TECHNICAL ENGINEERIG MANAGER-VACANCY AT ENGIE ENERGY ACCESS

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate lead engineer and inspiring manager to shape the evolution of our IOT and telecom integration system as well as line manage a team of 5-7 software engineers. As a key member of the digital team, this role will help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.

Responsibilities

• Define software engineering strategy and architecture with other leaders, fully responsible for the technical evolution of at least one software product.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest technology trends and tools to ensure EEA software competitiveness.
• Actively participate and understand the ROI of engineering efforts, understand the value creation and the priorities of the business.
• Develop and own complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
  • Establishing clarity on business objectives for proper modeling of business processes.
  • Represent the technical team or assign someone to stakeholder conversations.
  • Ensure correct implementation and understanding of business logic in the team.
• Put an efficient development process in place with tools and metrics to stay on top of the performance of the team.
  • Work closely with the Product Manager for resource planning and proper estimation
  • Ensure agile processes and other best practices are properly implemented.
• Architectural evolution and tech debt management:
  • Code quality, compliance, and documentation
  • System performance at scale, reliability, observability, and high availability
  • System security compliance
• Line management of 5-7 software engineers
  • Grow and develop individual software engineers, set goals, and evaluate performance.
  • Recruit and hire software engineers including interns and freelancers.
  • Drive team culture.
  • Contract management with external developers in collaboration with the Head of Software Engineering.

We Believe that Great Managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions that contribute to the successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader, you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader, you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Qualification

• Entrepreneurial and forward-thinking with the ability to recognize the impact of technology in business.
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• At least 6 years of relevant experience, with 2 years of leading a software team of size 4-7.
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in a cloud context:  distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, and clustering.
• Good experience in high availability, observability, and structured logging
• Web and application server (for Python and ruby web apps) management experience (Linux, MySQL, Systemd, Apache, Nginx, etc)
• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring
• Software deployment pipelines and best practices (CI/CD)
• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms, operating systems, and solid computer science fundamentals.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired Skills:

• Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
• Knowledge of key components and dependencies used in the current system: ActiveAdmin, Grape, Sidekiq, Rspec, Searchd.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration is a strong advantage.
• Good knowledge of web application security
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, and Lambda functions.
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• Experience with Git and GitLab-based source code management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant Engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria.

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