Outsystems Tech Lead – SAP FTS Program (Freelance)

Are you a seasoned Outsystems Tech Lead with a passion for guiding a team towards a higher level of Outsystems skills, as well as creating a high-quality solution that both supports the business needs as well as the non-functional requirements? Do you thrive on ensuring best practices and high standards of performance, reliability, and security for applications? And are you looking to contribute to our large-scale OutSystems project in a complex financial environment? If so, this OutSystems Tech Lead role in our SAP FTS Program is the perfect opportunity for you!

This is a freelance assignment.

About the SAP FTS Program

At the start of 2024, we launched a large-scale, multi-year Outsystems project to simplify our IT landscape and deliver the best pension products to our customers. Within the SAP FTS program, we are building a Business Process Management (BPM) application on top of our pension administration in SAP, using agile/scrum methods. With this new application, we aim not only to simplify our IT landscape but also to optimize our processes and customer experience. We work with various expertise and backgrounds to achieve standardization, simplification, and optimization of our core processes. Think of processes around important life events such as retirement, changing jobs, getting married, or cohabiting, but also commercial processes such as quoting and implementing pension contracts.

What you are going to do

As a Tech Lead, you play a leading role in working with the teams to shape this new application. You work closely with developers, analysts, and testers within the teams. Currently we are working in this program with 6 multidisciplinary DevOps teams and 2 Tech Leads; due to the scale of the project and number of teams, we want to strengthen the program with a third Tech Lead.

• You are responsible for the overall quality and future-proofing of the systems, taking non-functional requirements into account. You monitor the application’s architecture, code quality, and integrations with third-party applications, take an active role in determining improvements, realize adjustments, and test your own and others’ code. You align closely with the other Tech Leads and teams to ensure consistent development across the entire application.
• You follow an Agile Scrum approach when designing and developing business applications, and you support feature delivery demos, production deployments, and overall solution rollout procedures.
• You support the product owner and business analysts by converting user demands into technical requirements for the sprint backlog, aligning these with DevOps team members to arrive at the best possible solution. You also support the product owner in splitting the project into stages for low-risk transition and adoption by business units.
• As more business processes from multiple teams go into production, you align with other teams on Ops activities and incident management, defining clear ways of working together.
• You lead by example and coach other engineers in and outside your team to work in OutSystems according to the company’s best practices and ways of working, maintaining application performance, reliability, and security.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, preferably in IT
• At least 5 years of experience as an Outsystems (Tech Lead) developer, including API development and third-party integrations, BDD and BPT
• Experience with coaching, application architecture, non-functional requirements, and working within a complex IT environment
• Work experience in the financial services market, or a drive to quickly gain the knowledge needed to develop our systems and applications
• A good command of written and spoken English, as we are an international organisation

Who you will work with

Our OutSystems multidisciplinary DevOps teams consist of a product owner, multiple OutSystems developers, a business analyst, a tester, and an Agile Release Train Engineer. These are close-knit teams with diverse backgrounds, where we continuously improve our processes together. We regularly organise retrospectives and feedback sessions to keep each other sharp, and we also celebrate our successes. Collaboration is high on the agenda.