Manager, Platform Engineering

Job Purpose and Impact

The Supervisor II, Platform Engineering job sets goals and objectives for the achievement of operational results for the Digital Integration Platform team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining digital technology infrastructure to support information technology platforms and services. This job oversees the delivery against project planning and prioritization, coordinates collaboration with cross functional teams, and allocates resources effectively and efficiently. The job also leads the team to implement best in class industry standards to continuously improve the development process.

Key Accountabilities

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Oversees the implementation and delivery of software projects, including resource allocation, to ensure they are completed on time and within scope.
• TECHNICAL GUIDANCE: Leads the team to apply internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• QUALITY ASSURANCE: Leads rigorous testing, code reviews, and adherence to best in class industry standards to ensure the quality and performance of software applications.
• PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Suggests continuous improvement initiatives and leads the implementation of approved standards to improve software development and deployment processes and operational excellence, applying test driven development as needed.
• COLLABORATION: Coordinates collaboration with product managers, designers and other cross functional teams to gather requirements, set priorities and deliver resolutions to meet business objectives.
• DOCUMENTATION: Leads and reviews the creation and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Maintains partnership with key internal and external stakeholders, understanding their needs and enabling effective communication to assure project alignment and success.
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization’s goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant exp.
• Priori experience as a middleware / digital integration engineer performing platform and integration pipeline engineering leveraging advanced cloud technologies and diverse coding languages.
• Leading geographically distributed engineering teams across a large global organization
• Developing and managing strategic partnerships across both digital and business facing stakeholders
• Track record of leading architecture strategies and execution across a diverse digital and data technology landscape
• Experience developing and leading transformation strategies regarding to people, process, and technology
• Thorough understanding of industry trends and best practices related to integration platform engineering of robust, performant, and cost effective solutions
• Proven record helping drive the adoption of new technologies and methods within the digital integration team and be a role model and mentor for data engineers.