Manager, Platform Engineering

cargill • Atlanta, GA

18h

About The Position

The Manager, Platform Engineering job sets goals and objectives for the achievement of operational results for the team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. This job oversees the delivery against project planning and prioritization, coordinates collaboration with cross functional teams, and allocates resources effectively and efficiently. The job also leads the team to implement best in class industry standards to continuously improve the development process.

Requirements

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing a multi-regional production support team
• Experience managing vendor relationships and consultants
• Experience in driving large-scale, high pressure triage sessions along with stakeholder management
• Experience reporting and managing software and infrastructure costs & budgets
• Experience in supporting a data platform or some form of large-scale shared service is a plus
• Cloudera CDP, Impala, Kudu, Apache Kafka, AWS infrastructure, ServiceNow

Responsibilities

• Oversees the implementation and delivery of software projects, including resource allocation, to ensure they are completed on time and within scope.
• Leads the team to apply internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• Leads rigorous testing, code reviews, and adherence to best in class industry standards to ensure the quality and performance of software applications.
• Suggests continuous improvement initiatives and leads the implementation of approved standards to improve software development and deployment processes and operational excellence, applying test driven development as needed.
• Coordinates collaboration with product managers, designers and other cross functional teams to gather requirements, set priorities and deliver resolutions to meet business objectives.
• Leads and reviews the creation and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
• Leads technical support and troubleshooting for deployed applications for minimal downtime and fast resolution of issues.
• Maintains partnership with key internal and external stakeholders, understanding their needs and enabling effective communication to assure project alignment and success.
• Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed