Director, Application Development-Platform Engineer

JOB SUMMARY: 

 

Oversees day to day application development projects and engineering while leading continuous improvement on process definition and compliance. Directly manages software engineers and project managers. Delivers on commitments to discipline partners and collaborates with architects on major organizational initiatives across multiple channels & platform. Functions as the technical decision-maker and problem solver to deliver projects on time and on budget. Promotes project quality and manages the application development team to promote satisfaction with all technology teams and business partners by following standard application development tools and processes.  Manages continuous improvement program to improve quality, consistency, and client satisfaction.

 

CANDIDATE PROFILE 

 

Education and Experience 

Required:

• 10+ years of application development leadership experience that includes:
  • 7+ years of technical experience within distributed architecture frameworks, integration of backend systems and development
  • In-depth knowledge of integration approaches and architectures
  • Experience with designing & implementing cloud native solutions and integration, microservices-architecture and API orchestration architecture
  • Experience with technologies – Java, Python, GraphQL, Javascript, React, NodeJS, NoSQL, Spring boot, Kafka, Docker, K8s, etc
  • Experience & understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, logging, metrics, monitoring, tracing, service mesh, LTM, GTM, SEO etc.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms and designing cloud native solutions (e.g. AWS, Azure)
  • Strong understanding of API platforms, frontend technologies, back-end services, database and networking components of full stack infrastructure

 

• Direct management of cross functional, sourced, or matrixed teams
• Undergraduate/graduate degree or equivalent education + experience

 

Preferred:

• Experience with defining API gateway roadmap and with automated API provisioning.
• Demonstrated success leading medium- to large-scale initiatives/transformations 
• Proven management experience in strategic planning and budgeting within one or more business groups
• Experience with and knowledge of IT outsourcing activities in a managed services environment
• Proven management experience in application development across waterfall and agile environments.
• Digital Customer Experience platforms (Adobe AEM and Marketing Cloud, Analytics, DTM, Target, Search & Promote)
• Proven knowledge of SDLC; good understanding of ITIL v3 Framework
• Proven knowledge of Agile methodology; preferably SAFe Agile
• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, XML, REST APIs etc)
• Experience & expertise with microservices architectures, Service Mesh (e.g. Istio), Service discovery, rate limiting, config management etc.
• Active contributions to OSS projects
• Relevant technology certifications
• Experience in full stack development
• Experience with Content Management Systems
• Good process management, negotiating, influencing and problem resolution skills 
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Knowledge of business environment, service requirements and hospitality culture
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Ability to understand and communicate the lifecycle of technologies and applications and to translate into business strategies for the client organizations.
• Solid understanding of IT financial structures and ability to manage to corporate financial processes and standards - including drivers of process costs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy to understand business terms
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and leading in a managed service environment
• Ability to bridge the gap between technology and business
• Self-driven, curious and a fast-learner, and able to work in a fast-paced environment launching new consumer products to market
• Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate between technical and business teams
• Relevant experience in systems integration and development, package analysis and implementation
• Excellent collaborator