As a Technical Team Lead OutSystems you will provide technical leadership, business domain ownership, and hands-on development support across one or more Agile delivery teams. Within a highly collaborative Agile environment, you will guide developers, Business Analysts, and Quality Assurance professionals in delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality business applications while serving as a trusted technology partner to business stakeholders. This role combines technical strategy, operational leadership, and active development responsibilities within the OutSystems platform.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Lead the day-to-day technical execution and oversight of development activities across assigned Agile teams.
• Architect and guide the implementation of scalable, maintainable, and secure OutSystems-based solutions.
• Champion engineering best practices and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security standards, platform governance, and application lifecycle management.
• Ensure technical solutions align with enterprise architecture, security standards, and platform governance practices.
• Coordinate with other Team Leads for platform operations, on-call support, environment management, and production incident resolution across teams.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of production incidents, coordinating efforts across teams when necessary.
• Monitor delivery metrics, technical debt, platform health, and engineering quality indicators to support sustainable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate technical estimation, sprint planning, and capacity planning in partnership with Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and stakeholders.
• Ensure technical documentation, operational processes, and team knowledge are maintained and accessible.
• Drive delivery predictability by proactively managing team commitments, risks, dependencies, and impediments across assigned Agile teams.

Business Domain Ownership

• Serve as the primary technology representative for assigned business domains, developing a strong understanding of business processes, challenges, and strategic objectives.
• Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders, providing technical consultation and identifying opportunities for process improvements, automation, innovation, and product enhancements.
• Partner with Business Analysts and stakeholders to manage product backlogs, prioritize initiatives, and translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Translate business priorities into technical roadmaps, delivery plans, and actionable development initiatives.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Product Owners, Designers, and Quality Assurance professionals to deliver end-to-end business solutions.

Hands-On Development Support

• Serve as a mentor to developers of varying experience levels through coaching, peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and structured feedback.
• Actively contribute to application development by delivering complex features, integrations, reusable frameworks, code reviews, troubleshooting, and sprint work as needed.
• Foster team growth and engineering excellence through pair programming, collaboration, knowledge sharing, retrospectives, and continuous feedback.
• Participate in sprint work as a contributing developer when additional technical support is needed.
• Support change management and release activities, including deployment verification, implementation planning, and production readiness reviews.

What You Bring (Requirements):

• Proven experience leading technical teams or mentoring developers in a collaborative, Agile/Scrum environment. 
• Advanced expertise in development and architecture design for web or mobile apps (Experience with OutSystems a plus) 
• Strong knowledge of software development principles, including OOP, SOLID, MVC, and design patterns applicable to low-code platforms. 
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive UI design. 
• Experience with integration methodologies (REST, SOAP) and API-first development. 
• Intermediate or advanced SQL and data modeling skills using platforms like SQL Server, Snowflake, or Oracle. 
• Practical understanding of DevOps practices, including feature toggles, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based version control. 
• Hands-on experience using tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Application Insights, Dynatrace, or similar for observability and reliability engineering. 
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills using tools such as OutSystems Service Studio and browser dev tools. 
• Ability to align technical efforts with business objectives and effectively communicate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience making technical tradeoff decisions balancing speed, quality, risk, and maintainability.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with business stakeholders and effectively balance business priorities with technical constraints.

Qualities that Stir Our Souls (and Make You Stand Out):

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, MIS, or equivalent experience. 
• Prior experience managing environments across development, staging, and production. 
• Experience leading multiple concurrent delivery streams or Agile teams.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS. 
• Familiarity with SPA frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Vue.js. 
• Awareness of tools like CoPilot, SonarLint, SonarQube for improving code quality and reducing technical debt. 
• Exposure to .NET and its integration with low-code platforms is a plus. 
• Certifications in OutSystems and/or knowledge of OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC) are a plus. 

Disclaimer: This job offer was originally posted on Linkedin.