Engineering Lead - Data (TL) at DotModus

Role Overview

•  As an Engineering Lead for a product delivery team, you will manage and mentor the team in delivering to a specific product area, with particular focus on engaging in the best software development principles and practices.
•  You will be a strong advocate for the team and share current web development, data platform, data transformation and data integration practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams.
•  Contribute to data platform strategy and vision by working with area Product and Engineering leads
•  You will have a good understanding of and be able to coach and mentor the team in, modern agile software development practices, particularly in the areas of Scrum, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, Clean Code, microservice architectures and full team accountability for test practices.
•  You will create a culture of autonomy and proactive problem solving within your team, encouraging engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and to be enthusiastic in identifying solutions.
•  As a key member of a versatile team, you design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions and you ensure that testing and delivering quality products are owned by the whole team.
•  You will be a strong communicator and proactively help to resolve your team’s issues, where necessary through discussion with other leads and teams. Responsibilities
•  Ensuring your team composition is adequate, identifying skill shortfalls and managing your team of engineers and testers (onshore and offshore), who will look to you as a mentor for their skills and as a coach to guide them through the software development life cycle.
•  Collaborate with the Product Owner and UX Designer on problem solving and with other Leads in Engineering and other Technology functions (e.g. Architecture, DevOps, Security) to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable code which can be built, tested and deployed into Production using automation and CI/CD principles
•  Enable an empowered team model and support your team’s workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders
•  Work with your team PO and Scrum Master in preparing the team for upcoming new work; understanding and estimating epics and help to forecast likely delivery timescales;
•  Working with PO and UX Designer in regular weekly Discovery sessions to help identify potential solutions
•  Ensuring all non-functional requirements have been captured, implemented and tested in parallel to functional delivery
•  Work with Solution Architects to ensure solution design is reviewed effectively, and is conformant with NFRs, Security and Data Privacy guidelines
•  Implement software engineering best practices such as TDD /BDD, pair programming, Clean Code, CI /CD, pyramid testing within a Scrum agile delivery framework
•  Responsibility for code quality, ensuring test practices and code reviews are conducted to a high standard.
•  Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud platforms
•  Lead the efforts to troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in our development, test and production environments, including performance optimization and continuous tuning
•  Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest development methods, tools, and technologies

Candidate Profile

•  10 years + experience of leading teams in full stack web development and data technologies
•  Able to demonstrate evidence of applying technology to solve business problems using spikes, discovery and prototyping in collaboration with Product and Design teams.
•  Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers
•  Experience as a test-driven full stack Engineer with proficiency in one of the following: Python, Java or Javascript
•  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 programming languages and frameworks
•  Knowledge and experience of delivering solutions using a microservice architecture with RESTful protocols and frameworks such as Express and Swagger
•  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 an advantage
•  Good communication and collaboration skills essential

Essential

•  Good knowledge of DataBricks/Spark (using Python and associated frameworks)
•  Good knowledge of Data Lake and Azure Blob storage
•  Working knowledge of API gateways (Kong or equivalent), ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent), CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)  Good experience in a Microsoft Azure environment and data platforms

Desirable

•  Strong experience in building solutions in Node, React, Babel, Webpack, Typescript, Apollo GraphQL, REST, Redis, MongoDB, Okta, OpenID and Git
•  Strong experience of test and CI/CD frameworks such as Jest, Lint, Brigade and Helm
•  Experience of Kafka event driven architecture and Camunda workflow management