What will this person do
- Build, mentor, and manage a team of software architects and engineers.
- Help define project scope and own deliveries.
- Be a technical subject matter expert and represent the full internal and external capabilities of the products.
- Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods to execute product roadmaps.
- Identify any product/functionality gaps, collaborate internal technology teams to define the necessary development for solutions.
- Drive integration efforts and lead critical work streams of strategic initiatives sponsored by senior executives.
- Drive engineering excellency through CI/CD.
- Pro-active response in identifying and troubleshooting integration or technical issues.
- Reduce the feedback loop through proactive planning and collaboration with Product Management, Service Delivery, and IT.
- Execute strategy in partnership with company leadership and a broad set of stakeholders across various functions.
- Ensure compliance with industry and legal regulations and best practices and adherence to company processes and procedures.
- Create a collaborative culture with unconditional responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
- Provide vision, leadership, direction and coaching to ensure continuous and successful employee development.
- Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
- Attract, retain, and grow top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members.
Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you have the following:
- Strong technical leadership, leading by example, exhibiting patience and determination.
- Ability to create structure and drive progress in an ambiguous environment.
- Ability to see the big picture and prioritize business goals.
- Executive presence, strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to seek consensus.
- Ability to rapidly come up to speed on new teams and services to make decisive organizational and technical impact.
- Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Ability to motivate others, drive collaboration, forge alignment & resolve conflict between diverse stakeholders groups.
- Passion for understanding and fulfilling internal or external customer needs; problem-solver mindset.
- Ability to manage change and ambiguity with an action-orientation/drive must thrive in a dynamic environment.
- High energy, strong work ethic, disciplined execution skills and work efficiently under pressure.
- Ability to influence senior leaders.
- Expertise in designing for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deliver new strategy/initiatives/capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; Advanced Degree preferred.
- 18+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- 8+ years of experience in engineering management preferably managing multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.
- 5+ years leading teams building applications in cloud native technology.
- Experience with C#, or Java
- Exposure to Kubernetes and containerization.
- Exposure to cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products.
- Strong experience implementing and managing SCRUM in an environment undergoing rapid change.
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience interacting with other departments, managers, and executives.
- Demonstrated experience implementing CI/CD, system testing, test automation.
