Manager - Engineering Lead/ Development Lead @ Tally

Desired Candidate Profile

Designation : Engineering Manager

Function/Group : Engineering & Research

Experience : 9-14 yrs

What will you be doing?

Project Role

- Engineering lead will be assigned to a project and will play role of Development Lead of a module/component/ feature.

- They will be managing a team of SDE/SSDE. Engineering Leads are the acceptor/consumer of Design and Architecture and drives the construction part of product development.

- In this role, engineering Lead leads the sprint planning and coordinate across teams, sequencing/prioritizing, assignment of work, getting bottlenecks removed, getting clarifications resolved through own or sought detailing, getting prior work validated/accepted, future work understood.

- They are responsible to provide technical and project leadership through coaching and mentor ship.

- Engineering Lead needs to be hands on and should lead by example. In some cases, if required, Engineering leads are also expected to do coding/code design.

- Senior Engineering Leads are primarily responsible for leading a module / component / feature with their earlier experience and competency as Eng Lead, they are expected to handle more complex assignments and lead code design also.

Key Values :

- Understands the importance of coaching and mentoring the team

- Understands that spending quality time reviewing and monitoring team efforts and outputs is very critical for success

- Understands that team morale is important for success and therefore provides the right environment

- Understands that delegation of work will lead to increased productivity

Key areas, where time needs to be spent :

- Focus on making time available for team members

- Set clear goals and priorities for team

- Learn to identify areas of development of team and spend time to develop team in those areas

- Spend time in reviewing and monitoring progress and providing continuous feedback

- Reserve time to reflect and analyse

An Engineering Lead/Senior Engineering lead is expected to perform the following tasks.

As Dev Lead :

- Ability to understand design & architecture for the specified component/sub-system. Provide timely feedback about the feasibility of implementation.

- Drives project execution (IR) that includes the planning, execution and completion of key activities including Code Design, Coding, and test specification. Coordinate across teams, sequencing/prioritizing, getting bottlenecks removed, getting clarifications resolved through own or sought detailing, getting prior work validated/accepted, future work understood

- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by following prevailing practices regarding documentation, coding standards, development tools

- Plan, prioritize, assign, track work with team SDE/SSDE, this will include estimation of tasks, assignment, and continuous monitoring and support to team

- Track work progress and quality through efficient review & acceptance frameworks

- Understand Technical specifications and complete the assignments given with guidance

- Deliver high quality formally tested code

- Understand and use the overall development approach of the organization

- Create low level design (as part of code design) - flowcharts, layouts, sequence, interaction, class diagrams, charts

As People Manager/Mentor :

- Continuously drive engineering excellence within team as well as focus on individual also

- Trainings - Ensure each team member readiness to play assigned role in the team.

- Motivates team members and accesses their performance, Timely feedback

- Identify learning opportunity for team members and plan their non-project work

- Hiring, Training

Who are we looking for?

Technical Skills :

- Advanced programming and code design skills

- Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms

- Can write good quality modular code that is maintainable and extensible

- Clearly communicate the intent and approach when planning a particular sprint(s)

- Mentor and influence junior developers to adhere to good coding standards and become quality conscious

- Planning, Estimation Techniques

Behavioural Skills :

- Aptitude for excellence, Accuracy and attention to detail

- Teamwork skills, Result Orientated, Planning & Organizing

- Personal Learning & Development - Self-development skills to keep up to date with fast-changing trends, Ability to pick up new technologies rapidly

- Effective Communication and People Development/Leadership

Education:

UG:   Any Graduate - Any Specialization

PG:  Any Postgraduate - Any Specialization

Doctorate:  Doctorate Not Required

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Keyskills:   algorithms maintenance engineering management product development people management project execution project leadership people development programming data structures