Technical Lead - Python

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently guide the technical direction and implementation by the whole team within defined architecture in all stages from conceptualization to deployment.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact to ensure the development of the right solution, with client success at the forefront.
• Create and lead the teams technical documentation and repository management practices, including tasks such as creating branches, pull requests, merges, etc.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to provide necessary oversight of architecture and dependencies influencing product strategy and direction.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and addressing complex bug fixes with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.

Be an active leader in the Engineering Practice community, mentoring Senior Engineers and others through Communities of Practice (CoPs) or on project teams, supporting the growth of technical capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 10+ years of web development experience, with proficiency in the following technologies:
• Python and Python frameworks
• Postgres
• SQL
• AWS
• Docker
• At least a working knowledge of frontend development (JS, CSS, HTML).
• Familiarity with the OAuth2 and OpenID Connect protocols.
• High level of English proficiency required to interact with a globally-based development team.
• Experience leading teams working in Agile software development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience following and adapting high-level architecture to project and client needs.
• Ability to verify/validate architecture implementations and influence overall architecture beyond the team.
• Expertise in applying object-oriented programming, with preferred experience in languages like Python.
• High-level design proficiency following UML / C4 / ArchiMate.
• Experience in effectively working collaboratively among relevant information stakeholders to create and implement well-tested, scalable, secure, and performant enterprise-level systems that ultimately deliver the clients desired business outcome.
• Demonstrated initiative in mentoring other engineers and decision-makers throughout the organization.
• Very good knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns, SOLID principles and OWASP.
• Additional Experience Desired:
• Experience integrating Customer Identity and Access Management solutions.
• Ability to set technical strategy and direct implementation across several teams/whole product.
• Ability to refine and clarify technical details (including definition of done) based on internal or external PO for User Stories and task assignments.
• Ability to provide technical orchestration among the overall tasks.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with non-relational databases.
• Knowledge of building Cloud Native applications.