Key responsibilities for the organization

• Be overall accountable for IT-related aspects (architecture, technology, support, maintenance, quality, deployment, improvements/enhancements, privacy, security, risk, monitoring and incident management) of a defined portfolio of applications.
• Be overall responsible for the governance and oversight of that portfolio of applications.
• Efficiently elicit and analyse requirements from all the internal stakeholders, consolidate and maintain a roadmap, plan the execution with milestones and deliverables and get ‘go/no-go’ from the different internal stakeholders.
• Ensure use of best in class software development practices (coding, testing, deployment, security) while minimizing regressions.
• Remove roadblocks and escalate where appropriate.
• Communicate clearly with team members, internal stakeholders and leaders.
• Build relationships with all internal parties: communicate, motivate, and inspire team members; gain influence, trust, and credibility within the organization to build and help foster collaborative work relationships.
• Ensure compliance with our policies, processes and legal guidelines.
• Reduce complexity by understanding business requirements and applying application domain expertise to solve problems.
• Ensure that all common processes and procedures are documented and easily accessible by all relevant parties.

Key responsibilities for the team

• Set and enforce clear expectations for the team.
• Monitor and evaluate team performance and continuously coach team members via the Performance Management process.
• Supports team members in applying best practices throughout the analysis, estimation, design, development, and deployment of new software and systems.
• Produce personal development plans (PDPs) for individuals.
• Escalate and resolve performance issues.
• Ensure team effectiveness, utilization, and performance is at high levels.
• Recruitment and onboarding of new developers
• Promote Collabora ideals and values.
• Promote the morale of the team.

Requirements

• Solid experience of designing, building, supporting and managing business critical, data-driven Web Applications in a Linux environment.
• Understanding of Open Source, its value and position in the software industry.
• Understanding of Open Source engineers and communities, both motivation for individual developers and interactions between projects.
• Strong understanding of software engineering.
• Demonstrated career progression into a management position.
• Good interpersonal skills: outgoing and engaging individual who is effective at building good working relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Good English language skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to work and communicate in an online, globally distributed environment.
• Coaching and mentoring experience, and process development skills.
• Project and people management experience