Introduction

You'll work in a multinational team, being responsible for the overall software platform in terms of quality and schedule of delivery, risk mitigation, resourcing, and overall productivity within your team.  

Responsibilities

• Own the team’s development roadmap ensuring its alignment to business priorities, architectural strategy, technological advances, and operational improvements
• Work with the team and external partners to ensure deliverables are defined on time and to the right level of quality to guarantee successful outputs
• Manage projects within the team; define project timelines and milestones as well as resource allocation according to existing capacity and commitments, report on status periodically and on-demand tailoring communication to the audience, handle issues and risks proactively
• Identify and develop mitigation/contingency plans, facilitate risk management process and conflict resolution
• Drive and enforce the SDLC process, and establish procedures and systems for managing and tracking change
• Manage hiring, onboarding, retention, and career development of the engineering teams ensuring that the team high-performing
• Mentor employees through example, advice, and correction; help them to expand their capacity and the capacity of their teams; participate in their career development
• Lead incident root cause analysis and work with the team to identify long term preventive measures and adapt existing processes accordingly
• Instigates cross-team initiatives and fosters collaboration across engineering groups

Requirements

• Creative problem-solving mindset, can-do attitude, and leadership skills
• A passion for software development processes, methodologies, and technologies
• Ability to learn and keep technically current with industry approaches, frameworks, and paradigms, including self-learning and company-sponsored improvement
• Well-versed in Agile software development processes and techniques and how to adapt them to the team dynamics and business needs
• Firm character, integrity, and being able to obtain respect from colleagues and likable manner to drive people
• Ability to motivate a team to achieve the defined vision and product objectives while balancing business priorities through collaboration with senior management
• Ability to manage performance and coach team members for growth through career development plans and leading by example
• Ability to work autonomously in a demanding environment taking multiple initiatives forward at the same time
• Full English professional proficiency

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