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Tech Tribe Lead, Digital Healthcare

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Tribe Tech Lead is the Senior IT expert leading the engineering craft, capacity management, coordination, and technology roadmap delivery of all technology related work within the Tribe. The lead provides leadership to all senior IT professionals, and this role provides technical expertise within their business domain, including management of engineering competences needed to deliver & support business solutions efficiently. 

Drives engineering practices, tooling, and craft towards best-in-class DevOps; ensures tech dependencies across squads and tribes are visible and squads own coordination of their work

100% dedicated role to lead engineering competency & practices within a Tribe, and to support the Tribe Lead in realization of business objectives (whether dual-hat or not).

The Tech Tribe Lead, Digital Healthcare will report to the Director IT

RESPONSIBILITIES

Create & Safeguard Engineering Culture & Practices

  • Participate in planning, definition and high-level design of solutions; explore software solution alternatives, assist Squads to identify the right technologies and ensure sound architectural decisions.
  • Work with CL and / or squad members to ensure support model is considered and modelled as part of the design process.
  • Support squads in adhering to architecture & engineering governance and control processes.

Drive Engineering (Devops) Maturity

  • Drive an engineering culture of continuous improvement (CI) based on data, e.g. IT Performance metrics.
  • Manage cross-tribe technological interdependencies.
  • Support squads during release preparation and planning.
  • Ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to the tribe.

Manage Expectations Of All Stakeholders

  • Management of Exco and TL peers / equivalents

Develop People & Craft

  • Determine the necessary technology competencies for Squads together with the Tribe Lead, TO and IT Chapter Leads
  • Support the embedding of IT performance metrics to help squad members understand how they drive overall tribe performance.
  • Drive architecture, competences, and tooling to enable Cl/CD
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QUALIFICATIONS

  • Has background in IT Execution, with hands-on experience in programming, and with CI/CD, who understands modern architecture patterns, the digital technology space, and is capable of simplifying and decoupling legacy systems. Also familiar with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
  • Seen as an expert of the tech landscape in the business domain.
  • Helps squads managing tech dependencies across IT landscape.
  • Optimizing flow; owning Cl improvement items that impact flow of work inside and outside the squad.
  • Enterprise-awareness in critical thinking, problem solving and decision making on technical solutions (i.e. thinks beyond own area)
  • Leads workshops, leverages others to identify technical risks & relentlessly mitigates these by delivering the ‘tough stuff’ early.
  • Bridges the gap between business strategy to technical solutions.
  • Supports & coaches business decision makers (e.g. Tribe Lead) with technology considerations, with clearing the way’ mentality.
  • Encourages good design, refactoring and tech. debt elimination.
  • Takes ownership to push identification and evaluation of best technical solutions, however, not taking accountability from squads.
  • Has a clear vision regarding up and coming trends and capabilities that can create competitive advantage for the organization.

Machine Learning Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the MLOps Chapter Lead, the position holder will design, build, deliver and/or optimize machine learning systems. This entails performing statistical analysis to resolve data problems and enhancing model accuracy and performance. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design, architect and build solutions and tools for the big data platform.
  • Mediate and coordinates resolution of software project deliverables using agile methodologies.
  • Develop pipelines to ingest data into the big data platform based on business demands and use cases.
  • Develop analytical platforms that will be used to avail data to end users for exploration, advanced analytics and visualizations for day-to-day business reporting.
  • Provide guidance and advise to technology teams on the best use of latest technologies and designs to deliver a best-in-class platform in the most cost-effective way.
  • Develop automated monitoring solutions to be handed over to support teams to run and operate the platform efficiently.
  • Automate and productionize data science models on the big data engineering platform.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS or MS in computer science or equivalent practical experience
  • At least 3 years of coding experience in a non-university setting.
  • Experience in Object Oriented programing.
  • Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
  • Experience in collecting, storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data.
  • Experience with building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Storm or Spark-Streaming
  • Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Experience with NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB

Tech Tribe Lead, Public Sector Financial Digitization

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Tech Tribe Lead is the Senior IT expert leading the engineering craft, capacity management, coordination, and technology roadmap delivery of all technology related work within the Tribe. The lead provides leadership to all senior IT professionals and.  This role provides technical expertise within their business domain, including management of engineering competences needed to deliver & support business solutions efficiently. 

Drives engineering practices, tooling, and craft towards best-in-class DevOps; ensures tech dependencies across squads and tribes are visible and squads own coordination of their work

100% dedicated role to lead engineering competency & practices within a Tribe, and to support the Tribe Lead in realization of business objectives (whether dual-hat or not).

The Tech Tribe Lead, Public Sector Financial Digitization, will report to the Director IT.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Create & Safeguard Engineering Culture & Practices

  • Participate in planning, definition and high-level design of solutions; explore software solution alternatives, assist Squads to identify the right technologies and ensure sound architectural decisions
  • Work with CL and / or squad members to ensure support model is considered and modelled as part of the design process
  • Support squads in adhering to architecture & engineering governance and control processes.

Drive Engineering (Devops) Maturity

  • Drive an engineering culture of continuous improvement (CI) based on data, e.g. IT Performance metrics.
  • Manage cross-tribe technological interdependencies
  • Support squads during release preparation and planning
  • Ensure technical debt and associated impacts are visible to the tribe.

Manage Expectations Of All Stakeholders

  • Management of Exco and TL peers / equivalents

Develop People & Craft

  • Determine the necessary technology competencies for Squads together with the Tribe Lead, TO and IT Chapter Leads
  • Support the embedding of IT performance metrics to help squad members understand how they drive overall tribe performance.
  • Drive architecture, competences, and tooling to enable Cl/CD

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Has background in IT Execution, with hands-on experience in programming, and with CI/CD, who understands modern architecture patterns, the digital technology space, and is capable of simplifying and decoupling legacy systems. Also familiar with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
  • Seen as an expert of the tech landscape in the business domain
  • Helps squads managing tech dependencies across IT landscape
  • Optimizing flow; owning Cl improvement items that impact flow of work inside and outside the squad
  • Enterprise-awareness in critical thinking, problem solving and decision making on technical solutions (i.e. thinks beyond own area)
  • Leads workshops, leverages others to identify technical risks & relentlessly mitigates these by delivering the ‘tough stuff’ early
  • Bridges the gap between business strategy to technical solutions
  • Supports & coaches business decision makers (e.g. Tribe Lead) with technology considerations, with clearing the way’ mentality
  • Encourages good design, refactoring and tech. debt elimination
  • Takes ownership to push identification and evaluation of best technical solutions, however, not taking accountability from squads
  • Has a clear vision regarding up and coming trends and capabilities that can create competitive advantage for the organization

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