Technical Team Lead
Locations: Germany
Requirements: Rights to work, German language (professional/ intermediate minimum) 
Salary band : €60,000.00 -> €70,000.00 (depending on experience)

The role

We are looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our talented engineering team. A TTL at Inviqa takes overall responsibility for the technical output of a project. They help architect the solution, make key technical decisions and look after the wellbeing and growth of their engineering team.

Over time at Inviqa you can experience a variety of projects from Drupal deployments, to Magento shop builds and bespoke microservice architectures. We try to match projects to our engineers skill-sets but equally we like to give you the chance to take on new domains.

At Inviqa we pride ourselves on delivering solutions to complex client challenges and our TTLs embody that expertise to our clients.

How you will spend your time

You join projects at the start, ideally in a project discovery to understand the domain, build trust with the client, help define and approach and produce estimates for delivery.

Once into delivery mode you will set up the project and onboard the team that you helped pick for the project. You’ll guide them on work to be done and help manage their throughput. We also encourage our TTLs to take on line management of other engineers.

You will lead and join ceremonies including stand-ups, weekly checkpoints, retrospectives, and client steering.

In addition to all of this you will be doing some coding! You’ll balance your time between real hands-on coding, and pairing with the other members of your team, as a mentor and to help guide the direction of the project. 50% of your billable time on coding is common.

Inviqa employees work across the UK and mainland Europe. We support both office and remote working. In such an environment clear and regular communication is key.

You will also get involved in wider community activities and events such as knowledge sharing sessions, code practices, and community discussions. We also host internal conferences (ICON) and hack days.

In future there may be occasional travel from your chosen office for client meetings, a team catch-up, or to celebrate successes with your remote colleagues.

What we want from you

At Inviqa we pride ourselves on cultivating a positive working environment. As such, we’re looking for people who are:

• Passionate and proactive: you care about doing the best job possible and can make recommendations on our technical approach and how we work together.

• A team player: you love being part of a team and working towards common goals. You are approachable, empathetic towards your peers, and open-minded about their ideas.

• A good communicator: you can communicate clearly in English to your team and clients.

• Multi-tasker: The ability to context-switch, though we will try and minimise this so you can focus on your current tasks.

As a Technical Team Lead you should be able to:

• Setup and manage project repositories, and with the support of our DevOps team, a deployment and CI pipeline.

• Establish and document technical standards for your project based on our engineering guidelines.

• Deploy a website to a hosting environment which you know how to configure. Our TTLs technical abilities stretch beyond writing quality code, you need to be able to generate and maintain the resulting application in a production environment.

• Plan a go-live taking into consideration aspects such as site migration, redirection, downtime, load-testing

Your working style is also important, you will need to:

• Prioritise the unblocking of your team for maximum throughput and high team morale

• Get involved in spikes regularly to work through unknowns and complexities

• Take ownership of your team and the client deliverables

• Form strong and healthy partnerships with project managers and our client success team to communicate progress and concerns clearly and early.

For more about what we expect from our engineers and how we support engineering progression, see Inviqa’s Engineering Progression Framework.

Our technology

At Inviqa we work on a wide variety of exciting client projects; there’s no single stack. However, these are the dominant tools we use and you could get the chance to work with:

Languages: PHP | Javascript | Golang | TypeScript | CSS

Frameworks & Libs: Symfony | Node.js | React | Storybook

Platforms: Magento | Drupal | Spryker | Sylius | BigCommerce | Contentful | Algolia

Testing: Behat | PHPSpec | PHPUnit | Jest | Cypress

CI / CD: Docker | Scrutinizer | Blackfire | Codeship | Prometheus | ArgoCD | Jenkins

Hosting: AWS | DigitalOcean | Platform.sh | Acquia

See our Tech Radar for a more comprehensive list of technologies we are working with.

Although our work varies, we strive to build consistently high-quality products:

• We follow Agile principles through Scrum and Lean Kanban.

• We have Engineering Guidelines for best practices for all work throughout the department.

• We write tests for our code; it’s second-nature.

• We have a constructive peer review process for all work.

• Our DevOps team ensures we have automation throughout the development lifecycle with dynamic environments, automated tests, code quality checks, and performance metrics.
  

Why Inviqa?

Inviqa is part of the Havas CX Network; a Global network launched in October 2020, bringing together the strongest capabilities and expertise across the entire CX ecosystems.Organised under a common structure, governance, methodology and mission, we bring together more than 2,000 CX specialists across 20 countries and combine the power of data, technology, and design to create meaningful experiences and deliver value across the entire customer journey. The network leverages the power of rich insights, user-centric technology, and experience-led design to transform business performance for our clients and partners.

We:

• Offer a diverse and supportive team at Inviqa, the digital experience agency within Havas CX

• Offer flexibility around your working hours and patterns: work in a way that suits you
• Offer a large degree of autonomy and progression along with support to develop your skills through our generous training budgets and the chance to attend/present at relevant conferences
• Provide the opportunity to participate in impactful work for some amazing world- famous brands like Virgin, Radley, Arsenal FC, Aman, CitiBank and many others
• Offer a role within an international network dedicated to delivering meaningful experiences across the entire customer journey
• A generous learning budget and access to Training and development from Havas University
• Pension scheme, access to great offices and collaboration spaces.

Eligibility

You must be eligible to take up full-time permanent employment in the location where you are applying.

Due to the high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted.