Bayanat Career Opportunities

Role description

The candidate is expected to lead the teams in designing and implementing cutting-edge software projects in the logistics space. The candidate works closely with the Software Architects to set the architectural direction for our products. In addition, the candidate is responsible for adopting, maintaining and implementing best practices with the directors, mangers, software engineers, test engineers and QA through example, guidance and training. This leadership should be a beacon reflecting our cultural values.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead, mentor and support a highly effective team of passionate engineers fostering a high-performance culture.
• Responsible for ensuring that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution
• Serves as part of the senior staff, working in an interdisciplinary manner with their peers in other departments
• Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization
• Recruit world‐class engineering talent and participate in the process, including attracting, screening, and closing high-caliber candidates.
• Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture and design
• Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management and implementations
• Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices
• Build cross-department relationships centered on executing company strategy
• Solve complex software engineering tasks while maintaining coding standards and practices
• Communicate effectively with team members, internal and external customers
• Create, manage, and measure KPI’s such as velocity, estimation accuracy and defect percentages
• Assure that department achieves objectives and project completion within budget and time frame
• Assist in training new engineers by leading technical courses
• Manage budgets including Training, Travel, Morale, Contractor and Compensation while working to reconcile with actuals from Finance
• Work with Finance and Recruiting to track headcount and job openings
• Work with Business Development on securing business opportunities
• Work closely with the CTO on department wide initiatives

We are Looking for Engineers with the Following:

• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Professional demeanor
• Works effectively in a team setting
• Works efficiently across distributed teams
• Aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize
• Manage several activities in parallel
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Able to translate customer and business needs to technical solutions
• The natural ability to be a champion for change
• 10+ years engineering leadership experience
• Experience with architectural design recommendation and guidance
• Proven experience leading engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, delivery and maintenance of large-scale and high-performance platforms
• Knowledge of release management and CICD deployment workflow processes, from development release through production deployment
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members. Positive, can-do attitude and value collaboration a must
• Experience with object-oriented code, .Net, C#, HTML, CSS, SQL Server, Front End Web, Web Services
• Experience leading SaaS-based engineering organizations
• Technical expertise that enables meaningful conversations with product architects & engineers

Required Education

BS, MS, MBA or Ph.D in Computer Science or related technical discipline