Python Developer (Lead)

Peaple Talent has partnered with a global digital engineering consultancy who are recruiting a Lead Python Developer based out of their offices in central London. You will be a hands on lead developer who has strong leadership qualities along with excellent stakeholder communication and engagement skills and working strong knowledge of Python, Java and API’s.

Role and responsibilities:

• Hands on team leadership is required to provide oversight and leadership in several Marquee applications
• Investigate and drive support resolution with senior external clients, internal stakeholders and other Marquee engineering teams. Serve as point of escalation for support issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams as needed.
• Manage escalations and incidents – directing the team and updating stakeholders. Able to ‘dive in’ to resolve issues.
• Strong and confident communicator
• Engage with Stakeholders to assess needs and provide monthly reporting
• Ensure teams are following standard processes and monitoring performance.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to junior team members to ensure successful resolution of issues
• Continuously improve processes and systems to increase reliability and reduce risk.
• Influence and suggest improvements on roadmap for enhancing Marquee client experience.

Skills and experience:

• Must have a proved record of team leadership in a support environment.
• Must have working knowledge and experience with Python and Java, debugging API calls working with UIs.
• Must be willing to execute support issues while also building out the function and automating resolution of repeat issues.
• Able to dive in and pick up issues and solve them or to coordinate the response and follow to resolution.
• AWS knowledge is an advantage.
• Confident with being client facing with a clear, empathetic communicator able to consult with clients and stakeholders with confidence up to senior levels.