Senior Tech Lead

Date: 21 Feb 2025

Location:

Sri lanka, AE

Company: Information Systems Associates - Sri Lanka (ISSL)

Job Purpose

Provides technical expertise across the various streams in the software development domain. Contributes to the architecting, design, development, implementation and ensuring the quality automation standards of ISA software products. Assists in the delivery of software projects and implementation of technologies. Understands industry best practices and adopts the emerging technologies agreed.

Key Result Responsibilities

• Responsible for the delivery of software products and components for ISA; provides technology expertise and supports in the management of technology life cycle. Investigates and analyzes applications architecture, technology stacks, design, development, deployment and automated testing.
• In collaboration with product team, project managers, and IT solutions managers, contributes to translating business needs into technical implementations in line with the architectural principles laid down for ISA products.
• Manages testing and implementation of technical solutions; reviews technical documentation, user guides, training manuals, and system specifications ensuring quality, compliance and completeness.
• Reviews/gives feedback on specifications and information of the architectural design provided by product team.
• Establishes efficient continuous delivery process and production operations process; creates deployment architecture based on open source technology stack for automation. Ensures the User Interfaces used for the product in line with requirements.
• Identifies and implements best practices, new trends, and emerging technologies that bring best value to ISA clients; partners with cross-functional teams to explore ways and means to adopt such technologies.
• Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures in specified area. Ensures compliance of the implementation with the architecture. Assists ISA teams to meet agreed service levels; provides needed status reports to specialists, users, and managers.
• Assists in the identification and assessment of potential risks to technology infrastructure and their impact on the business; anticipates, identifies, and resolves issues relating to client facing architecture and assists in developing mitigation and backup plans.
• Leads and guides other technology experts internally; ensures there is proper, sufficient and continuous knowledge sharing within ISA.
• Cultivates and maintains effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including project managers, product, operations, governance and enterprise development teams.
• Influences thinking and decision-making with respect to technology to the best of ISA.
• Performs any other additional responsibilities as directed by the line manager.

• Minimum 6 years in software development and management out of which at least 2 years in a DevOps Architect/Software Architect role.
• Holistic IT Knowledge of heterogeneous technology environments experienced with different types of end to end technology stacks.
• DevOps principles and stages of CICD process from source code management, to build, deployment and test automation finishing with production deployment.
• Hands-on designing solutions for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS based set-ups, managing vendors and service providers.
• Experienced in core system configuration and systems testing.
• Experienced in networking concepts like Routing, Web Application Firewalls, Load Balancing and VPC in a cloud environment.
• Hands-on production operations and site reliability engineering principles.
• Hands-on technical leadership, technical solution design.
• Capable of analyzing data, identifying pitfalls and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Cost-oriented, possesses effective problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Employs technical and interpersonal skills to execute new initiatives and achieve company objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute and successfully deliver against business strategy and set KPIs.