Job responsibilities
- Define, communicate and rationalize design standards and patterns for stakeholders to adopt the firm wide design system, working with Lead Architects, Engineering Leads, Product Managers and Design Leads across the organization
- Lead engineering effort and work with Experience Leads and Designers on defining and building holistic ecosystem for tooling, governance, standards and practices
- Partner with Senior Product Managers and Engineering Leads to bring forward a common design system to power external and internal customer journeys
- Lead the transition of the current design system to the target-state across our engineering, experience, and designer teams; working with Senior leaders across the organization
- Deliver on organizational vision and objectives with high quality and time to market.
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedure
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- 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 addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Innovative and creative leader with previous experience in developing large-scale platforms and design systems
- Proven experience as Engineering Lead, hands-on Software Engineering Manager, or similar role
- Experienced organizational leader, who is passionate about building effective and empowered teams
- Strong business acumen and consumer-grade mindset
- Extensive knowledge of the engineering best practices, technical design and product development lifecycle
- Experience leading teams of technologists
- 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
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level