The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Team Leader – Application Development

The role of the Development Team Leader is to lead the development team in the

enhancement of our wonderful applications development. The person must have the

ability to lead a team of developers who work across open-source technology stacks,

specially Python. They must be able to understand requirements, design documentation and build web applications and reports to satisfy these.

The successful applicant will work with international development and project teams. Experience working in an Agile environment and DevOps methodologies would be preferable.

The Role & Key Responsibilities:

The Development Team Leader will be expected to:

• Develop, implement, and maintain applications

• Create unit tests to support production code using test-driven developmenttechniques

• Collaborate with internal end users to understand and respond to their needs

• Troubleshoot technical issues reported by end users and team members

• Contribute as a team member on medium to large projects

• Identify problems resulting from recurring incidents

• Perform both functional and technical analysis

• Manage and lead the team, ensuring effective collaboration and communication

• Prioritize tasks and manage project timelines efficiently

• Implement and oversee DevOps practices to streamline development anddeployment processes

• Manage the product customization process from the point of requirements having been written and agreed though to implementation and delivery process, relying on and working in close collaboration with the company’s business teams, product management, and other technology teams.

• Project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems.

• Guide project activities and review deliverables.

• Participate in functional and technical working groups and progress meetings.

• Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successfulcompletion of each project.

Skills Required

• A minimum of 5 or more years' experience in the field of IT application Development, in the financial sector.

• A minimum of 2 year management /supervisory experience

• A solid general understanding of IT (e.g. Applications landscape components and business applications) and experience with the support and operation or engineering of IT services

• Experience with ticketing tools like Service Now is an advantage

• Capacity to understand / create scripting (Linux/Solaris, Power shell, …)

• Process design and implementation experience

• Continuous improvement mindset

• Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Fluent communication skills in English

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct souring model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.