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Job Summary

An experienced skilled technology expert who manages the technical delivery, works with multiple squads or hives to deliver complex features, epics and releases.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Develop and drive application strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Domain Tech Lead.
• Ensure the technical consistency of solutions in the Hive with the business architecture, technology architecture and enterprise technology standards.
• Execute the Hive's product vision with the Hive Leads.
• Collaborate with Hive Lead and DTL on technology roadmap.
• Communicate technical feasibility and constraints, articulate explicit explanation of technical issues to stakeholders.

Business
• Support business in appropriate sequencing of the backlog, refinement, and rationalization through a technical lens.
• Perform solution sizing, design detailed technological solutions for platforms, applications, or collections of applications.
• Deliver solution intent (SI) and application designs, produce clear and comprehensive design and solution intent documents.
• Collaborate with IT Change and Release Managers to develop strategic delivery and release plans with technical dependencies.
• Proactively identify cross-hive or squad dependencies and risks, and develop mitigation plans to address them without waiting for formal planning sessions.
• Develop change implementation, release plans, and run books with technical dependencies, aligning all partners with support from the squad and architect.





Technical Leadership
• Influence prioritization for technology backlog and strategic initiatives.
• Incorporate considerations of technical debt into the roadmap alongside customer outcomes, ensuring a balanced approach to long-term sustainability.
• Align detailed technical solutions with strategic roadmaps, long-term architecture and product/platform vision and with overall organization's technology direction and standards.
• Support the squad in clearly slice the back log into independently shippable experience for customers and responsible for technical delivery and technical excellence across the squads.

• Identify and address technical and design dependencies to enhance the speed and quality of delivery, ensuring smooth delivery.
• Accountable to work with technical counterparts to mitigate technical debt and balance risk, and regulatory items with new features, functionality, or changes to keep the cost of change low.
• Responsible to work in partnership with technology to ensure a balance of functional and non-functional requirements are represented in the backlog and that there is an approach to mitigate or avoid technical debt.
• Lead the squad in defining both functional and non-functional requirements,



ensuring critical aspects like API response times and overall system performance are met.
• Act as an expert for resolving technical and design issues.
• Drive an accountable and sensible technical direction to build reusable, scalable and interoperable solutions that integrate with existing investments.

Processes
• Regularly reviews squad metrics in regard to Predictability, Quality, Squad Sentiment and supports the team to better value delivery.
• Work with chapters to promote quality engineering, technical craftsmanship and drive solution standardization and service reusability.

People & Talent
• Contribute to technical innovation and share knowledge within the engineering community.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, lead internal workshops and seminars, encourage team participation in innovation initiatives.

Vendor Management
• Collaborate with vendors to integrate vendor deliverables with internal systems and resolve any issues impacting delivery.
• Drive POC or RFP and vendor evaluation exercise along with PO to ensure SCB technical standards are evaluated.

Governance
• Oversee the implementation of microservices architecture where applicable.
• Design APIs and ensure they are secure, scalable, and well-documented according to standards.
• Manage and mitigate technical risks in the delivery.

• Present Solutions to the architecture review forum.
• Align with technology architects on the target solution design to minimize technical debt.
• Align technical solutions and the applications with established security control requirements, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation to avoid potential penalties.
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