Director of Engineering

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>OVERVIEW:</strong>   </p><p>Join our Live Data Tribe and become a part of the global fast-growing success of Sportradar.  A technology first software development company with high emphasis on achieving technical excellence and building services on best practice cloud principles. Mutually beneficial partnerships are the cornerstone of our business. We partner with the largest sport federations in the world including UEFA, NBA, NHL, MLB, ATP and many more.   </p><p>   </p><p>Our vision is built on long-term relationships with all our clients, backed by innovative and competitive services and solutions. We build our own product and believe in 'you build it, you own it', so we want to give our teams autonomy to choose the right solutions.   </p><p> </p><p><strong>JOB PROFILE:   </strong> </p><p>We are looking for a senior engineering leader who loves working with both people and software. We expect that you, as a leader, are passionate about building an environment where software engineers can achieve their full potential. As an engineer, you have a great understanding of modern development techniques and can be a partner and mentor for your leaders and teams to choose the best solutions. We expect that you can be an advocate of clean code, and clean architecture, TDD (Test Driven Development), pair programming and always welcome feedback. You will be given a lot of autonomy, and we want you to use the most of it and drive the team towards technical excellence. We hope you feel learning is a natural part of your workday and you have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise. In the role you will:  </p><ul><li><p>Lead a team of diverse and talented engineering leaders and teams with various levels of expertise.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Coach engineering leaders to grow, by supporting and giving them frequent feedback, setting individual goals, and assessing performance.   </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Facilitate technical discussions and help to make the best decisions.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Be a member of the Tribe Leadership Team shaping the culture and engineering practices of the entire Tribe.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Partner with Tribe Product Owner to ensure we build the right solutions for our business goals. </p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Required:   </strong> </p><ul><li><p>Experience in building and leading motivated, high performing teams working in an agile environment  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Excellent communication skills, ability to engage colleagues to thoughtfully work toward a single goal and help the team to adapt and succeed when things do not go exactly as planned.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Broad technical experience to understand the complexity of services the team develops, challenge ideas and facilitate technical discussion.    </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Practical experience in applying Domain-Driven Design principles to model complex business domains </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Practical software development experience with particular focus on good practices like clean code, design patterns, TDD/ATDD, pair programming etc.  </p></li></ul><p>   </p><p><strong>Desirable </strong>:    </p><ul><li><p>Experience with cloud native applications (preferably AWS)  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Experience with large scale event streaming architectures, messaging brokers (for example Kafka)  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Experience in designing, developing, and deploying microservices-based applications. This includes a strong understanding of service decomposition, API design, inter-service communication </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Experience with modern web technologies, e.g. web sockets, HTTP/2, REST, gRPC </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Experience with Docker, Kubernetes    </p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING</strong> </p><p><strong>General: </strong> </p><ul><li><p>Accountable for the tribe’s Software Delivery &amp; Operational performance; productivity and predictability.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Accountable for recruitment, performance management, training of technical tribe members.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Accountable for the technology and design of applications and services in alignment with architectural governance.  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Ensure adherence to the policies and standards set by the Central Engineering function  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Demonstrate technical mastery and be an inspirational leader who can mentor and ensure continuous development of competencies of our Engineering teams  </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Responsible for “Design, Build and