Engineering Manager

Job Description

Work as the Delivery Manager of a team responsible for developing large-scale applications in accordance with established processes. You will apply your knowledge of building scalable, distributed applications and have the opportunity to work with new technologies & frameworks.

Essential Functions include but are not limited to the following.

You will be expected to:

• Contribute to all phases in the software lifecycle requirements analysis, solution design, development, and deployment.
• Responsible for project, people & delivery management
• Define and maintain high quality standards for the work undertaken and be responsible for the quality of your own and your team’s deliverables.
• Work closely with Product Managers to create the product & technology roadmap.
• Mentor the less experienced team members and help onboard new team members.
• Work closely with the management team to implement software engineering practices and uphold standards.
• Suggest appropriate technologies and platforms to use to deliver customer requirements.
• Your primary focus will be to ensure projects are developed in accordance with established engineering processes, adhering to scope, schedule constraints and agile project plans.
• Work effectively as part of a distributed team.
• Participate in code reviews.

Requirements

Key technical expertise areas expected for this role:

• Currently leading a team using Agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban Framework)
• Experience with project management & people management (direct people reporting)
• Experience with system designing & development (preferably backend & distributed systems)
• Demonstrable ability to drive the release cadence.
• Experience with distributed systems with specific focus on security and scalability
• Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure

Additional areas that would add value:

• Agile Scrum Master or Project Management Certification
• Experience working with Microservice based Architecture.
• Experience working with Virtualization and Containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns & their application in system design
• Using DevOps & Infrastructure tooling such as GoCD/Jenkins, Git
• Test Driven & Behavior Driven Development