Manager of Engineers with Web, video or financial solutions - Philadelphia, PA - Georgia IT Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
About the Job
Job Title : Manager of Engineers with Web, video or financial solutions
Location : Philadelphia, PA
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE $52/hr W2
Interview Process : Phone followed by Face to Face
Green Card, U.S Citizens
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Nice-to-Have:
Location : Philadelphia, PA
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE $52/hr W2
Interview Process : Phone followed by Face to Face
Green Card, U.S Citizens
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of operations engineers and scrum masters as the 'product owner' in our Agile operation, contributing to the creation of a massively scalable, highly available IP Video Platform
- Manage multiple projects and initiatives at the same time, with involvement through all phases of the SDLC ranging from architecture and design to testing to deployment and support
- Work closely with other product owners, staff and enterprise stakeholders to groom, prioritize, and execute sprint stories from the Backlog, ensuring the successful adoption of Agile.
- Facilitate the submission of well-defined user stories to Engineering by maintaining a dedicated backlog of Operational asks.
- Provide Ops & Engineering leadership with visibility into Backlog as well as sprint outcomes.
- Maintain a strategic view of your own product's long-term roadmap as well as those of other product owners to balance resource dependencies and create combined wins
- Assume accountability for your team's efficient incident management, leveraging failures to improve standard operating procedures and to communicate statistics relevant to guiding future design changes.
- Drive the maturation of ITIL fundamentals, e.g. root cause analyses and repeatable procedures.
- Ensure smooth communications with key stakeholders, e.g. Program, Product, Business.
- Negotiate and set annual goals with clear success criteria with each of your direct reports, supported by periodic meetings to track progress.
- Ask insightful questions and leverage team strengths to expose and resolve operational and architectural challenges for video programs.
- Revise processes and tools as needed to support your mission.
- Identify, communicate & manage dependencies, risks, & mitigation plans.
- Promote a collaborative environment that fosters creativity & innovation.
- Occasional travel for cross-team meetings.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years in managing teams of 10 or more engineers in an operational role
- Sufficient technical aptitude as well as the emotional intelligence required to achieve technical success quickly while also earning the trust and partnership of your team, peers and stakeholders
- 5-10 years in software, analytics or data driven business operations.
- 5 years developing or operating Web, video or financial solutions in an Agile environment
- 5 years proven track record delivering large-scale distributed systems in a complex ecosystem
- Excellent verbal and written communication and time management skills.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience in a highly accountable industry, e.g. finance and/or advertising operations.
- Prior education in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar fields a plus.
- Exposure to the tools and processes common to a CI/CD operation, e.g. build tools (Subversion, Git, GitHub, Maven) deploy tools (VMWare, Puppet), /dynamic languages (Groovy, Ruby, Python)
- Familiarity with TV & Web advertising tech is a plus, e.g. SCTE-35, SCTE-130, & VAST 2.0/3.0
Source : Georgia IT Inc.