Partners with team members to increase software skills, system understanding, and design thinking to create high performing teams. Embeds in teams or engages across teams to accomplish business objectives using the intentional architecture. Influences and collaborates with other towers and shared services within GM Financial and works directly with external vendors to achieve business results. Researches and champions the implementation of new tools and approaches that benefit the organization. The Lead understands cloud technologies and how best to employ them; and assists other team members to speed the implementation. Champions Agile and DevOps to continuously improve product quality, time to market, and team member happiness. Invests in automated testing and automated pipelines to deploy constantly (multiple times per sprint). Maintains a production-first mindset focused on scale, uptime, and the team's ability to rapidly triage/resolve production issues. Promotes modern software development patterns and practices that promote simplicity, understanding, reuse, and security. In partnership with product management and solutions architect, helps to maintain a technical backlog for the agile team Serve as a subject matter expert on core systems, providing guidance to other team members in their maintenance and support.