• Execute the vision, goals, priorities, and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members to develop best-in-class software
• Drive continuous improvement to deliver solutions that are at the forefront of industry leading techniques while also adhering to best practices.
• Directly support technical mentoring and growth of team’s technical maturity through pairing and other coaching techniques. Grow new mentors from emerging talent.
• Support a culture of learning and development. Promote and enable technical skills development in support of high-quality code components, systems, and solutions.
• Work in partnership with Product and Architecture teams to derive technical requirements from business requirements and identify risk areas.
• Support recruitment and resource plans of the team to hire great development talent; including; recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding/training
• Escalate concerns to leadership, as needed, and remove roadblocks for the team
• An advocate for 84.51 delivery methodology.
• Participate in and contribute to Agile team ceremonies; including Backlog Reviews, Retrospectives, Architectural Reviews, team and system demos
• Lead Communities of Practice.
• Work cross functionally to align strategy, methodology and execution

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or another heavily technical program
• 10+ years’ experience in a hands-on technical role leading/mentoring by example
• Experience in building Data Engineering solutions is required
• Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
• Strong software development leadership skills bringing industry proven best practices to fruition
• Experience building enterprise level software solutions with solid proficiencies in performance tuning and debugging 
• Experience building distributed data pipelines ingesting data from multiples sources
• Experience with data modeling, managing data access and applying data storage techniques
• Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills. Strong analytical mind.
• Comfortable with thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo, respectfully and courageously, to deliver results in a dynamic environment. 
• Mastery in many of the following tech skills and principles:
• Agile Experience
• Experience with Java, Python or Scala
• Git
• Microservice design principles
• CI/CD
• Automated Testing

Desired Characteristics & Technical Skills:

• Knowledgeable and experienced in the following tech skills and principles:
• Technical Management experience
• Agile Methodology
• SQL
• MongoDB
• RabbitMQ
• Snowflake
• PythonSparkDevOps principles