- Lead and manage multiple engineering teams focused on building and supporting Azure-based applications
- Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle including design, development, deployment, and support, ensuring timely and quality delivery
- Accountable for the management of software development by managing, planning, co-ordinating and tracking all IT delivery of change requests, projects, and work streams within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Manage platform governance, scalability, and performance of enterprise applications hosted on Azure
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure, Security, and other stakeholders to align technology solutions with business needs.
- Establish engineering excellence through coding standards, DevOps practices, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Management of software development teams (both internal and external), including line management and involvement of scrum ceremonies, to ensure quality software is delivered to time and budget.
- Co-coordinate with project managers, business stakeholders and IT support teams to ensure operational readiness for transitioning projects to business as usual.
- Preparation and coordination of release activities, including risk management, communications and process improvements. Note that releases and other activities will require occasional weekend working.
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineering team leads, and individual contributors within the organization
Technical Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in managerial roles
- Proven experience managing large, distributed engineering teams and complex enterprise platforms
- Extensive understanding of software development and the SDLC.
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services such as App Services, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Functions, AKS, Azure DevOps, etc
- Solid background in Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps practices, preferably with scrum master certification
- Experience managing development teams from both a project and a support perspective.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
- Ability to build high-performing, motivated, and collaborative teams
- Experience managing external service providers
- Experience in managing globally distributed teams.
- Highly organized and a good multi-tasker
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
