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