Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join The Adaptavist Group as an Engineering Team Lead and play a critical role in managing and developing internal services engineering teams. Lead a team of data and software engineers, focusing on process automation, data analysis, and system integrations. This dynamic role demands both technical expertise and visionary leadership, requiring you to champion the advancement and application of key services. You will manage daily team activities, liaise with stakeholders, translate business needs into technical tasks, and ensure successful execution of BAU Prod activity. The ideal candidate possesses advanced stakeholder management skills, proven programming skills in Java, significant AWS and IaC experience, and line management experience. The company offers unlimited PTO, flexible working hours, and exceptional parental leave policies.

Requirements

• Advanced stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence key decision-makers
• Able to balance short-term tactical demands against long-term objectives, particularly the avoidance of creating technical debt
• Able to say ‘No’ in potentially challenging situations and manage issues
• Proven programming skills and ability to train others in Java. Combined with this, the experience of the common frameworks used within the programming languages ecosystem
• Significant experience with AWS and IaC and services such as Kinesis, S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda and S3
• Line management experience
• Able to work on own initiative, self-motivated, and time efficiently
• Able to communicate technical solutions/issues to technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders
• Experience with streaming technologies
• Kubernetes experience
• Kafka experience
• Experience with Apache Airflow and Apache Flink

Responsibilities

• Manage the day to the day activities of a high-functioning engineering team
• Liaise with key business stakeholders, identifying where additional value can be delivered incrementally over time within the owned subject area
• Take ambiguous needs from the business and turn these into technical tasks to be completed by the engineering team
• Be accountable for the successful daily execution of BAU Prod activity
• Work alongside other engineering team leads within the office of COO, contributing to the overall engineering and service strategy
• Prioritise tasks and communicate these to team members
• Mentor, coach, and inspire the engineering team resources within the wider organization
• Support the creation of internal SOW and track them through to completion
• Support the team by owning and managing escalations
• Assist with Sprint ceremonies and management of the engineering teams backlog
• Explore new technologies to identify new patterns and trends
• Ensure that best practice is followed by the team and pay back technical debt

Benefits

• We offer an unlimited holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team
• We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices
• Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS