The role of the CoE (Center of Engineering) Lead is to build and support centre of engineering. Main responsibility areas to be covered by CoE Lead are:
- oversee the engineering team and ensure that the technical objectives and goals of the organization are met
- driving talent growth in organization
maintain high standards of quality for the products or services produced by the engineering team.
Responsibilities- Team management: The CoE Lead is responsible for managing the engineering team and ensuring that team members are being utilized effectively and efficiently. This includes providing leadership, guidance, and support to the team to help them achieve their goals.
- Staffing strategies: Develop and implement staffing strategies, processes, and procedures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering team. This includes creating a CoE structure with the required skills to deliver projects for both internal and external customers.
- Skill distribution: Support skills distribution in the CoE to ensure a balance of freshers, juniors, middles, and senior-level engineers. This helps to promote cross-skilling and collaboration within the team.
- Performance management: The CoE Lead is responsible for conducting performance reviews with the engineering team to ensure that team members are meeting their targets and to identify areas for improvement.
- Talent development: Develop and implement strategies for cross-skilling and talent attraction and create and support training and mentoring strategies to promote the professional growth of team members.
Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams, such as HR, procurement, and facilities, to implement activities related to the CoE and ensure that the team has the necessary resources to deliver projects effectively.
Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or a related field.
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in technology, including project delivery or product build, with experience in team staffing. Additionally, 5+ years of experience in team/department management of 50+ people with experience in building cross-functional teams.
- Communication skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential for this role, as the CoE Lead will be responsible for communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership skills: Strong leadership skills are required to manage and motivate a team of engineers and technical professionals towards achieving their goals.
- Software development lifecycle: Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle is required, including different models of team organization such as agile, waterfall, and mixed.
- Collaboration tools: Experience with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, and GIT is essential for this role.
- Payment's domain: Basic experience in the payment's domain is preferred but not mandatory.
- Technical expertise: The CoE Lead should have experience and background in one or several areas, such as Java, Golang, Android, Base24, Way4 Switch, Postilion, Testing and test automation, Solution Design and Architecture for payment systems, Talend, Python, Control-M, Infrastructure, Card Management Systems, Middleware, Cloud, Falcon, PRM, Loyalty, SMS, Qlik, etc.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or related field
- 10+ years in technology including project delivery or product build, with experience in team staffing
- 5+ years managing teams/departments of 50+ people and building cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (agile, waterfall, mixed)
- Experience with collaboration tools: Microsoft Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, GIT
- Experience/background in one or several areas: Java, Golang, Android, Base24, Way4 Switch, Postilion, testing and test automation, solution design and architecture for payment systems, Talend, Python, Control-M, infrastructure, card management systems, middleware, cloud, Falcon, PRM, loyalty, SMS, Qlik, etc.
- Basic experience in the payments domain
What We Do
At NI, we Engineer Ambitiously. We celebrate creative problem solving. And we take our customer relationships to heart. We believe in the power and potential of making connections—between people, ideas, and technology. In fact, connection is central to everything we do. We constantly challenge ourselves to find those connections because that’s what creates a path forward. This means bringing the right people together to build solutions that make a difference. It means combining fresh perspectives with new technologies to turn your vision into reality. For more than four decades, we’ve set the standard in automated test and automated measurement systems. We’re proud to partner with the talented engineers and enterprises using our systems to solve the world’s most pressing technology challenges and build better businesses. From data and automation to research and validation, our tailored, software-connected approach is rooted in helping you engineer what’s next. As your trusted partner, we’re committed to helping you set your goals higher and reach them sooner. We’re here for you, for each other, and for the next generation of innovators who think bigger, aim higher, and go faster. Let’s Engineer Ambitiously.
