Team Lead – Cloud Application Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee a team of delivery and engineering professionals responsible for designing, building, and maintaining AAIS's cloud application platform.

• Manage work intake, technical planning, prioritization, estimation, sequencing, and tracking of delivery.

• Convert business objectives into engineering results, release plans, and accountable execution.

• Recognize delivery risks and resource limitations, address blockers, and escalate decisions when necessary.

• Direct architecture and engineering choices across data, applications, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, identity, endpoints, and SaaS platforms.

• Set standards for source control, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation, and change management.

• Lead production readiness, incident escalation, root cause analysis, and enhancements in reliability.

• Coordinate efforts between engineers, business partners, vendors, and leadership regarding priorities, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes.

• Ensure that work is documented in Azure DevOps, code is managed in GitHub, and peer review practices are implemented.

• Convey delivery status, risks, and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders and leadership effectively.

• Mentor and coach engineers, provide constructive feedback, and create avenues for technical advancement.

• Foster a collaborative engineering environment characterized by accountability, knowledge sharing, and cross-coverage.

• Establish goals and expectations, track progress, and engage in regular performance discussions.

• Oversee daily operations, resource planning, workload allocation, and task prioritization.

• Collaborate with Human Resources on hiring, onboarding, development, employee relations, and performance evaluation.

• Advocate for team requirements in cross-functional conversations and ensure adherence to company policies and quality standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of experience in technology, including senior engineering or technical leadership roles.

• Proven experience in leading cross-functional engineering delivery and production operations.

• Demonstrated expertise across various cloud engineering disciplines and a deep understanding of at least one.

• Comprehensive technical knowledge encompassing cloud data platforms, application engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, identity, infrastructure, and production operations.

• Recent experience leading teams utilizing AWS-native services such as API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, S3, AWS Lambda, and AWS Amplify, along with MongoDB Atlas, Okta, and Microsoft 365 Security.

• Proficiency in API integration, CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, and cloud security practices.

• Strong grasp of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), source control, testing methods, change management, and operational readiness.

• Formal experience in people management is a plus.

• Experience in property and casualty insurance or other regulated sectors is advantageous.

• The selected candidate will be required to undergo an in-person leadership interview.

• Must exhibit a high level of integrity, ethics, discretion, and commitment to the organization's mission.

• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.

• Excellent communication skills across various channels and asynchronously in a remote-first work environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• 10% annual bonus.

• Minimal travel required for annual all-company gatherings or team design sessions (up to 5% of the time).