Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

People & Talent Management:

- Act as the primary people leader for engineers across the chapter.

- Responsible for hiring, onboarding, retention, and workforce planning.

- Drive capability building, upskilling, coaching, and mentoring initiatives.

- Manage performance reviews, career development, succession planning, and growth paths.

- Ensure balanced skill distribution and growth opportunities across teams and seniority levels.

- Foster employee engagement and a strong engineering culture.

Engineering / Technical Leadership:

- Lead and develop up to 4 cross-functional squad teams consisting of:

1. Principal Software Engineers

2. Senior Software Engineers

3. Mid-Level Software Engineers

4. Junior Software Engineers

- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

- Ensure scalable, maintainable, and operationally stable solutions through strong engineering standards and modern development practices.

- Drive engineering productivity, automation, developer experience, and adoption of modern practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and AI-supported development.

- Maintain technical and architectural oversight across the domain in close collaboration with Architects and Principal Engineers.

- Mentor and support engineering teams on best practices related to scalability, automation, operational stability, and maintainability.

- Support sustainable organizational growth, team scalability, and effective engineering team composition.

- Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes, quality standards, and operational maturity.

Collaboration & Delivery Support:

- Partner closely with Product Line Managers and Product Managers to ensure sustainable delivery and engineering feasibility while maintaining clear accountability boundaries between Product and Engineering.

- Support squads in resolving technical dependencies, engineering risks, and operational challenges.

- Ensure alignment between product requirements, architecture, operational readiness, and implementation approaches.

- Support Build+Run operational excellence and engineering readiness across teams.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

- 12+ years of experience in software engineering and engineering leadership.

- Experience leading multiple engineering teams and organizations with 20+ engineers - Java based.

- Strong understanding of scalable software architecture and modern engineering practices.

- Strong coaching, mentoring, and people leadership capabilities.

- Experience in hiring, workforce planning, and organizational scaling.

- Strong understanding of DevOps, operational excellence, and engineering productivity.

- Experience working in agile, cross-functional, and product-oriented environments.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.