Software Development Director

Company: IQVIA Argentina
Location: Plymouth
Posted on: September 10, 2020

Job Description:

We're looking for a candidate to fill this position in an exciting company.

• Managing and collaborating with large multi-national team of developers (backend and frontend), test automation engineers, and devops engineers while directly supervising developers and line managers and overseeing the hiring process
• Consulting senior-level stakeholders across the organization understanding business and technology needs matching the technology to the functional requirements.
• Assessing the business impact of technical choices and keeps product owners informed about the impact of requirements on development speed
• Ensuring smooth delivery and operation of IT services utilizing an SRE model
• Creating processes and standards for selection, implementation, and support of systems and properly communicates them
• Providing direction, guidance, and training to IT staff
• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed
• Proactively helping to identify and resolve difficult technical issues.
• Providing software architecture guidance to product development teams, assessing in place design and proposing solutions to improve it
• Overseeing IT infrastructure, including Cloud infrastructure, on-premises clusters and CI/CD pipelines
• Facilitating cross-collaboration and knowledge sharing between the tech leads of the applications and create an open a transparent technical culture for all developers for them to feel incentivized to pursue new ideas and innovate
• Managing external software service providers
• 10+ years of proven experience in engineering and software architecture design for enterprise applications--with increasing responsibilities
• 5+ years of management experience; multi-national team experience a plus
• Broad management skills to lead teams, as well as the ability to influence others outside of own job area regarding policies, procedures, and goals
• Ability to handle changing priorities and to use good judgement when working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience working with customer facing, multi-tenant enterprise applications
• Expert knowledge of microservices architecture and implementation (especially Kubernetes) and big data systems (especially Hadoop ecosystem)
• Expert knowledge of IT infrastructure and cloud solutions
• Knowledge of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) discipline
• Willingness and ability to learn new technology
• Great teamwork, strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Hands-on experience of coding languages, possibly Python
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience working in a collaborative Agile environment
• Experience with building, testing, measuring, and deploying machine learning models in production

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