Chief Engineer

Caution: The work style of this position is hybrid working, and it is not possible to work at home all the time.

Principal responsibilities

• Evangelize and influence engineering best practices within BBD and with the wider engineering community
• Own and evolve the strategy of the Practice Family within BBD
• Own the governance around standards and tooling across BBD
• Collaborate with Platform Leads to define missing standards
• Support the Platform Leads to drive standards and tools across engineering pods
• Align approaches with the other Engineering Practices within the organisation
• Define metrics and monitor efficiencies of the BBD Family initiatives
• Help address skill gaps in engineering pods by providing upskilling / training opportunities
• Support the Platform Leads to identify solutions to engineering gaps / challenges
• Facilitate development of cross-functional capabilities to address common gaps / challenges
• Help remove blockers on adoption of Engineering initiatives
• Evangelize good solutions achieved within platforms / pods with the wider engineering community
• Promote the culture of We build and we maintain
• Promote re-use rather than re-invent

Communication & Leadership

• Takes accountability and responsibility without the need to defer to an Architect or "the process"
• Can communicate with code
• Values team success over individual success
• Continuously strives to improves themselves and their team
• Communicates ideas succinctly with the ability to communicate the technical big picture vision, strategy, and direction
• Spreads awareness between various levels of structure via effective communication and collaboration

Requirements

• Able to work under their own initiative
• Able to provide direction for others when appropriate
• A clear communicator with natural conversationalist
• Able to translate tech talk for a non tech audience
• Able to encourage participation and grow / lead discussions
• Has had experience of presenting to medium / large audiences (50+)
• Able to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders
• Able to listen and evaluate input from a diverse source and identify appropriate next steps

Technical Skill

• Is tech-forward in thinking, actively researching new ideas / processes and is the driving force to adopt them
• Is a generalist with the breadth and depth of experience in CICD best practices and has core experience in one of the following areas: Software Development.
• Secure coding / SDLC / API development / clean code management) Testing (ie. TDD / BDD / Automated testing / Contract testing / API testing) Site Reliability Engineering

Release engineering / Observability / Risk management

• Can apply their thinking to many problems across multiple technical domains
• Demonstrates mastery of their technical discipline
• Contributes to architectural discussions by asking the right questions to ensure a solution matches the business needs