Director of Engineering

Core Responsibilities:

● Complexity: Lead one or more technical projects with high complexity

● Ability to lead up to 3 teams of size up to 20 engineers, with each team consisting of 5-8 engineers and testers

● Ability to lead engineers and technical leads

● Collaborate with multiple internal Agile teams to execute the projects successfully

● Adept in one or mode coding languages & open-source frameworks

● Ability to create distributed systems using micro-services and event driven architecture

● Ability to create solutions with high availability, resilience & scalability

● Ability to stay on top of technology trends and experiment/implement cutting-edge technologies

● Encourage innovation, critical & out-of-box thinking & self-organisation

● Coach, mentor and lead the developers and technical leads

● Ability to lead, manage & grow teams up to size 20

Qualifications/Requirements:

Mandatory Qualifications

● At least 5 years of experience in software engineering

● Min 5 years of people management experience

● Job specific skills Java Spring-Boot microservices .

● Experience building streaming data applications (Spark Streaming, Kafka, Kinesis etc.)

● Experience using CI/CD practices

● At least 3 years of experience with AWS

● Ability to build Cloud Native applications

● Strong understanding of AWS services (Rt53, Compute, S3, Lambda, Database)

● Good understanding of Dockerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Good to have :

● AWS Solutions Architect Certification

● Participate in interviews and contribute to hiring

● Ability to attract and retain top latent

● At least 5 years of experience using agile methodology practices

● Ability to assess a and improve velocity of teams

● Able to remove team impediments