Development Team Lead

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Detail information about job Development Team Lead. Terms and conditions vacancy

Top 5 reasons you want this role

1. You'll work collaboratively with leadership, shaping the direction of how we work with clients
2. You’ll lead an authentic and talented team of software developers
3. We pave the way forward with cutting edge technologies
4. You get to stay on the tools
5. Empowerment to drive the team forward

Who are Provoke?
We're exceptionally proud to be a home-grown success story.  17 years ago, we were your classic kiwi start-up that has now evolved into a successful global IT solutions business.  At Provoke, we combine the exceptional talent of our people with the latest technology to drive business change for our customers.  
 
Who are we looking for?
We look for the total package which means we’re after both technical expertise and cultural alignment.  We’re all about having the right attitude and ensuring our people honour our guiding principles that we love our customers, look after each-other and live for tomorrow.
 
Here are the three overarching elements of your role broken down:

People Leadership:

• training and development
• engagement and retention
• reward and recognition
• managing the team’s performance
• attraction and selection

Practice Management

• investigating and adopting new technologies, frameworks and approaches
• defining standards, procedures and templates
• identifying and managing of research activities
• contributing to sales opportunities
• building capability and understanding of practice across the business

Software Development

• technical consulting and solution design
• developing software applications which requires experience in some of O365, SharePoint, Azure including DevOps, .NET, SQL, CSOM/JSOM, JavaScript, REST with bonus points for XSLT, MVC, SQL, ADFS and CSS
• creating technical documentation
• leadership QA

What experience do you need?
You will be a talented development lead craftsman/woman who has spent some time on the vendor side.  Along with your people and highly developed logical and analytical skills, the ability to gain security clearance would be ideal. This means you would ideally be either NZ Citizen or from one of the “five eye” countries or at the very least have been a NZ Resident for a minimum of five years.
 
Provoke takes pride in the fact that our People Managers are hands-on with their teams and positively help drive individual careers forward.  We'll need to see that you have had previously performed this role within a Microsoft software development environment.
 
What's in it for you?

• You’ll spend your days working with talented, zesty, energetic people
• We care about each other and foster a culture of innovation, authenticity and trust.
• We have some neat perks to look after your health and wellbeing, making life just that little bit easier.
• Combine all that with strong ties to our Auckland and Seattle offices and you’ve landed yourself a pretty awesome new role for 2018!

Our website showcases excellent examples of what we do and who we are, so be sure to visit us at www.provokesolutions.com 
 
Provoke Solutions Inc. is proud to be an EEO Employer.