Engineering Lead

Job description

About the Role Key Responsibilities: - Technical Leadership & Delivery: - Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple engineering teams, ensuring secure, high-quality, and resilient solutions. - Own delivery roadmaps with Product Owners, aligning to customer needs, platform strategy, regulatory requirements, and audit commitments. - Provide technical leadership across cloud-native authentication architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven platforms. - Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience, and secure-by-design practices. - Cloud & Platform Engineering: - Guide teams building services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, Pub/Sub, and networking services. - Enable scalable authentication and authorization capabilities such as MFA, OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, passkeys, token services, and credential management. - People Leadership: - Lead, mentor, and develop engineering talent across multiple squads. - Foster a high-performing, inclusive culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Technology Leadership teams. - Operations, Risk & Governance: - Drive operational excellence, incident management, capacity planning, and service reliability. - Ensure compliance with security, risk, audit, and regulatory standards. - Manage delivery risks, resolve complex production challenges, and promote continuous improvement. What We're Looking For - Experience & Leadership: - 20+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams or squads. - Proven success managing multiple teams and delivering complex technology platforms in regulated environments. - Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical services. - Technical Expertise: - Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, OIDC, and event-driven architectures. - Proficiency in Java and cloud-native engineering. - Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including GKE, IAM, networking, and resilience engineering. - Strong knowledge of system design, software architecture, and engineering best practices. Leadership Scope: Multiple Engineering Squads / Platform Engineering Teams