Chief Engineer

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Skyhigh Security Chief Engineer has overall accountability for how Skyhigh develops its products, ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality products. The Chief Engineer will be focused on shaping an engineering group that is capable of efficiently and effectively developing and operating a mission critical and highly scaled SaaS Service. This is a functional role working across several product verticals.

• Develop and maintain the Skyhigh SDLC, tailoring and adapting standard Agile models as the business evolves
• Develop and maintain engineering practice (e.g. coding standards, coding approaches such as BDD)
• Drive a continuous improvement culture within product engineering. Benchmark and measure against standards like DORA and develop improvement initiatives to drive improvement against the most important areas
• Establish, collect and maintain the key metrics that will be used as leading and lagging indicators to assess directional improvement
• Act as a functional leader for the engineering community. Including but not limited to establishing communities of practice, role design, career ladders, training & learning
• Embed a DevSecOps culture within the engineering group
• Work across the organization to make sure that the product lifecycle is as efficient and effective as possible from idea to implementation
• Accountable for determining the optimal engineering toolchain
• Establish and foster a you build it you run it culture

Establish and drive a Quality-first approach, including but not limited to:

• Build and maintain a Quality strategy
• Establish the key Quality metrics - lagging and leading indicators
• Build and run a quality improvement plan
• Drive functional consistency in quality the approach across different product verticals
• Ensure all levels of testing are undertaken effectively from unit testing up to full solution testing

• Prior Experience in the role of Chief Engineer or Enterprise Architect with deep experience implementing quality-first strategy, standards and practices across multiple engineering organizations
• Strong Agile practitioner with experience working with large geographically distributed global teams
• Working knowledge of Agile and DevOps best practice frameworks
• High level of understanding of business impact on technical strategy
• Strong leadership skills including vision-setting, coaching and cross-team communication
• Strong influencing skills

• Retirement Plans
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement