Head of Engineering – IAM
We are looking for a highly technical Head of Engineering with strong people management and leadership skills to help us to establish our company as a world leader in identity access management.
The Head of Engineering will work with the company’s Founders to define tech strategy and growth to achieve long-term objectives in the product, innovation, and company culture. We want you to establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of the company’s technological development.
- Lead Cymmetri Identity & Access Development teams & provide support and vision to achieve business goals.
- Work in coordination with current engineering team to execute the product roadmap and deliver organization objectives.
- Has complete engineering ownership of and directs all aspects of engineering activities and projects.
- Provide leadership in leading cross-products teams, planning, negotiating and reporting on multiple project developments.
- Inspire, support and mentor a team of engineers to produce delivery excellence.
- Manages an Agile Development process in a continuous integration and deployment methodology.
- Collaborate closely with product management and services team to deliver solutions that satisfy customer experience, business, and technology goals.
- Endorse, encourage & enable rapid innovation and new product development.
- Use judgment based on business needs to prioritize between features, architectural improvements, and operational excellence. Engage with teams to communicate and agree on priorities.
- Stay on top of customer preferences, technology trends, and market demand.
- Lead the organization through change, evolution, and growth.
- Create an open, transparent, accountable and collaborative team environment.
- Develops and established operational policies within area managed.
- Actively involved in hiring and developing team of passionate engineers.
- Leads the planning, budgeting, monitoring and controlling costs, methods, and staffing for these areas/groups.
- Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
· Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.
· Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
· Experience with cloud technologies, SaaS, PaaS & IaaS
- 10+ years of experience in software development (Java , Spring . Microservices,React,Pythion,Go) and software engineering, or demonstrable equivalent expertise
- Demonstrable knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols, and common understanding of data protection techniques.
- Deep knowledge of services, security and a strong engineering and development skillset.
- Minimum 3 years leadership as a senior engineer manager, with experience in handling team size of around 10+ engineers, hiring, scaling the organization and building long-term career development plans for team members at all levels.
- Ability to lead and contribute to technical discussion and troubleshooting as required.
- Proven ability to make decisions and perform complex problem-solving activities under pressure.
- Knowledge of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
Language And Interpersonal Skills
- Must possess exceptional communication skills – presentations, written and verbal
- Flexibility to work outside of normal business hours to collaborate with remote teams.
- Proven ability to work independently on assigned tasks.