Lead Engineer

As Lead Software Engineer, you drive technical initiatives, lead software development projects, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

• Lead and manage software development initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery and quality standards.
• Drive technical initiatives that improve our engineering practices.
• Mentor and coach engineering team members, promoting their professional growth.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical insights.
• Represent the engineering team in cross-area meetings.
• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding process to build a strong engineering team
• Coach engineers to help them pursue their career aspirations and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Represent the product team in larger forums, effectively communicating development statuses, challenges, and requirements to a broader audience.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager to ascertain that the team possesses the requisite competencies for delivering on committed objectives.
• Engage at the value stream level to ensure alignment of technical efforts with organizational objectives and value delivery.
• Serve as the representative from the designated technical area in release management activities, bridging gaps, and proposing approaches to ensure seamless software delivery.
• Take ownership and drive tasks within the Community of Practice (CoP), promoting a culture of shared learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Design systems that meet the non-functional requirements, i.e. requirements on performance, availability, security, compliance, scalability, efficiency and maintainability following the architecture design, principles and guidelines provided by Solution Architects.
• Align stakeholders on architectural decisions and design patterns
• Use patterns and best practices to integrate different systems and technologies to work together effectively
• Plan and implement upgrades and new technologies
• Advise teams on Infrastructure Cost Management
• Accountable for Incorporating security practices into the DevOps workflow. Promoting a culture of secured application development - DevSecOps
• Accountable for applying threat modeling methodologies
• Accountable to perform code reviews with security threats in mind and address any security incidence with a sense of urgency
• Address process deviations and enable security patches for third party libraries
• Collaborate with security teams for expert guidance and consultation
• Define and drive the long-term vision for DevOps practices and operational excellence.
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Provide technical leadership in designing highly complex, scalable, and resilient systems.
• Oversee the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Drive innovation in automation, monitoring, and incident management.
• Collaborate with other senior leaders to align technology strategy with business objectives
• Design and implement Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Support in Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective establishment.

• Applicable working experience or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Advanced certifications in project management or relevant technologies are a plus.
• Solid experience with modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Expertise in version control systems, such as Git, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, with experience leading Agile teams.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills with the ability to foster a positive and collaborative team environment.
• Experience in people management, including hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluations.
• Ability to drive innovation and improvements in engineering practices within the team and organization.
• Solid experience in designing and architecting systems and applications.
• Understanding of architecture patterns and frameworks.