Introduction:
We are currently looking to bring on a talented, self-motivated and conscientious Engineering Manager to work in our Open Access platform focusing on helping researchers, institutes publish research content through one of our 3000+ journals.
We are in an exciting phase of change, where we are embarking on a journey of building new digital products, in enriching the experience of our customers / users. This position plays a key role in ensuring that we provide a robust solution to support our services and customers. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team of driven Engineers working on some highly visible, large-scale projects with influence over a wide range of business and technology stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead a team of ~20 Software Engineers
- Build and grow a High Performance, motivated team of engineers
- Foster and maintain a safe, inclusive work atmosphere and build a healthy and collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Work closely with Business teams, Product managers, engineers, and QA to plan, own and deliver solutions with quality and as per agreed and committed timelines
- Use Agile methodologies and principles. Constantly work towards introducing and evolving best practices and processes within the team
- Cultivate an engineering culture of constant growth and continuous improvement via coaching, mentoring, providing constant feedback and setting clear and measurable goals
- Display ownership in ensuring design, development, enhancement and implementation of reliable features and services, in adherence to the targeted design and architecture
- Help set the vision of the services under the team's ownership
- Help align the roadmap based on customer and company desires
- Build the technology the right way: for us, this means simple, well-tested services that gradually grow over time, and that provide plenty of insight into production performance.
- Attract, Hire and retain talented engineers into the team
What we’re looking for:
- 12-15 years of overall experience with at-least 2 years of experience managing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated team management and leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to multitask
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Proven track record of shipping features and meeting milestones consistently with quality
- Demonstrated stakeholder management skills and an ability to build strong relationships and trust throughout the organization
- Excellent Prioritization skills, ability to anticipate and plan ahead
- Ability to sense, plan and execute automation where needed
- Sense of urgency and mindset to improve consistently
- In-depth knowledge and experience developing applications using MEAN Stack.
- Experience working on cloud computing services like AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, SNS/SQS, S3, etc.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub, GitHub Actions, Travis, NPM, Shell Script etc.
- Excellent knowledge of microservices, data modelling techniques, REST Web services
- Experience designing / developing with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer).
- Excellent communication skills while addressing technical and non-technical audiences
- Prior experience delivering using Agile on at least 2 key projects.
- Relevant years of experience in an IT technical role.
- Excellent knowledge of a wide area of information systems concepts and practice, both within and beyond own organization. Including all stages of systems development. Has a deep and demonstrable knowledge of at least one area of specialisation
- Can demonstrate a rational and organized approach to the tasks undertaken and an awareness of the need to achieve quality
- Experience with publishing, royalties or finance business processes would be an advantage.
- Excellent analytical ability, attention to detail, and understanding of the importance of commercial constraints
- Good problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills with stakeholders of all levels
Additional Information
- 24 days annual leave
- 4 volunteering days annually
- Day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
- Seasonal social and charitable events
- Training and development
- Blended style and flexi working time
- Right tools for remote working
At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.
Additional Information:
You must have the right to work and live in the India
This role is based at our Bangalore office
