Engineering Lead

Job Summary

An experienced skilled technology expert who manages the technical delivery, works with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics and releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy
• Develop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Domain Tech Lead.
• Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.
• Execute the Hive's product vision with the Hive Leads.
• Collaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.
• Communicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate clear explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.
• Business
• Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
• Perform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications.
• Deliver solution intent (SI) and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.
• Collaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.
• Proactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.
• Develop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.
• Technical Leadership
• Influence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.
• Incorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.
• Align detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture and product/platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards.
• Support the squad in clearly slice the back log into independently shippable experience for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.
• Identify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.
• Accountable to work with technical counterparts to mitigate technical debt and balance risk, and regulatory items with new features, functionality, or changes to keep the cost of change low.
• Responsible to work in partnership with technology to ensure a balance of functional and non-functional requirements are represented in the backlog and that there is an approach to mitigate or avoid technical debt.
• Lead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.
• Act as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.
• Drive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments

Skills and Experience

• API & Microservices
• Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Database Technologies (SQL, NoSQL)
• Integration Technologies
• Agile Methodologies, Lean Framework
• DevOps Engineering

Qualifications

• Graduation or Post-Graduation in Computer Science Engineering
• Experience in the software development using Agile methodologies
• Knowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework 
• Knowledge & Experience in the API & Microservices
• Knowledge & Experience in J2EE and good understanding of OOA and OOP
• Knowledge & Experience in Integration technologies – MQ, Kafka, Solace
• Knowledge / Experience in Container platform and Cloud technologies
• Knowledge / Experience in DevOps & SRE
• Experiences with relational databases and NOSQL databases
• More than 10+ years' experience in software development domain
• Proven experience in solution management, business development, or a related field
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and experience with agile methodologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and partners
• Strong project management skills and experience leading cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of technology and the ability to learn new technologies quickly