Ensuring team composition and skills are adequate, line management of your team of Engineering Leads, who will look to you as a mentor to develop their skills for regular 1:1s and as a coach to guide them through the software development lifecycle.
Provide guidance to, and coach and mentor, the teams in modern web application software development practices, with specific focus on the relevant technologies and techniques used in your workstream.
Publish, communicate, and maintain the technical vision and roadmap for your Workstream
Work with the Product team to ensure the user experience across Dentsu.Connect aligns to the Product vision and meets acceptance criteria and delivery timescales are met
Work with the Engineering team to ensure the platform services are scalable, resilient, well documented and easy to consume and to maintain.
Lead the teams in best practice for good diagnostics, debugging, testing, deploying, and troubleshooting to drive quality and business value.
Enable an empowered team model and support your team's workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders
Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and assess their potential impact and benefit to the overall business strategy
Work with Architecture to ensure solution design is reviewed effectively, and is conformant with NFRs, Security and Data Privacy guidelines
Implement software engineering best practices with your peers within Engineering, such as, pair programming, clean code, CI /CD, pyramid testing within a Scrum agile delivery frame
Responsibility for code quality, ensuring test practices and code reviews are conducted to a high standard.
Candidate Profile
Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers in enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems.
Highly experienced in agile test driven software development
Passionate about writing well-crafted clean code and comfortable working in an agile environment
Ability to write high-quality code across modern Javascript based programming languages and frameworks
Knowledge and experience of delivering solutions using a microservice architecture with RESTful protocols and frameworks such as Express, NestJS and GraphQL.
Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging programming languages, frameworks, and platforms
Knowledge and experience of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Knowledge and experience of hosting in cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS
Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
Good communication and collaboration skills essential
Essential
Good experience of working in a Microsoft Azure environment
Extensive experience in building applications and web services in MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) using, Webpack, Typescript, GitHub (Experience with, Redis, Okta, OpenID a distinct
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
The purpose of this role is to create solution architectures for systems and platforms ensuring all relevant options are explored for time, cost and compliance to the company's standards, policies and practices whilst meeting the business' requirements. The role will oversee the work of other architects and delivery of the solution for clients both internal and external, shepherding it through the relevant governance.
Job Description:
Reports to: Engineering Director
Direct reports: 4/5 Engineering Leads
Key Relationships : Product, Delivery, Architecture, Security, DevOps / SRE
Role Overview
As the SME of Engineering within the Dentsu ecosystem, you will manage and mentor software teams delivering a combination of applications and systems for use by end users
You will be a strong advocate for the team and share practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams.
You will provide technical leadership across workstream discussions, ensuring seamless collaboration where technical direction is required across multiple teams building applications over our platform.
Working with Solution Architects and Developers, you will actively participate in brainstorming and solution design sessions to address the needs and technical challenges facing those teams. You will help drive the team to agreed outcomes and a technical way forward.
Working with the Product team, you will be adept at solving business problems with software in the shortest sustainable lead-time and be able to explain technical solutions clearly and succinctly to business audiences and technical teams alike.
Working with Architects and Engineering team, you will create the Technical Vision and Roadmap for the Platform Team, driving the focus on its objectives and progress against delivery.
Dentsuaegis · Dgs India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block