Technical Manager

BASIC PURPOSE:

Technical Manager/STL – Full stack is responsible for planning, designing and delivering high quality Web and Mobile Applications. Instrumental in understanding functional requirements, guiding teams through deliveries, profiling and improving front-end and back-end application performance, mentor team members and take end to end ownership of applications.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Design, build and implement performant and robust cloud platform solutions.
• Provide level of effort estimates to support planning activities.
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Architects and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
• Provide architecture and design guidance to team.
• Continuously evaluate and improve Agile practices and processes within teams.
• Guide teams in understanding ROI, prioritizing backlog items and resolving impediments.
• Deliver high-quality, secure and cost-optimized work on time.
• Establish best practices for maintaining code quality standards.
• Support software process definition and improvement initiatives and release process working with DevOps team in CI/CD pipelines developed with Terraform and CDK as Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Awareness of system defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification, and testing activities.
• Maintain Release pipelines for upcoming deliveries.
• Mentor less experienced team members.
• Build and maintain Individual Development Plans for direct reports.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Manage and inspire diverse teams, foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Enable and ensure resource utilization on high value initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / related engineering field OR equivalent experience in related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Application Development.
• 3+ years of experience in Team Management.
• Expert proficiency in React JS, React Native and Next JS.
• Expert proficiency in JavaScript/Typescript and/or Java with Spring Boot.
• Experience in AWS services including API Gateway, AppSync, Amplify, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, IAM, Cognito, Dynamo, Aurora PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, AWS Pinpoint.
• Experience in architecting and developing event driven cloud-based solutions.
• Expert understanding of building and working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Extensive experience with Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, virtualization and working with relational databases and non-relational databases.
• Experience with secure coding best practices and methodologies, vulnerability scans, threat modelling, and cyber-risk assessments.
• Familiar with modern build pipelines and tools.
• History of building high impact and high-performance applications.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills.