Strategic Vision and Roadmap:
- Define and drive the overarching strategic roadmap for F1T Reliability, encompassing observability, automation (including on-call and production verification), and AI-driven testing.
- Champion "Quality as a Product," clearly articulating how reliability metrics directly contribute to enhanced customer satisfaction and significant business growth.
Establishing and Driving Adoption of Key Metrics:
- Establish critical business and product reliability metrics (e.g., uptime SLAs, MTTR targets) in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Drive the adoption and operationalization of these metrics across all Fintech teams, fostering a shared accountability model for reliability outcomes.
Cross-Functional Leadership and Execution:
- Serve as the primary Product leader for all F1T reliability and quality initiatives, providing clear priorities and facilitating resource alignment.
- Partner closely and influence Engineering, SRE, Data Science, and Business teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of reliability improvements and new capabilities.
Innovation in Automation and AI:
- Lead the exploration and implementation of innovative automation and AI solutions, including GenAI for test data creation, mocking, and end-to-end test automation, to significantly reduce manual testing overhead.
- Drive the development of self-healing and auto-remediation strategies, leveraging AI for proactive monitoring and faster incident resolution.
Implementing Observability and Resiliency:
- Establish and guide the implementation of a comprehensive observability stack (logs, metrics, traces) to provide proactive visibility into system behavior.
- Champion and guide the chaos engineering agenda, including regular failure and load testing, to proactively verify system resilience and readiness for peak traffic.
Governance, Compliance, and Risk Management:
- Develop and maintain critical Fintech workflow runbooks and ensure robust Disaster Recovery plans and testing protocols are in place.
- Implement a centralized audit and compliance review mechanism to meet regulatory requirements and safeguard customer trust.
Reporting, Communication, and Stakeholder Management:
- Regularly communicate progress, risk assessments, and performance metrics to executive leadership, clearly articulating the business value of improved reliability.
- Act as a strong advocate for reliability and quality needs across broader Fintech and Intuit forums, ensuring alignment and support at all levels.