Director Engineering

Job Description

The Director of Engineering will be primarily responsible for one or more product areas and leads a team of Tech leaders and problem solving engineers. The Director should be hands-on in building scalable products used by millions of users and bring extraordinary leadership in Engineering and Operational excellence. The Director should be obsessed about customer focus and curious about new possibilities and passionately explore them. The Director must be able to cope and thrive in an environment of intense pressure and pace of change. Agility is extremely important at Phenom and ability to multi-task is critical.

Description:

• Director for Engineering is ultimately responsible for the quality, on time and budget delivery of product release objectives established in conjunction with product management.
• Diving deep into projects, issues when needed to get into details and demonstrate that no task is beneath them.
• Facilitate communication upward and across project teams including project status, justifications for variances and technical information (design and implementation objectives).
• Speed matters at Phenom and calculated risk taking is valued. Manage the trade-offs between time, budget and quality and communicate when that is happening and why.
• Hiring the best talent by self-initiative, innovative methods and not just relying on Phenom recruitment team.
• Embed sound industry-standard software engineering best practices within the broader engineering team that will be grappling with multiple priorities and pressures in every release.
• Should have prior expertise in owning and delivering non-functional roadmap for complex products in terms of performance engineering, scalability, security and supportability.
• Set high standards, lead the team in a dynamic environment and deliver project timelines while adapting to change.
• Earn the trust of not only the team but cross functional teams across the board.
• Ensure all processes and procedures, both internal to the team and interaction with other teams, are followed and work to improve whenever appropriate and necessary.
• Coordinate to provide technical guidance/assistance to the team when necessary.
• Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties.
• Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team
• Plan and execute a structured approach to enhancing the skill level and productivity levels of the team.

Work Experience

Qualifications:

• Software Engineering expert with 10+ years of experience including 5+ years managing teams developing large transactional applications.
• Expertise in developing J2EE platforms using SOA and micro-services. Working experience on SaaS products & platforms will be added advantage
• Strong Foundation of relational and nosql databases
• Strong knowledge of frameworks like Play, Spring, etc
• Strong technical skills covering web based development tools (Java/J2EE), scalable application development techniques to build large transactional systems, and consumer facing application development
• Has to be able to understand complex technical systems and have "good taste" in architecture.
• A sense for technical detail- know when to delegate and when to back off, but be able to make sure small things are just right
• Proven Experience on enterprise systems, modern UI/html development, big data, etc. is good.
• Good team building and management skills
• Proven experience delivering release objectives in a variety of methodologies including agile methodologies such as Scrum
• Recognized self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of winning in a rapidly changing marketplace
• Strong written and oral communication and persuasion skills
• Strong business, project management and operational skills
• Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail
• Ability to communicate to all levels of the organization from senior management to engineers both internally and externally

Education

• Education: BE / MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Work Experience

• Experience: 14+ years of Strong Product Development in Java platforms