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Head of Engineering

1.00 to 10.00 Years   Al Ain, United Arab Emirates   06 Jul, 2022
Job LocationAl Ain, United Arab Emirates
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IndustryOther Business Support Services
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Job Description

Head of EngineeringJob DetailsDivisionTechnologyReporting ManagerCTOJob LocationAbu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesReporting ManagerCTOJob PurposeTechnology and Product division partner to deliver effective and impactful solutions to Alef?s customers. The HoE will be working closely with teams and utilize the latest cloud and digital technologies to make rapid and meaningful improvements. Keeping a relentless focus on user needs, you will make the ALEF systems easier to use and help teams do the things they need to do. As an Alef HoE, you will oversee the creation and maintenance of the companys products and be responsible for managing multiple cross functional feature development teams.Key ResponsibilitiesLeading and managing development team

  • Provide Hands-on technical leadership, in development, operation and improvement of services.
  • Work closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles.
  • Lead coordination with designers to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.
  • Set clear ends (goals/ objectives) without providing instructions on micro level (without stepping on their toes or stifling their creativity)
Managing internal and external stakeholders
  • Lead, Manage and provide guidance to the development team.
  • Identifying value from the customers point of view and prioritize work accordingly.
  • Mentor and train developers and technical architects in a non-line management capacity.
  • Work with product managers to understand user needs for new/existing services.
  • Work with teams breaking technical requirements down, identify API requirements for integration with internal/external systems.
Provide Technical authority
  • Drive meetings with other departments, evaluate technical proposals from suppliers, implementation recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Follow Clean Code/Solid principles - Uncle Bob aka Robert C Martin
  • Lead development of user-driven prototypes, identify technical options/inform architectural approaches, working with team members to write tests, code, and documentation for new/existing systems.
  • Proactively advice on best practices.
  • Assist in the budgeting process.
  • Provides input to the cost and pricing models
Education, Experience and Required SkillsEducation? Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferredExperience
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in a direct or relevant field
  • Experience in EdTech or Education domain is a plus
  • Experience mentoring or helping colleagues optimize their code.
  • Experience of developing product and technology roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and of writing user stories, i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories.
  • Experience organizing and performing prototyping and proof of concepts.
  • Building and scaling high-traffic websites and/or high volume. transaction processing and analysis platforms.
  • Experience of developing product roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and of writing user stories, i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories.
  • Experience presenting work at user groups, business and to peers.
  • Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
Essential SkillsTechnical Skills Required (advance)? Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex software systems, i.e. is an active software developer currently engaged in architecting and building high-volume digital services.? System administration and configuration management skills.? Other JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, etc).? Other NoSQL databases such Neo4J, Cassandra, Redis, etc.? Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable, and clear code.One of:
  • Java 8, Spring, JavaScript.
  • Scala, Akka, Play, Lagom, Spray
  • MEAN Stack, NodeJs, MongoDB, Angular/React
  • LAMP Stack, Python, Django, Flask
  • Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Sinatra
  • Micro services, Rest.
  • Messaging (One of RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka or any such others).
  • Mocking (any of the following Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Spock, ScalaTest, RSpec, Jasmine, Mocha).
  • IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
  • Build tools (Any of SBT, Gradle, Maven, Rake, NPM, WebPack/Gulp).
  • SQL Database (One of Oracle, MS SQL Server or Postgres).
  • IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
  • Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
  • SQL Database (One of Oracle, MS SQL Server or Postgres).
  • Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
  • NoSQL MongoDB.
  • Detailed understanding and experience of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS).
  • Working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
  • Knowledge of the git version control system.
Leadership and Operational Skills Required
  • Have strong skills in web, API, micro services development and want to work with multidisciplinary agile teams of developers, designers and researchers focused on products.
  • Ability to design, plan, execute and make tradeoffs according to business needs, time constraints, resource constraints, budget constraints.
  • Urge to coach and help others grow and move to the next level.
  • Ability to identify impediments, blockers and remove them without introducing further conflicts.
  • Open to being challenged, admitting mistakes/ weaknesses, and exchanging opinion.
  • Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to/working with stakeholders at every level of seniority.
  • Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to / working with stakeholders at every level of seniority.
  • Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary architecture approach to software architecture.
  • Knowledge of Agile product management, in particular determination of vision, objectives, goals, and success criteria.
  • Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behavior and performance (any of Selenium, Geb, Wiremock, Jmeter, Gatling, Sauce Labs).
  • Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
  • Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design.
  • Deep knowledge of accessibility standards and developing web products that can be used easily by users with a range of assistive technology needs.
  • Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.

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