Required Skills/Responsibilities:

• Lead the upfront engagement phases of projects, collaborating with architects, project managers, and stakeholders for project setup, planning, and alignment.
• 10-15 years Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams dispersed across time zones and locations in a matrix organization for the successful delivery of projects.
• Drive service design, programming practices, platform integrations, delivery planning, and task breakdowns.
• Oversee the roadmap for your domain, aligning software lifecycle management planning and supporting improvements within the domain.
• Lead technology validation efforts in vendor labs, evaluate vendor proposals, and influence vendor roadmaps
• Create business cases for domain improvements, actively participating in industry events, and presenting findings to drive innovation and cost optimization
• Facilitate major incident resolution and review panels when needed.
• Facilitate Agile practices within the team, enhancing software development life cycle (SDLC) practices through coaching.
• Collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to comprehend project requirements, manage risks and issues effectively.
• Coach and mentor engineers, enhancing technical capabilities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with audits for the team and communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences, including senior management.
• Collaborate with resource managers to provide inputs on team resourcing needs.
• Drive the evolution of technical practices to align with industry standards, emerging technologies, and best practices.
• Exhibit strong project and time management skills, along with the ability to balance commercial and technical considerations.
• Leverage your strong technology background to understand and influence decisions related to Linux, Python, GoLang, JavaScript/NodeJS, Docker, K8S, Orchestration, SQL, NoSQL, AD, DNS, LDAP, Central Authentication, NTP, Radius, DHCP, Firewall, WiFi, networking, clustering, load balancing, TCP, and UDP.
• Embrace software engineering best practices such as DevOps, monitoring and alerting, automated software testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering required.