.Who we areThe Workshop is a tech company that develops intuitive software for the online gaming industry. Our motto is to move "Fearlessly Forward" together. Cooperative innovation is at the center of everything we do - from our games, new products and technologies, to how we collaborate and share inspiration with one another.What we believeWe understand that great ideas come from great people, and great people thrive when they're trusted to challenge, change, improve, and perfect our products and processes. Our forte lies in the diversity of our skills - and that comes from the diversity of our people.Your missionYou will be responsible for managing the delivery of multiple delivery streams, overseeing the team in areas such as quality, delivery schedule, risk mitigation, resource planning and overall productivity. We are looking for an individual who is capable of planning, executing and managing all aspects of a product life cycle across highly skilled teams. Someone who is comfortable talking about the latest trends in Data and seeing how these fit into the bigger picture of current and future platform architectural initiatives. They should also be comfortable acting as a mentor and coach to their team, promoting high standards of engineering principles. You will also contribute to the strategy of the team across all disciplines including delivery methodology, performance, security, continuous delivery and operational support.What you'll doProvide day-to-day leadership and direction to the engineering teams to deliver the Product and Engineering Roadmap and own the technical transformation.Define and execute engineering plans, manage scheduling and resource allocation ensuring alignment to business priorities and architectural strategy.Help decide the architectural solution for any given problem statement based on engineering advice, product direction and business standards.Balance product delivery with innovation, technical and process improvements allowing for agility and predictability.Pro-actively drive and enforce the SDLC process, establishing processes and procedures for handling change.Identify and develop mitigation/contingency plans and facilitate the risk management process.Manage hiring, retention and career development of the engineering teams ensuring a consistently high-performing well-balanced talent pool is maintained.Represent the engineering teams to senior management and stakeholders.Work with the team to define standards and team OKRs, in line with the company.Enforce clean code and other good programming practices, providing continuous improvement feedback.Coach and mentor employees through example, advice and correction; help them to expand their capacity and the capacity of their teams and to develop their career paths.Work with external partners to ensure deliverables are defined and delivered successfully.Own our Software data engineering solutions, both current and future.Operate as a role model at all times
