Engineering Manager

Turnberry Solutions is a consulting firm that specializes in digital modernization. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team in designing and implementing technical solutions while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Design Solutions
• Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction
• Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions
• Review and support execution of technical solutions, including integration of Kafka topics, Informatica workflows, and Java-based applications
• Develop Software
• Demonstrate hands-on experience in software development and code review
• Stay current with coding best practices and industry standards
• Ensure thorough code reviews and apply strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Learn and Apply New Techniques
• Promote and empower sharing ideas, best practices, etc., need to make space so teams can take time for these activities
• Anticipate and analyze trends in technology and assess the impact of emerging technologies on the business
• Collaborate Within Team
• Support the team agile practices and learning events/trainings
• Help break down barriers for the team
• Engage in sprint demos; understand the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team
• Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provide clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise
• Collaborate with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets, and measures for product groups
• Create a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging, and appreciating each other’s ideas
• Collaborate Across Teams
• Support and empower teams to broker solutions across products
• Understand how the product integrates with other products and ensure consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome
• Build strong working relationships with peers across teams
• Proactively identify cross team challenges and work to empower teams in solve collaboratively
• Collaborate Across the Organization
• Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to establish ways of working
• Set Product/Platform Technology Strategy
• Participate in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives, and alignments
• Represent the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influence prioritization in the product roadmap
• Empower the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area
• Define Engineering Standards/Patterns
• Collaborate with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines
• Promote Engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability
• Contribute to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns
• DevOps
• Define and support the development Lifecyle processes
• Support the team and remove barriers to resolve production incidents/problems
• DevOps continuously evaluate through observability, monitoring, and alerting
• Understand the health of technology products and promote prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve
• Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues
• Select and Manage Technology Vendors
• An advocate to the team to define criteria’s for selecting the right platform/technology
• Guide the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team
• Work with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection
• Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships
• Coach Engineers
• Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meeting
• Provide constructive feedback, guidance, and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience
• Provide career planning advice to engineers and create development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities
• Recruit/Build Talent
• Lead the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners
• Plan in advance for future people needs for the product groups and collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process
• Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization
• Model company leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
• Support and/or develop an environment in which employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients
• Shape and/or support a culture that represents the purpose, promise and values, ensuring that trust and reputation remain strong with its clients
• Manage a team of direct and indirect staff

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, other technical field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology, including 5+ years of experience in IT discipline, e.g. corporate technology, customer relationship management, portfolio strategy, and roadmap development
• 3+ years of management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. corporate technology, applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards
• Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams
• Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects
• Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives
• Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions
• Experience with Kafka and Java application development and integration
• MBA
• Financial Services industry experience
• Finance or Actuarial Technology experience
• Experience in IT planning and business relationship management
• Experience working in a matrix management organization
• Experience with product development and management