Client Technology Engineering Portfolio Leader

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Job Title (position to be filled):  Engineering Portfolio Leader

Client Technology (CT) is continuing to evolve to be a best-in-class technology function — enabling EY to leverage technology to scale the business. We will achieve this by operating under one simple model to work across service lines in a consistent way. CT play a key role in the in the implementation of EY’s All In strategy, so we are working toward an improved client experience — making it easier to engage CT and creating a better CT employee experience with flexibility to grow and a broader spectrum of opportunities and types of work

The opportunity

As Engineering Portfolio Leader your responsibilities will be defining, designing, implementing and operating world-class products for EY and our Clients.

In this role, you will partner with product management to set the vision, strategy and execution for a portfolio that will support yearly revenue in excess of US$40B.

Key responsibilities

• Build, manage and lead a global team of over 100 passionate engineers as part of the broader EY Engineering team
• End-to-end delivery of a portfolio of Products in partnership with Product Management within agreed targets (on-time, on-budget) and standards
• Manage an overall budget (P&L) in excess of $XM (inc. hosting charges)
• Design, Develop and Operate multi-tenant, global, scalable & highly available Products following the agreed Engineering Operating Model
• Optimize ROI for development and ongoing operations costs of portfolio
• Drive awareness, adoption and reuse of platforms across CT, EY and external partner ecosystem
• Support, measure and continuously improve product availability through Site Reliability Engineering foundational practices (SRE, DraaS)
• Implement DevOps Practices and establish Site Reliability Engineering capabilities across all Products
• Advise and implement technology and platform strategy and standards for Client Technology in collaboration with technology teams across EY
• Advise and implement technology, platforms and development standards as part of Engineering Leadership
• Scout the technology landscape for emerging technologies, patterns and solutions to benefit EY or our Clients
• Drive an engineering culture that attracts and retains the best talent

Other Client-Facing Activities

• Collaborate with technology teams across EY Service Lines, being a thought leader and strategizing with the Client facing teams on implementation of global scale projects, including but not limited to migrations and build out of large-scale solution deployment.
• Participate in client pursuits as the lead representative for EY in the platform and cloud space

Skills

• Balanced experience in managing a delivery organization while having hands-on software development experience
• Expert in driving full product development and software development lifecycle including definition, design, development and operations of globally distributed and scalable cloud-based products
• Expert understanding of software engineering concepts such as: multithreading, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, high performance and scalable components 
• Expert knowledge of Application and Infrastructure architectures including non-functional aspects like performance, scalability, reliability, availability etc
• Expert knowledge of software and product development practices and tooling (incl. coding, coding standards and reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment and operations) 
• Deep knowledge on modern multi Cloud (on-prem and public) platforms and infrastructures, Cloud Native application product architectures based on PaaS. SaaS and IaaS services
• Delivering integrated IT operations services across complex multi cloud environments (On-Prem, Azure, Google, AWS) meeting agreed to SLAs
• Technical leadership across infrastructure, networking and platform technologies supporting a diverse application product portfolio (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Leadership qualities include developing teamwork and trust, exhibiting respectful transparent communication, exemplifying collaboration both with peers and clients and leading positive change that fosters diversity and inclusiveness
• Experienced with managing large IT budgets, driving productivity, quality and cost efficiencies
• Technical leader providing vision, strategy and execution for modern application and infrastructure operations organizations.
• Skilled at creating efficient and modern organization operating models, process and structure supporting shift to Agile, DevOPS and SRE delivery practices.
• Customer centric leader with a sharp focus on delivering significant business value across diverse set of IT and Business stakeholders
• Fiscally responsible budget management and financial control, driving productivity, quality and efficiencies.
• Regular international and domestic travel. Reasonable extension of the working day should be expected commensurate with the needs to fulfil the obligations of the role

Other:

• Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of engineers. You will lead your team to shape and deliver a portfolio of products
• Manage a software engineering team that builds, designs, implements and maintains a portfolio of software products and related services.
• Set goals, strategies, budgets, and oversee deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites.
• Manage robust and scalable systems in order to get ahead of the exponential demand.
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools.
• Provide leadership for engineering standards inside EY and manage collaboration with cross-functional Engineering teams to streamline and improve adoption of software platforms.
• Act as Engineering Leadership provide technical governance across all Engineering products

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• Degree at university level  
• English language skills - excellent written and verbal communication  
• 15+ years in business, prior work in industry, technology or a professional services firm
• 5+ years’ experience in managing senior staff and offshore teams 
• Understanding of IT life cycle: pipeline, resource, demand, project delivery, financials 
• Strong MS Project Server, PowerPoint, Visio, Sharepoint and Excel skills 
• Outstanding self-management, influence management, information presentation and interpersonal communication 

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