Team Lead Software Development

Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today, Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide.

Agfa HealthCare is looking for a driven Software Development Team Lead to be part of building the future in Medical Imaging.

As Team Lead for the Enterprise Imaging Pathology development group, you will be responsible for leading the group to deliver high value, performant software solutions. You will provide guidance and direction to a team of developers through the design, implementation and automated/integration testing of our software, using agile software development methodologies. You will develop short and long term plans for the team and support developers in their daily work as well as in their long term career growth.

Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging solution gives medical professionals access to medical imaging information securely from any location, on a variety of web-enabled devices. It is developed in our high tech R&D facility in Waterloo ON where we offer a contemporary office, benefits like floating days off, a great matching RRSP program and an onsite gym.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team that will deliver high quality, innovative software solutions, in collaboration with stakeholders such as architects, developers, product managers, testers and support personnel.
• Support the team by providing direction, clarity and by removing obstacles.
• Supervise daily development tasks in the team ranging from prototyping, design, implementation, automated testing, troubleshooting, and third tier customer support.
• Track, analyze and report on team’s progress.
• Manage performance of team members by setting goals and evaluating performance, supporting growth initiative and career planning.
• Drive continuous development process improvements.
• Build collaborative relationships with other teams and stakeholders within the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline.
• Experience leading people for 3 years or more.
• Experience working with agile development methodologies for 3 years or more.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Excellent understanding of, and experience leading a team through, the full spectrum of the software development life cycle.
• Passion for automated testing.
• Commitment to quality software development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to quickly absorb new concepts and technologies.

Assets

• Object oriented design and development experience.
• Experience developing medical software
• Java, C++, Python
• Agile methodology experience
• Maven, Eclipse

We offer a rewarding career in a field that impacts lives, the opportunity to work with a talented and  committed team of individuals, training and career development programs, and a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you want to be part of this experience, we'll take you there!

Agfa Inc. is committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005 (AODA) and all of its standards in order to create a barrier-free Ontario.  We will provide necessary accommodation during the recruitment and selection process to all applicants. If you require accommodation, please reach out to Human Resources.

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