Position Overview
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building and delivering solutions in the area of Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) for the common Identity platform. In this hybrid role, you will lead teams developing modern cloud services, especially in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will build and guide highly effective and high-performing teams while inspiring them to remain at the cutting edge. You excel at both mentoring software engineers and guiding senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- You will be leading a team of software engineers to ensure execution and unlock creativity
- You will develop staff by coaching, facilitating career aspirations and providing growth opportunitie
- You will regularly communicate with team members, provide feedback, and conduct performance evaluation
- Build collaborative partnerships with the Software Architects, Technical leads, Product Owners, Product Managers and Experience Designers
- Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication cultureFoster continuous improvement and iteration
- Provide insight, feedback, and recommendations to senior management regarding the development, capabilities, and potential of current and future software projects
- Provide leadership to achieve high standards of "done" in areas of quality, security, scalability, and user experience
- Help design and build solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration for a broad range of applications and infrastructures, including cloud services and desktop solutions
- Collaborate with a geographically dispersed team and stakeholders
- Take complete ownership of the initiative and deliver it end to end while working with various stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in engineering, computer science, or equivalent industry experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience, with 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership and 2+ years of experience managing development teams
- Previously managed teams of engineers with ownership of high-scale production systems
- Experienced in one or more of the tech stacks and tools that includes AWS, Golang, C#, Python, Java etc
- Experienced in creating telemetry for the service using Splunk, New Relic, Datadog or their equivalents
- Skilled in big-picture thinking, willing to learn and dive into unfamiliar systems, and able to resolve complex and ambiguous issues from a business and technical perspective
- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, principles, practices, and methodologies
- Have insights about common engineering practice challenges and experience leading teams to fix/improve them
- Proactive, quick decision maker with excellent communication and written skills
- Expert experience with Scrum and Agile development processes and methodologies
- Experience working with remote teams and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Willingness to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones may require limited work outside regular working hours
Preferred Qualifications
- You understand what it takes to build and support highly scalable and reliable cloud web services.
- You know how to motivate and inspire your teams to be as effective as possible.
- You can spot and attract amazing talent
- You have a passion for being a mentor and a teacher
- You are a leader with vision
- You have a sense of humor and don't take yourself too seriously
- You take risks and can make quick decisions
- You can manoeuvre sometimes vague requirements
- You have a passion for continuous delivery
- You understand your job is to sometimes stay out of the way
- Last but not least, you know how to execute and have demonstrated the ability to deliver on your team's vision incrementally
