Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Hands on - Technical Contribution (70 %)
• Lead research & develop designs to build large scale & complex products designed to handle larger scale, availability, performance considerations
• Lead, own & design architecture evolution, hardening the architecture and design for the product
• Guide in direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues.
• Lead design reviews & code reviews
• Establish engineering best practices in design & coding & devops for the team on old & new tech stack
• Contribute to optimising design, code & mentor team on the same.
• Contribute to defining unit & functional test automation strategy & framework adoption
• Drive technology strategy and vision in collaboration with productÂ
• Engages & leads non-functional requirements like scalability, security, stability & performance for the product owned and works in collaboration with security, devops and testing team to achieve the same.
• Evaluate, drive & optimise infrastructure needs for product to meet the scalability & availability needs.
• Establish monitoring strategy & principles in line with product usage & bottlenecks.
• Identify & solve tech debts with an actionable planÂ
• Bring new ideas for product enhancement.
• Align solutions with the overall business applications and IT technology roadmapÂ
• Technical & Scrum Management (20%)
• Lead a team of engineers, with varying degrees of experience.
• Mentor & coach & train team on engineering design, coding & architecture.
• Responsible for building & creating a higher performance culture within the team
• Responsible for hiring for his/her team
• Present proposals to people, operations and engineering leadership.
• Drive development and enforcement of standards, tools and methodologies
• Checking their team’s work for technical accuracy, validity of methods used
• Own & drive on technical work assignments
  

Skills And Qualifications

• General
• Leadership, team building, and mentoring skills
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Analytics skills and experience
• Attention to detail
• Flexible thinking, including the ability to pivot and try new approaches when faced with challenges
• Organizational, planning, and documentation skills
• Proficiency using presentation software to explain complex information to non-technical management personnel and other stakeholders
• Knowledge of project management tools, bug tracking (such as JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla, Wiki, etc.)
• Write application code that exceeds the defined quality standards.
• Supporting build projects including large-scale eCommerce implementations.
• Willingness to learn new tools and technologies.
• Backend
• 10+ years of software development or programming experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Hybris
• 6+ years of experience in e-commerce with implementation in SAP-CX / SAP Hybris. Experience in 1811+ versions of hybris.
• Working knowledge required in various functionalities like CMS, Cataloguing, Pricing, Promotions, Cart, Checkout , Order management and integration with ERP systems.
• Diagnose and solve technical problems related to Hybris implementation
• Experience working with XML technology (such as XSD, SAX, DOM, XSLT).
• Good to have experience in common message brokers like Kafka or NATS
• Database
• Experience working with Database (such as MySQL, SQL Server and/or Oracle).
• Platform
• Hands on experience in configuring & using various monitoring tools like elastic search, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, etc would be needed.
• Guide the teams to the maturity levels of active monitoring and pro-actively take measures to avoid serious Non-functional requirements
• Good knowledge of container technologies & developing micro services in distributed architecture is needed.
• Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup
• Optimize application performance and scalability across on-premise AWS cloud