• Experienced with agile development process and methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service providers, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management and container technologies.
• A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures, containers and serverless technologies
• Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling, DevOps, Networking and QA
• Proven experience with large scale distributed & cloud-based technologies such as Kubernetes, Hazelcast, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Containers, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop.
• Large-scale software/application development with coding experience in some of the following: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, PHP etc.
• Experience managing a team of onshore and offshore architects, developers, and analysts
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels.
• Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders
• Strong relationship management skills
• Solid business acumen
• Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation, and accountability.
• Fast learner on both technical and business side
• Strong customer centric mindset.
• Comfortable operating in a matrix setup
• Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.
• Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.
• Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Use technical expertise and visionary capabilities to ensure the Lyve cloud platform services are a key differentiator for Seagate, you will drive the engineering vision and strategy for how the platform is designed and delivered
• Manage teams' budget, advocate for the removal of technical debt, assist and support team effectiveness.
• Champion and effectively utilize Agile methodology and practices by partnering with aligned Architects and Product Owners to strive for elite engineering teams.
• Understand the business domain and product vision; in partnership with other team members to align the work of the team toward the shared goals for the product.
• Monitor team effectiveness, quality of work, and quickly address issues/performance affecting team productivity.
• Support team members in addressing or escalating issues to make the overall team more efficient.
• Remove roadblocks and obstacles; manage interdependencies when needed.
• Initiate and foster collaborative partnerships with current and potential customers, technology and business managers, vendors, and technology executives; develops relationships that support increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Coach and evaluate the performance and quality of work delivered by team members, create a motivating and respectful work environment for teams, and ensure that your team is constantly learning and delivering quality code while driving cross-functional alignment with other parts of Lyve organization.
• Provide relevant technical coaching and support to team members. Hires talent and actively engages in recruiting processes.
• Participate in the development of business and/or technology vision, strategies, critical success factors, and operating plans for application, unit, or platform.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, assess their needs, and be able to build an effective organization.
• Ability to drive career development, creating an environment in which engineers can grow appropriately in a challenging technical area.
• Ability to lead an organization to ambitious standards of metrics-validated engineering excellence.
• Excellent product sensibility, with the capability to drive key product innovations or opportunities. Education and Experience
• You should have hands-on senior leadership experience, and a strong belief in transparency and accountability. You have hands-on experience that has fueled your knowledge and experience on your journey into leadership. You have experience hiring and developing the skills and talents of others
• Experience managing and establishing automated controls for 3rd party audits (SOX, SOC-II, etc)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices
• Experience implementing software delivery process such as Agile across multiple teams or organizations
• Strong track record of delivering results and are able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities with various business stakeholders
• Experience leading Architecture/Principal level engineers
• Experience leading cloud cost optimization efforts
• Experience leading cloud security architects and compliance efforts efficiently
• Lead a complex cloud infrastructure organization supporting core products, recent acquisitions, and legacy infrastructure systems
• Lead by example to establish a culture of technical expertise and operational accountability
• Sponsor and support cloud governance initiatives, establishing standards, cost monitoring, and security/compliance efforts
• Identify and prioritize technical initiatives to align and integrate with business goals
• Add transparency mechanisms for stakeholders into the priorities and activities of our Cloud organization
• Solicit requirements from collaborators and foster excellent communication with stakeholders
• Hire, coach, and manage diverse teams with varying skill sets and experience
• Establish training standards and performance expectations for leaders and individual contributors
