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Our client is a company dedicated to providing secure and advanced technology, founded on research and experience, to meet modern-day electoral challenges.
With an eye toward the future, we drive the digital transformation and modernization of elections and decision-making processes by delivering outstanding solutions that are secure, transparent, and accessible.
Description
The Technical Manager is the owner of the technical aspects of a group of projects. Reporting to the Client Services Director and liaising with the Project Manager or Product owner in charge of any given project, the Technical Manager is co-responsible with other Technical Managers and Technical Leads of being successful on meeting technical project delivery milestones and engineering expectations regarding scope, time, costs and quality.
Delivery on time is paramount, so the Technical Manager needs to create an environment where shared teams can be agile and assess and act on any situation with the objective of compliance with the delivery plan.
Responsibilities
- Evangelizes : researches, creates proofs of concept and introduces new technologies to the team.
- Evolves : evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its SLAs.
- Manages : manages the team members' career, expectations, performance and level of happiness.
- Defines : defines the right processes for the team's maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
- Multiple Teams : makes an impact not only on the whole team but also on other teams.
- Opportunities Support : Works closely with Solutions Unit department to make offers and answer tenders.
- Direct responsible for the delivery of a group of projects, including :
- Effective Team Management based on skills, project knowledge and career planning.
- Effective suppliers’ management including managing off-shore teams.
- Appropriately plan capacity and escalate capacity needs that go beyond what has been allocated for his projects to both the Client Services Director and the Project Manager or Product Owner.
- Deliver at scope, costs and time, or scale otherwise. Provide the software development effort estimates to the Project Manager or Product Owner.
- Identify and escalate technical risks to the Project Manager.
- Direct technical contact for the customer
- Responsible for the project methodology implementation, ensuring it is properly followed according to the departmental guidelines :
- Perform and act upon project retrospectives (post-mortems).
- Ensure that project and team methodologies are compatible.
- Gather impediment reporting from Team Leads and provide solutions for project-related ones.
- Implementation of project-level post-mortem improvements.
As a Technical Manager the candidate will be focused on :
- Successful delivery of the Projects.
- Successful management of the Customers.
- Headcount planning and Hiring interviews participation.
- Objectives, performance and Feedback.
- One on Ones.
- Participation in technical decisions.
- Cascading communications.
- Team building activities and culture.
- Team protection and happiness.
- Team productivity and metrics.
- Alignment with other Technical Managers.
- Hands on coding 0% to 30% of the time.
- System roadmap.
- Development process.
- Team visibility and recognition.
- Ability to act as tech lead when required.
- English advanced user, both spoken and written. C1 level required.
- French is highly valued. B2 level or above.
- Ability to travel to participate in software deployment, sometimes upon short notice.
- University degree in computer science, or equivalent level.
- At least 3 years in a similar position.
- Deep knowledge of Java ecosystem and tools : Spring Framework, Hibernate, maven, eclipse.
- Knowledge of VueJS.
- Knowledge of QA processes and tools.
- Knowledge of data access applications development (No SQL, SQL, JDBC). Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL is preferred.
- Proven experience managing high-skilled teams.
- Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure )
- Experience in multiplatform development (Linux, UNIX, Windows).
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer or QA Engineer.
- Experience working with open-source tools, libraries and products.
Nice to have
- Agile and Team coaching skills.
- Experience in Database design.
- Knowledge of Design Patterns.
- Knowledge of Tomcat, Glassfish, or other J2EE containers.
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails
- Knowledge in devops and SER (Site Reliability Engineering) : Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Argo, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus.
- Knowledge of PMP, PMI, Prince 2, Scrum or other PM + development methodology.
- Knowledge of cryptograph (PKI, PKCS).
- Knowledge of .Net will be advantageous.
- Consulting experience will be well valuated.
Benefits & Perks
- International working environment.
- Creative and results focused team.
- Great office in Barcelona center.
- Free fruit and coffee at the office.
- Private Health Insurance.
- Free language classes.
- Flexible compensation plan.
- Flexible working hours and remote work from home policy.
- Vacation : 23 working days per year, accrued monthly.
- 1 paid day for the birthday, to be taken during the same month.
