Would you like to join a growing team of professionals who are providing state-of-the-art automation solutions for international customers?

ElisaPolystar is a part of Elisa's international business domain. We started our journey as an internal startup, and now we are becoming an ever-growing global success story. We managed to automate our own network so well that we now offer our automation solution to operators worldwide, to support them with automation in planning,operationsand optimization of radio networks.Automatingfairlycomplexthings, tobefrank.

Our agile team is now scaling further and looking for new talented members to join the crew. We do software development with modern tools, DevOps practices and tech stack.

We are looking for a Team Lead to join our team and help us scale up our Virtual Network Operation Center (Virtual NOC) product. Ideally, we are looking for a person who has alreadyinitial management experienceof software development teams (or strong interest in growing to that direction) and possessthe ability and passion for contributing to the service development hands-on.

About the role:

In short, you'll combine your skills as a hands-on Software Developer and a well-organisedteam lead. As a mentor and team-builder, you're able to motivate and inspire your colleagues – helping them both develop their own skills and drive themodernisationof the technical stack.

On a day-to-day basis, you'll also have the opportunity to:

• Coach, motivate and inspire an Agile service development team of 5-8 people
• Ensure team goals fit our business aims and be pragmatic about the tech you use
• Lead development technology-wise and in addition to writing code you will serve as a bridge between the technology and the business side
• Roll up your sleeves and help your team when needed
• You are also responsible for the further hiring of new employees

In order for you to succeed in the role, we appreciate if you have (or are motivated to learn):

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Proven experience of leading development teams, including coaching and growing team members.
• Confident in collaborating and communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• Able to build a positive team environment in which people feel valued and driven
• Deep understanding of agile theory and practice.
• Excellent technical skills combined with understanding and interest in business.
• Experience on some of the main technologies: Kotlin, Golang, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes
• Experience or Knowledge of various microservices and communication patterns.
• Experience or Knowledge of various levels/types of testing.
• Experience of working with software product development and delivery is appreciated.
• Knowledge of radio network technologies and associated systems is very much appreciated but not by any means required, you will learn the domain!

We are not your ordinary telco corporation. Working in our team is, according to the team members, very much like working in a startup - except you don't have to worry about the financial aspects.

Our team is highly international, and our working language is English. Most of our team is based in Helsinki and some in Tampere, but like the rest of theelisians, we can work flexibly (in Finland) wherever and whenever it suits us best. Elisa is by proof one of the best places to work in Finland, and we can't wait for you to join us!Check out more reasons to join us.

Sounds like your cup of tea? Shoot us an application as soon as possible and we will get in touch with you! For questions or further discussion, don't hesitate to get in touch withVilleatville.ilvonen[at]elisa.fi.

We will perform a legitimate security clearance on the chosen candidate, which in turn requires having been a resident of Finland for a good number of years before the security clearance can be done.