POSITION SUMMARY: As a Team Leader – IT Software Engineering, you will lead a software engineering team responsible for the development and support of strategic cloud-based applications and services. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and delivery ownership to ensure high-quality software solutions aligned with business and organizational objectives
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Drive execution of software development activities, ensuring delivery commitments, quality standards, and business objectives are achieved.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define requirements, priorities, and technical solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance and contribute to software development activities when required.
- Provide technical leadership for the design, development, and deployment of applications utilizing Vue.js, Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
- Promote engineering excellence through the adoption of CI/CD, DevOps practices, automated testing, and code quality standards.
- Foster a positive team culture and high-performance environment.
- Lead production support, incident management, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure operational excellence.
- Escalate risks and issues appropriately and ensure alignment with leadership.
- Work with Human Resources to address employee relations issues as needed.
- Support and participate in performance evaluation processes, including reviews and feedback with manager guidance.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, including a minimum of 3 years leading and managing software engineering teams.
- Hands-on technical expertise with the ability to evaluate and refine technical decisions and contribute to software development when required.
- Demonstrated strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Positive, detail-oriented, organized, team-oriented, and self-motivated, with strong problem-solving, prioritization, and leadership skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment developing customized technology for Garmin's development portal.
- Experience with Python development and cloud infrastructure technologies is preferred.
