Job Description

About the Role

Is there a Zenika in you

Let's talk skills and passion first.

You're not just managing roadmaps you're building an environment where engineers thrive and platforms scale effortlessly. With strong architectural roots and executive clarity, you bridge high-level strategy with pragmatic execution-always staying ahead of emerging tech to inspire high-velocity, high-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Governance

Serve on the technical leadership team, aligning technology investments, resource allocation, and budget/P&L management with strategic company goals.
Establish and govern engineering best practices, architectural principles, security compliance frameworks, and CI/CD quality gates across all software initiatives.
Drive internal engineering productivity initiatives, including evaluating and adopting AI-assisted developer tooling, automated testing standards, and observability frameworks.
Develop career progression matrices, performance review frameworks, and technical mentorship programs to cultivate and retain top-tier engineering talent.

Architecture, Delivery & Execution

Oversee end-to-end delivery of complex enterprise web, mobile, and data platforms across multiple concurrent streams.
Architect resilient, cloud-native (AWS / GCP / Azure) architectures, ensuring fault tolerance, high availability (99.9%+ uptime), and defensive programming against upstream service dependencies.
Modernize brownfield systems through pragmatic refactoring roadmaps, modular/microservices migrations, and decoupling monolithic backends.
Drive technical discovery, feasibility studies, buy-versus-build evaluations, and presales/solution architecture for major client or internal initiatives.
Oversee vendor evaluations, partner platform integrations, API contracts, and financial/payment gateway connections.

Candidate Qualifications

Experience & Background

Experience: 12+ years of progressive software engineering and system architecture experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management/executive technical leadership.
Team Scale: Demonstrated track record leading multi-disciplinary teams (frontend, backend, QA, data, UX, DevOps) of engineers
Domain Exposure: Proven experience operating within compliance-driven or regulated sectors
Architecture & Modernization: Hands-on background architecting distributed cloud systems, modernizing legacy/brownfield applications, and integrating complex 3rd-party services and payment/data protocols.

Technical Competencies

Strong knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript) and resilient backend design (Node.js, Go, Java, or Python REST, GraphQL, event-driven architectures).
Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless computing, container orchestration via Docker/Kubernetes).
Strong grasp of DevOps automation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and automated release pipelines.
Familiarity with enterprise data workflows, geospatial/analytics platforms, or high-throughput transaction systems.

Leadership & Soft Skills

Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to bridge complex technical trade-offs for non-technical executives and enterprise clients.
Pragmatic Agile/Scrum delivery mindset, balancing rapid time-to-market with technical debt management and system stability.
Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect / Cloud Practitioner, PSM / Agile Coach, or equivalent) are preferred.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.