Senior Engineering Manager Job in Chennai at American Express

American Express is hiring for the role of Senior Engineering Manager!

Responsibilities of the Candidate: 

• Lead a team of web engineers and deliver world class web applications using ReactJS and NodeJS on the cloud.
• Find opportunities to educate and learn from other mobile & web engineering teams
• Align group-wide product owners to define requirements for new features, build product roadmaps and plan increments of work
• Manage Tech OKRs and strive to continuously improve the metrics month over month.
• Research relevant technologies and form a point of view on the technologies and architectural approaches we take
• Whiteboard and socialize changes and system designs in collaboration with architects, tech leads and team members
• Provide support to operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve production issues
• Recognize and solve for inefficiencies in our development process
• Meet regularly with team members to provide feedback on employee performance and coaching for difficult situations
• Help engineers develop and implement a personal career development plan Mentor engineers in skills development
• Plan process and technology improvement projects and influence other managers and delivery team leads to collaborate on execution
• Assist the director to design and complete a hiring plan, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment

Requirements: 

• Solid experience leading and building N-tier Web applications on Cloud environment.
• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for very hardworking technical teams.
• The ability to participate in, and contribute simultaneously to, multiple work streams including planning, logistics, communication, and follow up across a diverse and virtual team
• Adaptability to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
• A strong belief in your personal responsibility for ensuring quality craftsmanship
• Experience working in a distributed team model and the ability to collaborate with remote team members.
• Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies