Acting as a Chapter Lead

As a Chapter Lead, you are responsible to hire, coach, and motivate team members of your chapter in order to build a group of talented software and test engineers that can deliver value in their squads. This activity is expected to take up to 50% of your time and includes:

• Select and recruit squad members with skills to meet projected demand and to have qualified, competent and motivated chapter members.
• Work with the Product Owners and the Engineering Lead to organise the chapter member assignment in squads.
• Coach chapter members on best practices and software design patterns to use in their respective products.
• Ensure transversal consistency of knowledge for functional (software component design and usage), and technology areas (e.g. C++, Java, Python, PLSQL, cryptography, middleware, databases), create a culture of excellence and continuous learning and ensures professional growth of chapter members
• Set up knowledge sharing between chapter members and participate in cross-tribe knowledge sharing.
• Develop and design and development programs to fill identified gaps.
• Maintain deep understanding of current technology, database management, programming practices, and future trends through ongoing education, conference attendance and industry press.
• Build a network within and outside the Chapter, maintains relationships with all relevant stakeholders and makes sure they are consulted and informed when needed.
• Ensure chapter members understand the relevant IT policies and standards to apply in their domain.
• Set annual objectives and conduct mid-year review and year-end performance appraisal of chapter members.
• Orchestrate the feedback collection from Product Owner, Agile Coach, Squad members, and stakeholders to assess development needs and agree on skills development goals for chapter members.
• Perform administrative reviews and approvals for chapter members (e.g. holiday requests, travel requests, on-call premiums, mandatory certifications, and expense reports).

Acting as a squad member

As a squad contributor, a portion of your time/capacity must be spent collaborating with your squad and chapter to achieve the key objectives and results at either squad or tribe level.

Illustrative for engineering CL’s, Your individual contribution can encompass following activities (but not limited to):

• Work closely with Squad Product Owner and other squad members to deliver the squad objectives
• Participate in all squad meetings, solution, testcases reviews as a squad member
• Application design, coding and peer code review, testing and test automation
• Technical POCs ; Feasibility study including generating reports
• Production & Customer Support case investigations
• Implement and maintain DevOps enablers: CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins
• Functional & non-functional testing
• System integration and qualification
• Test automation
• help with COTS upgrades
• DB design, sizing and performance analysis, benchmarking (define test case, execution, reporting)
• Security review (e.g. GSR), design and implementation (e.g. config of certificates, encryption …) liaising with GS
• Audit item and security risk follow up and Controls/compliance implementation/remediation
• production problem investigation, provide COE support
• Participate in on-call support rotation for Production issues and problems   
• Depending on the expertise, act as a senior expert within the squad to mentor and train new squad members

Education

University degree in computer science or related field

Experience

10+ years experience in systems development; with 5+ years exposure to the team leader role.

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Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.