Deliver high quality customer-driven software offerings to market that simplify and solve for current customer needs while building for the future
Possess strong technical skills, have a career history of strong hands-on software engineering and development experience, and the tactical and visionary leadership skills to motivate, guide, and earn the respect from a highly talented engineering team
Responsible for initiating and driving the adoption of technology, product and process improvements throughout the software delivery life cycle
Provide technical leadership, career development, and management of performance, objectives, and priorities of all reporting staff - Build a high performing, results-oriented organization
Drive and own the functional and non-functional requirements road map for your team
Develop product expertise and advocate on behalf of the customer
Drive initiatives to improve testing at all levels & deliver automation to ensure robustness and protect our customer
Embrace & implement new ideas that produce outstanding results for our customers
Drive adoption of best practices, tools, systems and metrics across the organization
Lead and grow a high performing engineering team to deliver data capabilities at scale with engineering and operational excellence built in
Create an environment where world class engineers can do the best work of their lives. In this role you will help to bring out the best ideas from the best engineers by empowering them and leading by example
Instill and drive software engineering standards and best practices with the team to maximize engineering excellence and developer productivity
Employ strong business and technical acumen to guide the team (customer obsession, strategic thinking, asking the right questions, sweating the details)
Create shared vision, build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with partners and stakeholders.
Partner with Product Management to understand requirements, prioritize tasks, and incorporate new features into existing products
Responsible for service high availability, incident management and conducting post mortem to learn from incidents
Build a culture of Innovation, technical and operational excellence on the team
Develop business cases for developing new capabilities and conduct resource estimation to justify spend for new capabilities
Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, experience in leading multiple initiatives is strongly desired
4+ years experience as an established technical leader of software engineering teams that have successfully delivered impactful business solutions
Hands on engineering leader who can nurture working with highly motivated and extremely talented engineers to work on high visibility online products
Comfortable working on all tiers of modern applications, from the front-end all the way to the database and strong exposure to Enterprise Java platform, Spring Framework, ReactJS, Amazon Web Services, Kafka, Kubernetes based container deployments, Databases (Aurora PostgreSQL), Splunk, Wavefront, RESTful APIs, GraphQL and CI/CD
Solid software development fundamentals (Data Structures, algorithms, problem solving, OO Design, and system architecture) with specialization on end-to-end software development using modern SaaS / public cloud deployments with a DevOps mindset
Demonstrated experience leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovative solutions, and fostering effective engineering teams
Ability to think and act strategically for all stakeholders. Adept at articulating the product vision and driving the future roadmap with strong business acumen
Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and the entire engineering team on track in a distributed global engineering ecosystem
Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment.
Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience
Someone with strong belief in agile and lean thinking have a passion for developer velocity, engineering and operational excellence
Strong business acumen. Understands the business internal and external landscape and thinks/acts strategically for all stakeholders
Drives strategic technology/engine reuse, technology and architecture health, and development process improvement
Expert communicator and love working with multiple stakeholders for common outcomes with high stakes at company level
AI & ML experience in product offerings/experiences a plus