SaaS Software Team Lead (Passion for Sports)

Job Title Duties and

• Responsible for ensuring that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution
• Serves as part of the senior staff, working in an interdisciplinary manner with their peers in other departments
• Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization
• Recruit world‐class engineering talent and participate in the process, including attracting, screening, and closing high-caliber candidates.
• Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture, and design
• Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management, and implementations
• Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices
• Build cross-department relationships centered on executing company strategy
• Solve complex software engineering tasks while maintaining coding standards and practices
• Communicate effectively with team members, internal and external customers
• Create, manage, and measure KPIs such as velocity, estimation accuracy, and defect percentages along with data accuracy
• Assure that the department achieves objectives and project completion within budget and time frame
• Assist in training new engineers by leading technical courses
• Work closely with the CEO, COO, and CTO on department-comprehensive initiatives  

Skills and Qualifications

• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Professional demeanor
• Works effectively in a team setting
• Works efficiently across distributed teams
• Aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize
• Manage several activities in parallel
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Able to translate customer and business needs to technical solutions
• The natural ability to be a champion for change

Job Benefits

Education and Experience

• 15+ years IT engineering leadership experience
• 5+ years experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions
• 3+ years working with a team of offshore engineers
• Experience with architectural design recommendation and guidance
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, delivery and maintenance of large-scale and high-performance platforms
• Knowledge of release management and CI/CD deployment workflow processes, from development release through production deployment
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members. Positive, can-do attitude and value of collaboration a must
• Experience with object-oriented code, .Net, C#, HTML, CSS, SQL NoSQL, DataLaking, Big Data, Server, Front End Web Development, API design, and implementation.
• Experience leading SaaS-based engineering organizations
• Technical expertise that enables meaningful conversations with product architects & engineers
• Deep knowledge and experience in developing Cloud-based SaaS solutions

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds at times