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This is a key hire for our development group and so to be successful in this role you will have excellent technical vision and leadership, the ability to drive technical decision making a history of delivering software on time.
Leadership
· Lead a culture of product development where solving problems for our customers is the highest priority.
· Act as, and be seen as a technical authority within engineering teams
· Identify emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into our operations and activities
· Ensure engineers are supported and challenged to do valuable work
· Build trust and confidence, and develop cross-departmental relationships
· Identify recruitment requirements and actively participate in the recruitment process.
Skillset
· Strong data engineering foundation gained in developing commercial applications with traditional (Oracle, SQL, Postgres, etc) and NOSQL databases (Elasticsearch, Neo4, MongoDB, etc) and streaming data (Kafka)
· Strong software development foundation gained in a senior engineering role with proven experience in systems development at scale
· Proven experience in conceptualising, documenting, and developing customer-facing products and applications
· Hands on expertise with agile methodologies and comprehensive understanding of modern patterns and practices
· Expert level knowledge of multiple technology stacks, object-oriented design approaches and enterprise design patterns
· Solid knowledge of modern enterprise and cloud architectures (e.g. microservices, serverless, event driven, reactive) and containerization methodologies.
· Comfortable with managing technical debt and working with legacy codebases
· Hands on experience with application optimisation, scaling and security. Particularly caching strategies, and large-scale distributed computing
· Proven knowledge of continuous delivery and approaches to continuous integration
You will have the opportunity to drive technical direction, architecture, design and implementation of this new product line.
Delivery
· Lead implementation and delivery ensuring coding, unit testing, system integration, defect resolution, and technical documentation adheres to our standards
· Consistently demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, initiative and drive
· Responsible for the overall technical quality of project deliverables
· Proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates these issues early to help course-correct
· Assist in troubleshooting and support efforts for existing systems and applications, focused on improving our existing systems and applications
· Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team
· Promote shared ownership of code though code reviews, standards and documentation
· Participate in the definition and implementation of the engineering team roadmap.
· Measurable improvements to the team’s output and the adoption of best practices and standards.
· Holding yourself to the highest of professional and ethical standards and expecting the same of co-workers.
Collaboration
· Work in collaboration with team members to perform scoping, estimation and technology feasibility tasks for the intended solution
· Manage dependencies among engineering activities and constantly monitor, assess and control the technical execution
· Address technical queries and elicit, prioritize, and negotiate changes to requirements and defects
· Present tech talks on design and architecture decisions, approaches and best practices
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