Cloud Team Lead

Position Summary:

The Cloud Team Lead (Manager) is responsible for performance of the Cloud team. This role includes hands-on technical leadership of cloud platform development, managing the growth and success of team members, and ensuring that both company and team goals are met, while addressing a range of complex software, data pipeline, and people-related issues across projects. The lead ensures operational efficiency, resource allocation, and the successful execution of cloud team initiatives. You will guide the development and administration of team goals, schedules, and performance requirements, while also contributing to the overall company product vision, strategic planning, and organizational decision-making.

Outcomes:

Accountable for the Cloud team meeting their quarterly objectives, meeting client and project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manager 
  • Supervise and mentor team members, such as individual contributors and Lead(s), providing guidance and support to help them resolve problems and meet their team’s goals.
  • Develop and manage individual plans for the career growth of Cloud Team members.
  • Conduct customer-facing interactions with key clients, partners, and prospects when necessary.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for upper management regarding team progress, risks, and potential challenges, and new initiatives.
  • Oversee the development and optimization of processes that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team’s work, including effective/responsible use of productivity technologies including AI tools.
  • Coordinate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring seamless integration between cloud team and other departments.
  • Manage resource allocation and collaborate with project management on timelines for cloud projects, ensuring cost-effective solutions and adherence to deadlines.
  • Provide strategic direction for long-term planning and growth of the cloud department, including identifying new research and development opportunities.
  • Monitor and evaluate the performance of direct reports, providing constructive feedback and support for professional development.
  • Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, address issues proactively that impact deliverable timeline and quality.

• Cloud Development
  • Design and improve the architecture for cloud software, data pipelines, ML workflows, and how they communicate with other components of the product.
  • Coordinate the integration of R&D algorithms and models into scalable production services and automations.
  • Lead the development of web-based full-stack cloud applications and integration with internal and external services and devices.
  • Define the technical direction for scalability, security, observability and maintenance of our services and data engineering platforms.
  • Build, integrate, and troubleshoot software running in the cloud using services and technologies such as ECS, EKS, S3, CloudFront, EC2, Lambda, Postgres, MongoDB, Timescale, Databricks, IoT Core (MQTT), etc.
  • Help develop system software engineering practices such as code reviews, design reviews, unit tests, module tests, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), CICD automations, etc.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or higher
• 7 or more years of experience developing and deploying software
• 5 or more years of experience leading technical teams or cloud-related projects
• 5 or more years of experience working in Python and/or Typescript
• 5 or more years of experience working with AWS services
• 5 or more years of experience working with web applications (front-end and/or back-end)
• 5 or more years of experience working with software tools like Jira, BitBucket/Git, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with message-driven (e.g Kafka), containerized applications
• Experience with Python RESTful frameworks, preferably FastAPI and/or Express
• Experience with Agile project development & management
• Experience with Databricks or similar Data Engineering platforms
• Collaborative team player
• Proficiency in software development best practices, strong understanding of technical debt and scalability (functional and volume) and managing of software development life cycle
• Strong leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to drive performance and results
• Strong communication skills and preference for working in teams

Equal Opportunity Employer

Electra Vehicles is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a workplace of mutual respect and an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome all applicants and strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBT+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on their race, ethnicity, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, color, religion, gender, national origin, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken, or veteran status. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

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