Engineering Practice Lead

June 3

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Agile Software Development • DevOps • Lean Product Management • User Centered Design • Digital Transformation

51 - 200 employees

🏛️ Government

Description

• Motivate, cast vision, and provide growth opportunities to the practice. • Recruit the right talent at the right time into my practice by utilizing a modern hiring and allocations process • Retain high-quality talent by providing career development advice to my team members. • Grow my practice’s talent by being an empathetic practice coach and mentor. • Accelerate practice scale and reach by fostering and promoting a culture of continuous learning and feedback so that people can enable others. • Coach, mentor, and train coaches and staff to accelerate their skills and value to the customer. • Encourage and monitor company culture within the practice and grow the current talent through communication and pairing. • Advocate for the practice and drive internal and external awareness of the value and impact the company provides. • Identify gaps, initiate constructive dialogues, and partner with HR for improvement strategies in performance management. • Maintain project awareness, engage selectively, and offer high-level guidance for holistic oversight. • Conduct productive department meetings, encourage participation, and idea exchange for strategized meetings. • Monitor productivity, adapt workloads, and ensure sustainable performance with efficiency planning. • Amplify team expertise through engaging online content, showcase achievements and insights for an elevated online presence. • Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of projects and related systems applying strong detail-orientation and problem-solving skills as it pertains to technical implementation techniques. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and operations, to define and deliver on key product initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience supporting Software and/or DevOps environments. • Minimum 4 years of experience managing and overseeing technical teams. • Strong background in DevOps practices and software engineering principles with a commitment to staying updated with industry trends and tools. • Experience in evaluating engineers, creating skills matrices, and driving talent development while simultaneously displaying a track record of successfully managing engineering teams, offering technical guidance, and fostering innovation. • Solid foundation in software design, development, architecture principles, and the software development lifecycle. • Ability to formulate and execute a technical strategy aligning with business goals. • Experience in guiding engineering practices, especially pair programming, alongside excellent communication skills crucial for collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders. • In-depth understanding of DevOps methodologies, automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containerization, and orchestration. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for technical challenges and solutions. • Proficiency in project management methodologies, with a track record of on-time project delivery.

Benefits

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce • Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage. • Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay. • Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 10 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement. • Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $4,000 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials. • Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 50% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. • Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro and multi-port adapter.