Technical Team Lead - OutSystems Developer

As a Technical Team Lead – OutSystems Developer, 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 enginee…