DevX Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and establish the DevX practice, setting a long-term vision that aligns with organizational goals.
• Develop strategic initiatives to enhance the overall developer experience, ensuring these initiatives support business objectives and drive technological innovation.
• Engage with vendors and industry leaders to leverage external expertise and technologies that enhance the development environment and tooling.
• Foster out-of-the-box thinking within the team to encourage innovative approaches to complex problems, leading to more creative and effective solutions.
• Ability to analyze end to end value chain of Developer, identify opportunities to improve developer experience.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to integrate DevX strategies with business, product, and technology roadmaps.
• Familiarity with SPACE and DORA frameworks.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for the DevX function and monitor the impact of strategic initiatives on developer satisfaction and productivity.
• Implement tools and systems necessary for the development and continuous improvement of the DevX practice.
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures
• Lead architecture, design and code reviews with engineering teams
• Provides oversight on delivery to ensure industry best practices, standards, automation, quality, timeliness, operational readiness, continuous improvement and cost-effective solutions
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to lead engineers and the technical team within a domain

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering & technology, with 5+ years in technology leadership role establishing and leading a developer-focused team or function.
• Expert knowledge of modern software development practices, including Agile, DevOps, and Lean methodologies.
• Experience with Agile transformation projects and scaling Agile practices across large teams.
• Knowledge of additional frameworks and methodologies that support software development efficiency and quality, such as Lean, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Deep understanding of developer tools and platforms, and the ability to stay ahead of technology trends.
• Extensive knowledge around various data integration patterns against databases (inbound and outbound) to solve for real-time, and batch workloads
• Experience with cloud computing on at-least one of major providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure).
• Proficient in a CI/CD toolchain
• Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
• Proficient in the successful application of design patterns
• Proficient in test-driven development and effective unit test creation
• Experience in performance engineering, destructive testing methodologies and tools.
• Excellent oral and written communication