Metaswitch, a newly acquired division of Microsoft, lead the way in cloud native communication software with award winning solutions providing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems that run right in the core of over 1,000 service providers and mobile operators' networks.  We are bringing that expertise to the Private Multi-Access Edge Compute space, and the team are expanding into Bangalore, India.   With the trend to digital transformation accelerating during these difficult times, we need engineering leaders that can lead the execution of our ambitious plans for our customers while driving the engineering collaboration, architecture and processes that will drive future innovation. If you are that person, contact us!  

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a growing team of software engineers; create clarity, communicate teams vision, strategy and progress to peers, partners and senior leaders; provide expert guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices and trainings, establishes team culture with emphasis on quality, customer love, and engineering agility, removing barriers and enabling the team to be productive 
• Effectively lead architectural reviews, planning and execution processes, creating robust engineering plans and prioritizing work across teams. Make timely decisions to meet quality, security, reliability and shipping goals 
• Consistently identify, reward and manage growth of highly performing engineering talent and help all team members achieve the most in their careers 
• Build a team with diverse viewpoints and capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives, promote inclusive culture 
• Find opportunities for collaboration across teams even geographically distributed including program management, work on cross-team commitments, and achieve scale by enabling the work of others 

• Set a culture of craftmanship within the team and help teams make long term architecture decisions 
• Translate business requirements into a strategy for systems solutions, derive data driven insights, building experiences that empower users to do more. Define well thought out design patterns and code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, and maintainability, and performance that others can follow to ensure proper application architecture 
• Responsible for understanding, recommending, and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes 
• Lead the continuous improvement of engineering and quality practices. Work across business groups to ensure the long-term integrity of a product area. Demonstrate personal commitment to technical advancement. Guide the organization to deliver high-quality and innovative solutions 

Qualifications

• Leadership experience managing a high-performing technical team, including hiring, developing and retaining talent, building an open diverse and inclusive working environment where everyone feels belonging and welcomed 
• Knowledge of virtualization and Cloud technologies (Kubernetes/Dockers/Open Stack/VMware etc)  
• Domain experience in 5G/ LTE mobile networks  
• Knowledge of 5G/ LTE mobile network elements and call flows 
• Software development experience in C++, C, Rust or Java 

• Experience defining requirements, architecting and designing software and code review practices 
• Ability to work cross-functionally, to influence for impact, to handle ambiguity, to solve problems, to manage stakeholders and expectations, to wear many hats at a time and to learn quickly from failure 
• Being data driven, customer focused, collaborative, structured, self-motivated with a strong drive for results reaching across teams and organizations internationally and with cultural sensitivity 
• Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative analysis to drive great decision making 
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non‐technical 

• Native or professional fluency in English 
• Bachelor and/or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent  

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