Software Engineering Team Lead C#

Job Description
Group Overview
The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role Overview
The Software Engineering Team Leader will provide technical leadership on TP ICAP's flagship Fusion platform on the Platform Team. This includes setting the standards and direction of other Engineers across Fusion teams. They will demonstrate the benefits of approaches to development and delivery either through working as a team member or through group sessions. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline.
The Team leader will be a Principal Engineer that is passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. This role will primarily be hands-on with some management responsibility.
Role Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team in the Fusion Platform Team to deliver Framework Services and for integration into the wider Fusion estate.
• Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer using Microsoft c#.net, React, Typescript and low latency event driven architectures.
• Communicate with stakeholders being the bridge between business and technology.
• Communicate with the wider technology teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
• Communicate with governance streams to ensure adherence to and development of process, quality and architectural design
• Provide leadership across the Platform Engineering team and be accountable to the Head of Software Engineering for governance on team architecture, code quality, standards, tools and technology but foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and excellence.
• Be a servant leader working with the Scrum Master to unblock the team and ensure delivery is unimpeded, velocity is high.
• Be an Agile exponent, responding to change, participating in retrospectives, ensure continuous improvement is taking place.
• Work with 3rd parties to ensure the Agile team has a full complement and is cross-functional. Responsible for hiring within the team.
• Take part in incident management to ensure Production defects are rectified based on their criticality and severity and to a sufficient standard.
• Use technical experience to collaborate with architecture to guide software solutions
• Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate
• Ensure inter-project dependencies and projects risks are understood and managed
• Guide and support team in implementation and adherence to Change Control principles

Experience / Competences
Essential

• Demonstrable and current experience of hands-on Full-Stack Software Engineering leadership primarily with Microsoft c#.net, React, Typescript and low latency event driven architectures. Messaging using AMQP.
• Experience of Application Lifecycle Management Tools and technologies such as Source Code Management; git, DevOps platforms; gitlabs, TeamCity
• Experience of OO design principals such SOLID / DRY / YAGNI to create maintainable, self-documenting and high quality code.
• Experience of Architectural Patterns and practices such as Backend for Frontend, Micro Frontends, Microservices, MediatR
• Experience of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and implementing patterns like CQRS to facilitate polyglot persistence.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising Dev(Sec)Ops to automate and minimise delivery times from Development to Production e.g. utilising CI\CD
• Experience of and understanding of the importance of maintaining code quality using Unit/Integration/e2e testing tools such as N\XUnit, Moq, Jasmine, Cucumber. Utilising Quality Assurance expertise to automate regression.
• Knowledge and use of Cloud Technologies and concepts preferably on AWS or Azure/GCP etc.
• Collaborate on Solution Technical Architecture with Enterprise Technical Architects to follow Enterprise standards. Enjoy and understand new technology and be able to influence technical direction.
• Use of and working with Containerization to aid deployability, testing and loose coupling.
• Agile exponent to speed up delivery, reduce risk and provide maximum value to the end users

Desired

• Knowledge of the Broking \ Trading business domain
• Knowledge or application of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience of GraphQL and subscription based streaming
• Experience of Software engineering using Java

Not The Perfect Fit?
Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us.
Company Statement
We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord