IT Tech lead - remote

INTERVIEW PROCESS: 2 rounds 1 technical virtual, 1 onsite

Top Priorities

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Engineering Lead, leading developers and driving technical direction
• Experience working alongside Solution Architects to define architecture standards, development practices, and technical roadmaps
• Strong hands-on background with Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, AWS, APIs, and modern cloud architecture

Additional Context

• This person will work closely with our client Solution Architect to establish reference architecture and development standards.
• They will be responsible for ensuring multiple developers, including offshore resources, are aligned and executing consistently.
• Leadership through influence and mentorship is critical.
• The manager emphasized that this candidate must be able to operate beyond the level of a Senior Developer and be highly self-sufficient.

TOP SKILLS REQUIRED

1 Must have leadership experience! (Sr Level Tech Lead)

2 Hands-on expertise in Java/Spring Boot and React/TypeScript with the ability to mentor and guide development teams.

3 Strong enterprise architecture background with AWS, APIs, and modern cloud-based application development.

4 Experience leading distributed/onshore-offshore development teams and establishing development standards and best practices.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION:

• Establishing / Maintaining project specifications and technical direction
• Creating / Maintaining a framework of technical standards and procedures
• Creating / Maintaining a framework of Development Standards
• Work with Solutions Architecture to maintain C4 Model documentation
• Overseeing software quality and system modifications
• Guiding team members with troubleshooting technical issues
• Analyzing existing operations to identify risks and redundancies
• Conducting comprehensive assessments to develop solutions
• Determining project technical and development requirements
• Ensures that EPICs, Stories, etc. contain the right level of detail to ensure efficiency and quality in every sprint
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Motivating development staff (mentoring) and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.

YOUR EXPERTISE:

• Customer-Centric Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
• Communication and Persuasion Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding.
• Business Acumen Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business.
• Technical Expertise Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
• Strategic Thinking and Vision Possess a clear sense of the direction of the organization and understand what will create a competitive advantage for the business in the future. Distinguish tactical issues from strategic ones and take action while effectively translating strategic imperatives at the macro level into initiatives and priorities.
• Simplistic Agility Foster simplicity and agility to focus on what adds value while resolving issues
• Global Perspective Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company's strategy and priorities into consideration.
• Accountability Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.
• Analysis Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources.
• Supplier Management Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support.

YOUR CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 8 years of Application Development experience and / or experience as a Technical Lead
• Knowledge of IT processes, IT functions (development, infrastructure, security, governance), and technology (cloud, big data, architecture, APIs)
• Knowledge of Agile, Project Management, and Innovation processes
• Ability to work with teams in Application Managed Services (AMS) environment driving engagement with an ownership mindset
• Experience leading projects
• Understanding of business processes and best practices to provide effective solutions

YOUR SPECIFIC CREDENTIALS:

Digital Factory Leader:

• Extensive experience and the ability to lead and mentor others in:
  • Java/Spring Boot/Gradle
  • React/Typescript/NodeJS
    • NextJS, NestJS experience is a plus
  • Python/FastAPI
    • Pandas, Django experience is a plus
  • Docker files and composing services with Docker Compose
  • Git
    • Conventional Commits and Keep a Changelog conventions
• Strong knowledge of and experience with:
  • AWS Cloud
    • Kubernetes
    • Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, S3, RDS, EC2, Event Bridge, Cloud Watch
    • Configurations and policies associated with integrating these services
  • Event Driven Architecture

• Desirable knowledge:
  • Visual Communication Soft Skills
    • C4 model component/ code level diagrams
    • BPMN or Activity Diagrams
  • Gitlab
    • CI/CD Pipelines
    • YAML configuration files
    • Branching Strategies
  • IAC Tools
    • SAM, CDK or Terraform
  • Datadog
  • SAP
    • ECC, APO
    • SAP Hana
    • SAP Commerce/Hybris

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