Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Lead Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: United Kingdom

Division: E-Cpmmerce Ticketing Integration

Contract Terms: Permanent, 40 hours per week

THE TEAM

The E-Commerce ticketing integration team architects solutions, sells, and manages global and national corporate sponsorship programs with the world's most recognizable brands. This exciting fast-paced team collaborates with facets of both the Ticketmaster and Live Nation business and engineering ecosystems, including ticketing, payments, membership rewards, and brand promotions. Members of the team are passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed.

THE JOB

We are looking for an exceptional engineer & leader who has experience building highly scalable services, has the ability to lead projects, and collaborate with many teams onsite and offshore. You will have a significant influence on our overall strategy by helping to define and drive system architecture and spearhead the best practices that enable high availability services. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical and highly innovative, and are looking for leadership opportunities, we want to talk to you.
Our job descriptions evolve with our business need and priorities. In addition to the description above, your role may include additional projects and team support as needed.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
• Work with business owners and multiple stakeholders across teams to create technical project plans and launch highly specialized strategic projects.
• Forecast, backlog groom, sprint plan, roadmap plan, estimate, and manage delivery quality using complex delivery guidelines and tools.
• Present complex user research results to stakeholders for understanding gaps and performance issues in the technical web application, business monitoring, metrics monitoring, PCI compliance audits, security compliance audits, and code quality audit participation.
• Monitor the status of identified risks, take corrective actions, and update risk response plans. Track impediment resolution and escalation to closure while maintaining project backlogs and reporting using complex data tools.
• Work with architecture review board to ensure project artifacts are built in compliance with organization approved standards.
• Allocate and maintain resources, along with resourcing managers, to bring new resources into projects based on the requirements as well as identify developmental opportunities for team members.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)
• Proven professional hands-on software development experience with JavaScript.
• People management experience.
• Experience managing a software development team
• A great partner who can sense the pulse of a company by working with product peers, cross functional stakeholders, and executives.
• Experience of high-volume applications/systems experience
• Professional experience with React
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, Master's degree preferred

YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)
• Ability to bridge the gap between disparate systems and technologies
• Strong experience working in a team and as an individual
• Experience leading/mentoring other software engineers; leading design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Exemplary communication skills (both written and oral), with experience producing technical and design documentation of complex processes.
• Ability to troubleshoot, performance tune and understand java memory utilization in code produced.
• Highly, skilled, curious motivated engineer, who wants to be involved in architecting, scaling, securing and driving multiple projects based on client expectations.
• The candidate should want to be involved in leading application and infrastructure development involving design, planning, estimation, documentation, communication, collaboration, mentorship, launch and support.

LIFE AT TICKETMASTER

We are proud to be a part of Live Nation Entertainment, the world's largest live entertainment company.
Our vision at Ticketmaster is to connect people around the world to the live events they love. As the world's largest ticket marketplace and the leading global provider of enterprise tools and services for the live entertainment business, we are uniquely positioned to successfully deliver on that vision.

We do it all with an intense passion for Live and an inspiring and diverse culture driven by accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams. If you're passionate about live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.
Our work is guided by our values:

Reliability - We understand that fans and clients rely on us to power their live event experiences, and we rely on each other to make it happen.

Teamwork - We believe individual achievement pales in comparison to the level of success that can be achieved by a team

Integrity - We are committed to the highest moral and ethical standards on behalf of the countless partners and stakeholders we represent

Belonging - We are committed to building a culture in which all people can be their authentic selves, have an equal voice and opportunities to thrive

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8359m-18-221-187-121-42 in your application.