Tech Lead

As the Tech Lead you are responsible for optimizing the developer experience, supporting the team to work as efficiently as possible and take technical impediments up for solving. You are responsible for maintaining the system architecture guidelines, optimize where need and drive knowledge & experience forward in the team.
Product stakeholders will look to you for clarifying technical questions. Overall you are responsible for managing the technical quality of the team deliverables. 

Your key responsibilities

• Continuously improve the development process which helps your team to become more productive
• Provide architectural and design direction and be a technical sparring partner and mentor for the development team to solve software maintenance topics and new developments
• Optimizing hosting & cloud architecture on performance, resilience needs and costing
• Oversee, integrate and optimize the different connected services & applications we are developing and maintaining
• Code quality assurance & PR-process owner
• Deliver and maintain information-, data-& technical architecturedocumentation and support the team in this practice
• Ensure and deliver high product quality 
• Research and suggest new products, services, components and protocols when applicable 
• Consult on the technical landscape at our customers and partners in order to integrate or connect with our applications 
• Support smart automation solutions and initiatives within our organization to be embedded in our tools

ImpactBuying is a dynamic company with a mission to provide our clients with data they can trust, report, and act on. We are a service-oriented, knowledge provider with a secure and collaborative SaaS Suite of applications. Together with a committed team of Supply Chain Analysts, Project Managers, and IT specialists, ImpactBuying ensures its clients know where their products come from, under which conditions they are created, and what the ingredients or components of their products are. We deliver validated data that enable our clients to manage their supply chain risks in real-time and improve issues related to product safety, quality, social compliance, and environmental risks.

Our portfolio ranges from transparency and traceability solutions (supplier portal, producers & trader omni-channel platform – both including product specifications, and blockchain). We support our technology with an experienced international team that help our clients with supplier onboarding, data collection, verification and validation. We also offer consultancy around sustainable supply chains, offering risk analysis, impact assessments, and training for procurement & category management.

ImpactBuying is investing in its SaaS platform successor by redesigning and building a new cloud platform to make sure that our SaaS Suite of apps can scale for the future demand of our clients. IB has several strong in-house agile development and data teams working on our SaaS Suite applications.

You Recognize yourself in our company values

• Trust in yourself and the team 
• You want to make a Positive Impact with the work you do, and for the people around you 
• You have a Can Do Attitude about handling challenges and new things 
• And you know how to Have fun and seek joy in your work

Overall Skills
As Tech Lead you are familiar with most, and specialized in some of the below named topics, principles and technologies we use and envision for our products. You have experience with running production workloads in the cloud with a team with several disciplines to design, build, operate and automate a SaaS product. (The overview below will also give you an idea of our tech stack) 
 
Relevant topics & principles 
VB.NET/C# .NET Framework, C# .NET 8 & microservices, DevOps (GitOps), VM-based hosting  & Azure Cloud, Data management (file & SQL), BI / Data Warehousing, QA & Selenium automation, Burpsuite security testing & Performance testing, ORM: EF, Event-driven architecture, Infrastructure-as-code, Security concepts & patterns, Cloud monitoring & DevOps
 
Relevant technologies 
Azure (DevOps, SQL Server, Functions), ASP.Net Core, Angular, CosmosDB (Graph + MongoDB), EventStoreDb, Kubernetes, Elastic Stack, Grafana / Prometheus, Kafka, ArgoCD (GitOps), Terraform / ARM, Blockchains
 
Other requirements 

• Higher Education (Bs or equivalent)
• Proven work experience in software development
• In-depth understanding of data management (e.g. permissions, recovery, security and monitoring)
• Knowledge of software development and user interface web applications
• Hands on experience with multiple programming languages 
• Certified in TOGAF is a pré
• Experience with Software- and/or Cloud Architecture is a pré 
• Microsoft Development & Azure Certifications are a pré
• Experience in an environment with multiple development teams is a pré 
• Experience in an environment with outsourced development teams is a pré 
• Excellent analytical and organization skills 
• An ability to understand the needs of a Product Owner & the perspective of the teams

Your Profile:

• You are positive, motivated and customer-oriented
• You have strong communication skills 
• You have technical knowhow at software development including the patterns. 
• You used to be or are a full stack developer
• You continuously develop your IT technical skills for cloud agnostic application development
• You are pragmatic while also pushing for continuous improvement 
• You work accurately and structured
• You are analytical and have an eye for detail
• You are able to be flexible in changing plans