Description:
• Provide the vision and direction of the Technical Roadmap
• Stay in tune with the Product Roadmap and deadlines especially where the US Teams are involved
• Understand and adopt the Architecture Vision from the CTO & Chief Innovation Officer
• Assist & enable the VP Engineering with creating, maintaining, and publishing Architecture Strategy and Architecture Decision Guidelines
• Attend all your team’s Sprint Planning sessions, and hold Team Leads accountable to our Client''s quality standards, and act as an advocate for organizational OKRs.
• Provide team with technical guidance in accordance with architectural strategy
• Partner closely with Senior Scrum Master, and routinely and proactively facilitate knowledge sharing with Agility Team
• Understand all of the components and features that your teams are accountable for, and communicate with Product Leadership to ensure consistent alignment
• Ensure US Engineering team is in synch with SA Engineering team, by facilitating best practices across borders, encouraging collaboration, and finding opportunities to connect your team’s work to Client''s mission.
• Maintain alignment of feature teams to business and technical delivery expectations, and act as a point of contact for escalations and leadership communications. Communicate effectively with business leaders across the Client to ensure visibility and encourage partnership.
• Work with sometimes ambiguous / conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to provide functionality with the right amount of engineering
• Working closely with other development managers to make sure that we are not “re-inventing the wheel” in other teams (This includes Architecture, Agility, Infrastructure, Security and QA)
• Keeping track of “Complexity/Technical Debt” effort and log “why” it was required across your areas of responsibilities.
• Making sure that all the Teams are following the Release Process as defined by the QA Manager
• Assist the Product Team in T-Shirt sizing of new feature requests (only to assist in validation of feature requests)
• Making sure that all Teams are following the Software Engineering Ways of Work (Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Scrum, Standards), and continually educate on and reaffirm these values in team meetings.
• Documenting processes and own the Software Engineering Handbook
• First point of call for Support Query Escalations for the Engineering teams
• First point of call for internal product delivery queries for the Engineering teams/projects
• Find ways to make work visible (planned, unplanned, changes and risk) and communicate regularly
• Manage recruiting lifecycle for Engineering teams, including proactive engagement with HR to scope, staff, and onboard new positions. Ensure new hires are technically competent and meet organizational needs.
• Manage a complex and growing team, by coaching and upskilling team members, and serving as a
05 Apr 2022;
from:
gumtree.co.za