Automation Engineer - Team Lead (Finance)
The Automation Engineer - Team Lead will use critical thinking skills and/or breadth of expertise to optimize our software development lifecycle and enhance the overall developer experience. The person will also help develop, manage and execute plans for deploying changes, improving reliability and performance, boarding user groups, and improving the services provided by the technology team that supports software development tools.
What you will do
- Develop and implement short and long-term roadmaps for their respective domains.
- Provides guidance to technical staff within their domain.
- Design, develop, and maintain internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure that streamline engineering workflows across development, testing, and delivery.
- Focus on improving the overall developer experience by reducing cognitive load, minimizing interruptions, and providing clear requirements and feedback loops.
- Define, collect, and analyze key engineering productivity metrics to identify trends, measure impact, and inform strategic decisions.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, sharing knowledge, educating teams on productivity best practices, and fostering experimentation.
- Be responsible for working on building, automating, and supporting application and infrastructure deployment services.
- Partner with development, operations, QA, and product teams to understand their needs, gather feedback, and implement solutions that address pain points and align with business outcomes.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for productivity-related tools and infrastructure.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the software development process, from planning and coding to testing and deployment.
- Contribute as a senior DevOps team member focused on modernization and automation
- Provide input on the future execution of the delivery and management of environments with a strong emphasis on automation, security, scalability and resilience
What experience you need
- BS or Associate's Degree/Technical Certification or equivalent job experience required
- 7+ years of directly related experience
- Working knowledge of Google Suite Tools, Confluence and JIRA
- Excellent verbal, written and 'attention to detail' skills
- Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision
- Strong interpersonal and time management skills
- Excellent understanding of infrastructure and application components
- Excellent understanding of SDLC Methodologies including Scrum and Agile Principles
- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams including Infrastructure Services, Business Technology, Security and Operations and facilitate conversations that lead to agreed direction
- Ability and desire to work with people all over the world, with the probability of a varying work schedule to accommodate different time zones
What could set you apart
- Software development experience in 2 or languages
- Over 3 years of experience using or integrating CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub, Sonar, Nexus
- Experience designing/developing Policy as Code
- Over 3 years of experience working in a hybrid cloud environment or transforming applications from on-premise data centers to public cloud
- Over 3 years of experience with one or more Public Cloud Providers (Google, Amazon, Azure)
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