Job responsibilities
- Manage engineering teams and be responsible for the technology delivery of the product priorities. A strong technical focus on "building the right thing in the right way" to enable high quality solutions that meet customers' needs
- Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical design that an engineering team can implement under your guidance
- Champion engineering practices; Improve the effectiveness of the Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring and resolution of impediments
- Partner with leadership team for driving NFR, Modernization initiatives and controls
- Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience in software engineering and development. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
- Extensive practical cloud native experience; AWS patterns and services for big data processing, stream processing, application serving
- Demonstrated ability to engineer for high availability, high resiliency, low latency and scale
- Expertise with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
- Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka and Spark
- Experience in Agile development and good understanding of SDLC methodologies/guidelines
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level
- Flink (preferred)