Tech Manager, Actimize

So, what’s the role all about?

The role of a Tech Manager is to ensure the consistent and successful delivery of software product that meets functional and technical quality objectives. The Manager accomplishes this by employing their: project management skills, understanding of technology and software engineering, and people leadership. Additionally, the Tech Manager is responsible for hiring and maintaining a highly skilled and performing team of software engineering professionals and ensuring their needs for technical challenges, skill growth, and overall career development are met.

How will you make an impact?

Project manage the teams' delivery to a successful release by tracking work, dependencies and risks and taking corrective actions as necessary. 
Be accountable (in conjunction with the team technical lead) for the quality of the teams release by ensuring best quality engineering practices are followed including (but not limited to): writing and running of unit tests, smoke- and regression- test automation, code reviews, and design practices. 
Facilitate and support team member’s technical and career growth objectives through training, leadership opportunities, challenging work assignments, and focused mentorship. 
Oversee efforts to improve operational stability of team and software product by creating and monitoring operational dashboards to monitor and alert to system/platform problems and following up on action plans as a result of customer found issues. 
Build the team by hiring the best engineers. This includes direct participation and delegation of all recruitment and hiring activities as needed. 
Mentor/Guide the team technically. 
Work and collaborate in multi-disciplinary Agile teams, adopting Agile spirit, methodology and tools. 
Work with the Architect to develop prototypes/PoCs and validate design approach. 
Collaborate with various development & product teams in India, Israel, Slovakia, and US. 
Proactive and on-going performance management activities including regular 1:1s for establishing direction and providing corrective and reinforcing feed-back intended to help engineers to define and achieve career objectives and participating in R&D-wide performance calibration meetings. 
Follow the company Code of Ethics, policies and procedures at all times. 
Communicate in an effective and professional way with customers in and outside of the company. 
Reduce liability to the company by ensuring engineers are trained in relevant security and privacy standards and coding practices follow the same.

Have you got what it takes?

15+ years of experience in software engineering building highly available, scalable & distributed software systems
3+ years managing high performing team of 10+ engineers in an agile based software product development environment. 
Experience developing and supporting highly available, scalable, & distributed multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS product; preferably in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Development experience with Java, Spring boot microservices, Kafka, REST API, SQL, NoSQL databases
Deep Knowledge and experience with software design patterns and how they can be incorporated into software design
Deep experience with agile software development techniques and pitfalls. 
Familiar with DevOps processes and tools employed in SaaS architectures to support CI/CD and monitoring. 
Nice-to-have: Development experience with Frontend stack like VueJS/ ReactJS /AngularJS/NodeJS, HTML, CSS
Nice-to-have: Experience with data processing frameworks like Flink/Spark
Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Time Series databases and Graph databases
Nice-to-have: Development experience with data pipelines and ETL technologies. 
Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Security systems and practices (SAML, Oauth, JWT)

Education Qualification:

BE/B.Tech in Computer Science