Vice President of Software Engineering

Company: Frontend Arts
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Meet Our Team:

As a key leader within the Product organization, you will lead a global engineering team responsible for the architecture, development and release across our full range of our low-code, AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation solutions.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

Working collaboratively with other leaders in the space you will provide technology and people leadership to directly create best in class solutions. The efforts of your and your team are highly visible with cornerstone products relied on by many of the worlds largest and most well known organizations.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Drive the architectural evolution of Pegas flagship product using microservices architecture focusing on maintainability, scalability & reliability on AWS and GCP platform.
• Coordinate product design decisions, maintain project schedules and monitor quality and dev/ops processes to deliver finished products.
• Develop guidelines and best practices around the future of Platform and Service development to ensure that Pegas product architecture meets the demanding and constantly changing needs of customers and the market in a way that promotes customer success, is easily configurable, scalable, reliable and demonstrates high performance.
• Collaborate with Platform Product leaders team to provide regular feedback and support and identify emerging platform features. Drive development teams to adhere to internal and industry best practices
• Identify opportunities for improvement in the product and the organization and facilitate regular and detailed communications of product and market status changes to Pega executive leadership
• Focus on customer success and demonstrate a strong orientation towards customer success. Lead by example to promote a culture with a focus on customer success in Intelligent Automation and beyond
• Provide support to Sales, Marketing, Consulting, Training and Cloud teams as needed. This person should establish themself as a market and product expert and thought leader
• Develop the skills of direct reports through planning effective developmental activities related to current and future needs of both the team and Pega
• Motivate, inspire and coach the team to achieve outstanding results
  
  Who You Are:
  
  
  • Expert level knowledge of the business application technology landscape, full-stack development with a particular expertise in cloud technology.
  • Experience operating a sophisticated set of global CI/CD pipelines, with extensive experience in quality automation.
  • The ability to achieve the Pega Platform certification within 6 months of joining
  • Knowledge of Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM, SAFe, etc.
  • Strong experience in assessing and managing project risk, driving tactical objectives including major software releases.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical resources.
    
    What You've Accomplished:
    
    
    • 15+ years experience in software engineering, including 5+ years in a technical leadership/management role
    • Extensive experience defining, designing, and delivering enterprise scale systems
    • Experience in building or leading the development of large-scale products for use by the worlds leading organizations.
      
      Pega Offers You:
      
      
      • Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
      • Continuous learning and development opportunities
      • An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
      • Competitive global benefits program inclusive ofpay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

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