Technical Lead

Nu Creatives is a strategic HR Partner offering recruitment, consulting and coaching services. We have a strong digital backbone, but take on missions in most industries.

On the behalf of our client, we are now looking for a Technical Lead to join their team.

Our client is a full service agency that helps global and international brands achieve their online ambitions. They are located in modern premises in central Gothenburg.

Abstract

As Tech Lead you are the primary resource and expert with regards to technical frameworks, online platforms and tools, both desktop and mobile. You are expected to use your technical development skills to educate, enlighten and guide clients and developers ? both in-house and external ? in all matters technical, as well as to oversee and also hands-on implement decided solutions based on recommended platforms and tools, thereby supporting in creating successful online presences.

Expectations

You are expected to lead the company and advice clients in all matters technical, based on a clearly defined strategy and online presence roadmap. Essentially you need to be a team player that is also capable of operating as a one-stop shop implementing a solution from scratch.

You are expected to be able to act as ?mentor? for clients? own software developers as well as for members on the development team. As a mentor you show the developers better ways of doing things and help them improve their skills, as well as act as example by being the person who most closely follows the principles and practices the company has committed to.

You are expected to ensure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of a project where you are responsible for the deliverables. This includes being able to ensure quality in requirement specifications, tool recommendations, integrations, consequences (internal and/or external resources), development process suggestion, implementation/execution and documentation.

In this respect an important skill is to be able to serve as an interface between the programmers and management of the client, and have supervisorial responsibilities in delegating work and assisting Project Managers in ensuring that software projects come in on time and under budget.

Skills

You need to know your way around the most common technical frameworks, online platforms and tools, and you need to stay on top of the continuous evolvement of these, including but not limited to; -WCMS (EPiServer, SharePoint, Adobe, Drupal, Magento, Typo3, WordPress etc.)
-App development tools & frameworks (Native iOS/Xcode, Android, PhoneGap etc.)
-Video player tools (YouTube, Brightcove, Flowplayer etc.)
-PIM/DAM tools (InRiver, WebDAM etc.)
-Email marketing tools (Apsis, MailChimp etc.)
-Marketing Automation tools (Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot etc.)

You need to be able to think holistically and from the standpoint of the clients? previous and next steps, maximising the outcome and ROI for the client. This includes giving strategic and tactical advice related to matters such as requirement specifications, recommendation of tools, integration of tools, localisation / roll-outs, consequences for editors, organisational and educational/training consequences (internal vs. external resources) etc.