Job Description
Joint Strategic Prioritization (EM-PO Partnership): Competency in establishing a highly effective partnership with the Product Owner (PO) to jointly discuss, align, and prioritize the strategic balance between business feature delivery and critical technical initiatives (e.g., defect mitigation, technical debt resolution, and refactoring), ensuring optimal long-term value.
Active Technical Leadership & Contribution: The ability to maintain technical credibility and currency by participating in high-leverage activities like system design and deep code reviews. Direct coding contributions are managed pragmatically to unblock the team or ensure operational stability, while strictly preserving focus on strategic management responsibilities.
Intellectual Stimulation & Regulatory Challenge: The ability to actively foster deep, cross-paradigm architectural discussions (e.g., Reactive vs. MVC) while simultaneously channeling the team’s curiosity to solve complex compliance and regulatory constraints inherent in the Person Master Data and Tax domains. The EM leverages technical diversity and regulatory challenges as primary drivers for continuous learning and innovative, compliant solutions.
Strategic Stack Stewardship: Demonstrates the ability to manage and justify the coexistence of divergent technical paradigms (e.g., Reactive Kotlin vs. MVC Spring Boot), ensuring each stack is optimally chosen for its specific business and performance requirements (High-Throughput vs. Low-Traffic).
Cross-Paradigm Coaching & Integrated Domain Expertise: Competency in leveraging the deliberate diversity of paradigms (Reactive vs. MVC) as a growth area. The EM ensures that deep expertise in both stacks AND the functional/regulatory logic of the Person Master Data, Tax, and Power of Attorney domains is built within the team. This is achieved through dedicated mentoring and knowledge-sharing initiatives, thereby managing cognitive overhead and fostering the engineers' ability to architecturally contextualize solutions that meet both technical performance and regulatory compliance requirements.
Strategic Talent Acquisition for Stack Agility: Ability to strategically steer the recruitment process to acquire engineers who either possess immediate subject matter expertise in one of the diverging stacks (Reactive Kotlin/Coroutines or MVC) or demonstrate strong potential for rapidly learning the complementary paradigm, ensuring the team's long-term technical agility.
Cultivating Psychological Safety: The ability to create an environment where team members feel safe to make mistakes and voice candid criticism without fear of negative consequences. This is the foundation for candid contribution, innovation, and high-trust collaboration.
Managing Team Health & Sustainability: The competency to recognize early warning signs of burnout or boreout (through metrics or observation) and take preventative action to ensure Sustainable Team Performance and minimize regrettable attrition.
Conflict Mediation & Resolution: The ability to impartially identify and de-escalate tensions and disagreements within the team to maintain a functional, respectful, and productive work environment.