- Strong knowledge of cloud service providers, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management and container technologies.
- A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures, containers and serverless technologies.
- Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling and DevOps
- Proven experience with large scale distributed & cloud-based technologies such as Kubernetes, Hazelcast, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Containers, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop.
- Large-scale software/application development with coding experience in some of the following: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, PHP etc.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels.
- Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders.
- Strong relationship management skills.
- Solid business acumen.
- Fast learner on both technical and business side.
- Strong customer centric mindset.
- Comfortable operating in a matrix setup
- Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.
- Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.
- Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Use technical expertise and visionary capabilities to ensure the Lyve cloud platform services are a key differentiator for Seagate, you will drive the engineering vision and strategy for how the platform is designed and delivered.
- Champion and effectively utilize Agile methodology and practices by partnering with aligned Architects and Product Owners to strive for elite engineering teams.
- Understand the business domain and product vision; in partnership with other team members to align the work of the team toward the shared goals for the product.
- Monitor team effectiveness, quality of work, and quickly address issues/performance affecting team productivity.
- Support team members in addressing or escalating issues to make the overall team more efficient.
- Remove roadblocks and obstacles; manage interdependencies when needed.
- Initiate and foster collaborative partnerships with current and potential customers, technology and business managers, vendors, and technology executives; develops relationships that support increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
- Coach and evaluate the performance and quality of work delivered by team members, create a motivating and respectful work environment for teams, and ensure that your team is constantly learning and delivering quality code while driving cross-functional alignment with other parts of Lyve organization.
- Provide relevant technical coaching and support to team members. Hires talent and actively engages in recruiting processes.
- Participate in the development of business and/or technology vision, strategies, critical success factors, and operating plans for application, unit, or platform.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, assess their needs, and be able to build an effective organization.
- Ability to drive career development, creating an environment in which engineers can grow appropriately in a challenging technical area.
- Ability to lead an organization to ambitious standards of metrics-validated engineering excellence.
- Excellent product sensibility, with the capability to drive key product innovations or opportunities. Education and Experience
- You should have hands-on senior leadership experience, and a strong belief in transparency and accountability. You have hands-on experience that has fueled your knowledge and experience on your journey into leadership. You have experience hiring and developing the skills and talents of others.
- Strong track record of delivering results and are able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities with various business stakeholders.
- Lead a complex cloud infrastructure organization supporting core products, recent acquisitions, and legacy infrastructure systems.
- Lead by example to establish a culture of technical expertise and operational accountability.
- Sponsor and support cloud governance initiatives, establishing standards, cost monitoring, and security/compliance efforts.
- Identify and prioritize technical initiatives to align and integrate with business goals.
- Add transparency mechanisms for stakeholders into the priorities and activities of our Cloud organization.
- Solicit requirements from collaborators and foster excellent communication with stakeholders.
- Hire, coach, and manage diverse teams with varying skill sets and experience.
- Establish training standards and performance expectations for leaders and individual contributors.