Lead Architect Developer Experience

In the role of Lead Engineer Developer Experience, you will be responsible for leading technical direction and implementation of software pipeline and observability platform. This platform is essential to the business, providing the tooling, practices, and expertise that our development engineering teams leverage to deliver, observe, and maintain the product suite.You will be responsible for ensuring that development teams have low friction, highly secure, highly available, cost-effective and consistent toolchain to deliver software within and effective tools to observe and operate that software in the framework of large enterprise compliance and governance needs.You will work closely with the Director Developer Experience, software development leadership, technical operations leadership, architecture, PMO and vendors from around the globe to deliver these services.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING Work with the Director Developer Experience to assess the needs of Software Engineering against current offerings Participate in and occasionally lead the daily, weekly, sprint cycle team ceremonies and ensure efficient activities of the team aligned to goals Provide mentoring to team members Assess and size effort associated with work backlog and participate in grooming Advise and inform a program of work to mature the developer experience Collaborate with an operations team to ensure highly available services and responsive respected developer support Interview and participate in building a team to establish a center of excellence and expertise in the Software Pipeline and Observability domains Participate in regular planning cycles to align business priorities to programs of work within your organization Inform recommendations, including resourcing, of strategic projects to mature and improve the software delivery pipeline Lead proofs of concepts, engineering, and implementation projects Deliver Managed Services that cover the following domains:oCode and Artifact RepositoriesoBuild, Test, and Deployment AutomationoSecrets ManagementoConfiguration Repository and ManagementoExecution BusoLog Collection and AnalysisoOperational MetricsoDistributed TracingoContainer Build Standards and AutomationoContinuous Delivery WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES) Background in both Systems and Software Engineering Competent developing software in 1 or more of Python, Golang, Ruby, Perl (implement defensive programming, error handling, testing frameworks) You should have experience in designing, automating and optimising services at scale (Secrets Management, Service Discovery) Abreast of industry standards and trends related to software pipelines and observability Experience implementing the CI/CD and observability toolchain at enterprise scale Previous experience of public clouds (AWS and Terraform) Knowledge and experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment Experience with automation tools (Chef, Ansible) Experience working in a remote team across multiple regions and time zones Incident managementYOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES) Autonomous and proactive. Passionate about the value of a streamlined software pipeline Passionate about providing greater transparency to health and status of systems Keenly empathetic to the day to day experience of software development teams A transparent communicator Deeply concerned with the security and compliance implications of your services and solutions Capable of delivering and accepting empathetic, constructive criticism with reports, peers, leadership and stakeholdersConscious of the developers need for speed of delivery and the enterprise need for governance and cost managemen