Software Development Team Lead

The Lume Game Engine Studio is looking for a Software Development Team Lead to lead the software development team, coordinate the entire product development process and ensure the timely delivery of products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Facilitated Continuous Improvement

• Ensures that all team processes and procedures are clearly documented, according to GGL documentation standards.
• Identifies and ensures that the necessary processes and procedures are in place to meet business objectives.
• Effectively communicates and implements processes and procedures in the team and with stakeholders.
• Integrates the team and department processes and procedures effectively with companywide processes and procedures.
  
• Effectively allocates appropriate resources to projects, in conjunction with the Product Manager, to ensure that project deadlines and requirements are met.
• Participates in the recruitment of new staff, when necessary.
• Ensures effective and prompt communication of company issues, policies and procedures.
• Facilitates effective communication within the team and with other teams.
• Facilitates team training and development through the implementation of training and development plans.
• Ensures that the team members are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects.
• Conducts performance reviews of team members, on a regular basis.
• Ensures that the team is aligned with the company strategy and working towards achieving the strategy.
• Monitors performance of team members on an ongoing basis.
• Provides feedback to the SDM, on a regular basis, regarding team performance and project progress.
• Oversees all aspects of the team by facilitating and resolving issues, through effective problem solving and communication skills.

Building Strategic Working Relationships

• Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, emphathizes, involves, discloses, supports).
• Facilitates agreement and uses sound rationale to explain value of actions.
• Places higher priority on team or organizational goals than own goals.
• Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances other's ideas, and contributes own ideas about issues at hand.
• Probes for and provides information to clarify situations.
• Proactively tries to build effective working relationships with other people and resolves conflict actively with peers.
• Develops and uses collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Communicates with third parties to ensure the successful delivery of game artifacts for monthly deliverables

Display Company Values

• Takes independent action by suggesting new ideas or potential solutions to problems.
• Demonstrates passion by taking immediate action when confronted by a problem or made aware of a situation.
• Accepts responsibility for outcomes, whether positive or negative, and is willing to admit mistakes and refocus efforts.
• Takes ownership for quality by dedicating the required time and energy to assignments and making sure no aspect of the work is neglected.
• Remains open to ideas, listens to others and objectively considers others' ideas and opinions even when they may conflict with their own.
• Supports others by treating them with dignity, respect and fairness.
• Operates with integrity, through honesty and keeping of commitments, to demonstrate care

• Demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
• Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines.
• Shares important or relevant information with the team.
• Values and uses individual differences and talents.
• Listens and fully involves others in team decisions and actions.
• Facilitates team goal accomplishment.
• Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of team goals.

Aligning Performance for Success

• Evaluates performance on a quarterly basis.
• Tracks performance against set goals through the Games Global performance management system
• Collaboratively establishes development plans with staff members as required.
• Creates a learning environment by helping to secure resources required to support development initiatives as identified in learning pathways and other sources.
• Collaboratively works with direct reports to identify the behavior's, knowledge and skills required to achieve goals.
• Collaboratively works with direct reports to set meaningful and specific performance goals on a quarterly basis.
• Focuses and guides others in accomplishing work objectives.

Quality Orientation

• Takes action to correct quality problems or ensures that others are aware of and correct quality problems.
• Ensures that software is of a high quality.
• Ensures that software development standards are met.
• Ensures that established procedures and processes are accurately and carefully followed.

• Formal qualification (Diploma/ Degree) 
• Minimum 5 - 8 years software development experience