Director of Engineering

Job description

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