weekly tech-team meeting.
• Facilitate daily scrums
• Manage release process
• Lead maintenance of live release
• Testing the completed code.
• Ensure code test coverage meets agreed levels
• Working with the accessibility and QA consultants to launch new releases and updates to project stakeholders
• Responsible for back end development of all web products
• Manage, maintain and update complex custom code in order to increase maintainability, performance and scalability as well as meet business needs
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions
• Integration of user-facing elements with server side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs, implement enhancements
• Provide QA testing for new code deployments
• Rapidly prototyping software solutions for evaluation and user testing
• Incorporating best practices like test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
• Write “clean”, well-designed code, and fast PHP to a high standard in a timely and scalable way.