Developer Experience Team Leader (3)
Job description
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We know there are hundred ways for you to grow. With us, you will expand your skills in a multicultural, challenging, and dynamic environment.
Dare to join Edenred and get ready to thrive in a global company that will offer you endless opportunities.
Edenred is all about meritocracy. You come as you are, and you contribute. Indeed, the Edenred Group recognizes, recruits and develops all talents and singularities.
We are committed to preventing all forms of discrimination and to providing all our candidates with equal opportunities regardless of their gender and gender expression, disability, origin, religious belief and sexual orientation or any other criteria.
The Edenred Digital Center (EDC) in Bucharest, Romania is Edenred Group's largest Digital hub for strategic Tech projects.
Context/ ROLE
We are seeking a highly motivated Developer Experience Team Leader to join our Global Technology Architecture department. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing, modernizing and standardizing our developer experience toolset.
The capability vision in this area:
To make developers more autonomous via self-service environment provisioning
To offer preconfigured development environments with essential tools and libraries
To streamline code management and collaboration
To automate build and deployment across environments
To provide observability tools (tracing, logging and monitoring) to diagnose issues quickly
To integrate security best practices with tools for code scanning, vulnerability assessment and secrets management
To drive engineering efficiency through engineering metrics including DORA metrics
You will lead a small team of engineers responsible for making this vision a reality by implementing tools, standardizing patterns for their sustainable adoption and evangelizing that adoption throughout the org.
This leadership role requires strong technical expertise, coupled with exceptional communication and collaboration skills to foster developer adoption and ensure the new toolset aligns with the needs of our developers. The mission is to contribute to safe, secure and rapid delivery of value to our users by enabling a more productive and compelling developer experience.
Position Scope & Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership
- Lead a team of Engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining modern internal development platform.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, motivating and mentoring team members towards professional development.
- Delegate tasks effectively, ensuring project timelines and deliverables are met.
- Conduct performance reviews and provide career development opportunities for team members.
Modernization and Standardization
- Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for modernizing and standardizing the developer experience toolchain and practices across the organization.
- Work with the organization to define the right tools to standardize on
- Define best practices and efficient adoption patterns for the chosen tools, ensuring widespread developer uptake.
- Design and develop an internal developer platform (IDP) that provides developers with self-service access to tools, resources, and infrastructure.
- Evangelize, promote and drive implementation of the DevEx toolchain across various development projects, while remaining open and responsive to feedback
Vendor Management
- Foster healthy partner relationships with DevEx tool vendors.
- Evaluate and select tools that best suit the organization's needs.
- Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships to ensure ongoing support and integration.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest technology trends in DevEx, identifying new tools and solutions that can benefit the developer organization.
Developer Evangelism
- Develop a comprehensive developer outreach and communication strategy to promote the DevEx tools and practices.
- Collaborate with development teams across the organization to understand their needs and pain points and reflect these back into roadmap thinking.
- Deliver training sessions and workshops to educate developers on the benefits and functionalities of the new toolset.
- Actively solicit feedback from developers and continuously iterate on the toolset based on their inputs.
- Champion developer experience by ensuring DevEx practices are efficient and user-friendly.
Measuring Engineering Efficiency
- Implement and track DORA metrics to measure and improve engineering efficiency.
- Analyze engineering data to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the development lifecycle.
- Develop and implement strategies to continuously optimize developer workflows and reduce delivery times.
Additional Responsibilities
- Stay abreast of the latest trends and best practices in Developer experience, internal development platforms, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, observability, and testing automation.
- Collaborate with other teams within Technology, including Architecture, Security, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure Management.
- Document processes and procedures for platform engineering and DevOps practices.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to optimize platform performance and developer productivity.
Knowledge and SKILLS
As a Developer Experience Team Leader, you will have to demonstrate:
Minimum 5+ years of experience in Software and/or Platform Engineering, with deep exposure to and passion for DevEx tools
Strong knowledge of the Azure (and ideally also AWS) public cloud, from the perspective of DevEx tooling and software engineering productivity.
Proven track record of leading and motivating high-performing engineering teams.
Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Strong understanding of observability principles and experience with monitoring and logging tools.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
Ability to effectively manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize tasks.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Passion for developer experience and a desire to empower development teams.
Nice to have:
Familiarity with security testing automation tools and practices.
Experience in designing and developing internal developer platforms.
Experience working in a large, fast-paced fintech environment.
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
VIBE WITH US
Joining us means:
- Taking part in an ambitious corporate project
- Becoming part of a team that embraced the digitalization challenge and enjoys this transformation every day
- Living our values every day: passions for customers, respect, imagination, simplicity, entrepreneurial spirit.
Because:
- You will greatly contribute to build the project that will improve the customers’ experience on an international level
- You will get exposure to various global cultures and teams
- You will be working with the newest technologies to build new platforms
- We offer you a very pleasant working environment, in the heart of Bucharest
- We also have for you: meal tickets, holiday vouchers, health subscription, flexible hours, work from home, flexible benefits system, on-the-job training & e-learning platforms.
And we do not stop here!
Apply now and Vibe with Us!
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Presentations
- Team Leadership
- Analytical Thinking
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