Hybrid Senior Platform Engineering Manager

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Senior Platform Engineering Manager at FanDuel leading a team of engineers. Driving impactful technology solutions and participating in strategic planning for diverse projects.

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement to coach and develop a group of SRE and DevOps engineers.
• You are able to represent your teams autonomously, require minimal guidance and are accountable for the team's structure, software, and technical deliverables.
• You partner with your engineers and leadership to define a vision and tenets that communicate how your team makes decisions.
• You provide the larger picture, the long-term perspective, and the context (past, current, future) behind business and technology choices.
• Your roadmap influences organisational goals.
• You effectively participate in FanDuel's planning process.
• You evangelise our company values.
• Experience of managing team functions and objectives, developing deliverables and capacity planning.
• Manage a teams of engineers working to deliver impactful technology solutions to a wide variety of stakeholders whilst protecting the team from burnout.
• Preemptively identify technical risks and provide mitigation plans before delivery goals are jeopardised.
• Own your infrastructure systems by helping to guide your teams to deliver and support them while providing appropriate support for endusers, both internal and customer-facing.
• Work with engineering leadership to deliver a technical vision with an eye for customer satisfaction and security.
• Lead the team to align with and contribute to the growth of the organisation.
• Leverage existing FanDuel solutions where appropriate.
• Provide technical guidance on code and architecture.
• Take the long-term growth for the teams and the wider organisation into account when making architectural decisions.
• Work with senior stakeholders to scope and define new solutions to problems while influencing the roadmap and ensuring we delivery truly viable features and products.
• Seek diverse perspectives and making trade-off decisions that balances the value for customers with other business goals.
• Contribute to the recruitment process by identifying the best candidates and providing a great candidate experience.
• Build a diverse and talented team.
• Define Ways of Working and regularly seek feedback from the teams to continuously improve the process as we grow.
• Influence team culture and lead the team to positive outcomes even during difficult situations.
• Create an environment where we learn from our mistakes and share our learnings with each other.
• Act as representative of the teams when needed to provide succinct and tailored communications in an empathetic and respectful manner.
• Coordinate quick and sensible remediation for production incidents and provide relevant stakeholders with concise and timely updates.

Requirements

• Ability to manage performance, team coaching and promotion of personal development.
• Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable cloud environment, preferably AWS.
• Ability to read code and evangelise best practices.
• Ability to build cross-team working relationship, and liaison with partner teams to achieve business goals.
• Experience in coaching engineers to improve code and platform quality.
• People management, communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Ensure technology solutions are testable, monitored, and maintainable.
• Remain calm under pressure while effectively boosting team morale.
• Knowledge of DevOps, Incident Management and SRE are preferred.

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events