Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science from a reputed institute/Advanced certification in technologies

Responsibilities

• Accountable for recruitment, development and retention of technical resources including career pathway development for all technical squad members.

• Accountable for defining and setting compensation, benefits, and promotions for all members of the relevant Chapter.

• Accountable for providing and applying effective performance management processes and mechanisms supporting squad leaders and product owners in increasing squad performance.

• Accountable for providing an inclusive environment where Chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure.

• Accountable owner and role model for applying the following values: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics into the Chapters ways of working and production of outcomes.

• Accountable for providing open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer within the Chapter.

• Accountable for ensuring engineering, design and testing standards and practices comply with Admiral IT governance and architectural standards while performing in a heavily regulated environment.

• Responsible for providing line management duties for all Squad technical members within the relevant Chapter with a view to focusing on coaching and mentoring techniques that align to both agile principles and Admiral values.

• Responsible for technical resource recruitment, retention and overall onboarding process for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter. 

• Responsible for supporting both personal and technical skills development for all Squad level technical members enabling greater Squad operational performance.

• Responsible for providing effective career development for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.

• Responsible for effectively administrating Chapter member’s compensation, benefits and promotion processes

• Responsible for enabling Squads to meet their expected outcomes by supporting them in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.

• Responsible for improving Squad performance by applying effective performance management controls leveraging input from relevant Squad Lead and Product Owners and providing corrective actions when necessary.

Responsible for identifying and teaching the required software and hardware engineering skills needed to support the development of high-quality code, components, systems, and solutions

• Responsible for supporting all Chapter members in living the following values in everything they do: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics

• Responsible for serving as a senior coach and advisor to Agile Squads. Remaining close enough to the Squads to add value and to be a competent manager, while staying far enough away to let them problem-solve on their own

• Responsible for supporting Squad Leads and Product Owners in knowledge transition between both Squads and the wider Organization by applying clear and concise communication

• Conducting regular 1 to 1s with technical staff members.

• Conducting annual performance reviews and coordinating personal development plans.

• Close relationship with Tribe leadership focusing on understanding the development needs of their people.

• Participate in quarterly Portfolio Sync and weekly Portfolio checkpoint sessions and support teams by helping them remove systemic impediments.

• Help protect teams from distractions and unrelated or unnecessary work.

• Work with Tribe Leadership to establish and monitor staffing needs channels.

Working Days: 5 Days a week

Mandatory Skills

• Extensive experience of delivering quality solutions as part of software development life cycle from requirements through to deployment.

• Extensive knowledge and experience with design & development of solutions for Guidewire Policy Centre & Billing Centre.

• Knowledge of identification and management of specific engineering, design and testing standards and practices that comply with internal organization IT governance and architectural standards while performing within a heavily regulated environment.

• Strong knowledge and experience with coding and engineering best practices.

• Experience with CI/CD and best practices.

• Knowledge and experience of Line management through both coaching and mentoring techniques

• Knowledge and experience in Scrum development practices, using associated tools for testing and continuous integration & deployment.

• These can be gained through the full stack of technologies relevant to achieving business value (Technical Analysis, UI Design, Integrations, Cloud Engineering, Testing, Deployment, etc.)

• Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev ops etc.

• Experience working and managing Agile Teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Cloud