SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 15 years of experience in automation and software engineering.
• Proven leadership and mentoring experience in multicultural engineering environments.
• Expertise in automation platforms including:
• Dynamics 365 CE
• Azure PaaS

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the strategic direction of automation technologies and operating models.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Automation Architects, and SMEs to design customer-centric automation platforms.
• Engineer and build features that deliver customer value, setting standards and best practices across teams.
• Define and communicate technical vision and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Measure and improve team performance, mentoring colleagues and fostering engineering excellence.
• Develop and present business cases for platform upgrades to SLT, translating technical needs into business language.
• Maintain and manage the tech debt register, ensuring 20% of team capacity is allocated to resolving tech debt.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the design and development lifecycle.
• Lead cross-functional teams, promoting collaboration and alignment across disciplines.
• Assess team skill gaps and coordinate training/coaching to address development needs.
• Cultivate leadership within the team, ensuring succession planning and reducing single points of failure.
• Perform other duties as reasonably required by the role.