Technical Lead – Visual C++ & SQL Server

Navtech is a premier IT software and services provider. Our mission is to increase public cloud adoption and build cloud-first solutions that become trendsetting platforms of the future.

We have been recognized as the Best Cloud Service Provider by GoodFirms for delivering quality services and results. We strive to innovate and push technology and service boundaries to provide best-in-class technology solutions to our clients globally.

We are a fast-growing company serving clients across the United States, UK and Europe. You will work with a team of talented developers, quality engineers and product managers who are passionate about building impactful technology solutions.

About the role

You will lead the team taking over a large rights and licensing rules engine that has been inproduction for many years. It is written in Visual C++ on Windows Server, with heavybusiness logic in SQL Server. You will shadow the client's current technical lead, then ownthe architecture, code quality and release decisions for the system.

Responsibilities

• Lead knowledge transfer from the client's engineers and turn it into architecturedocuments, runbooks and code walkthroughs.
• Own technical design, code reviews and production releases for the rules engine.
• Lead a pod of 3 senior C++ developers and 1 Rails developer.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, including performance problems in SQLServer.
• Plan the modernisation of legacy components (including MS Access dependencies)without disrupting live operations.
• Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineering leadership in the US andCyprus.

Must have

• 12+ years in software development, with at least 7 years in C++ on Windows (VisualC++ / MSVC).
• Deep SQL Server experience: complex stored procedures, query tuning, executionplans, indexing. SQL Server 2016/2017 preferred.
• Has led a team that took over and maintained a large existing codebase built by otherpeople over many years.
• Strong debugging skills on Windows: Visual Studio debugger, WinDbg or crash-dumpanalysis.
• Has led teams of 4 or more engineers.

Nice to have

• Rules engines, workflow engines or business rules systems.
• Kafka or other message queues.
• MS Access, VBA or Ruby on Rails.
• Rights management, licensing, royalties or contract systems in media, telecom billingor financial services.