Technical Directors at Code and Theory lead complex technical programs that can span across multiple projects for some of our major clients (Fortune 50/Fortune 100 companies). They understand our client-partners’ business needs, and tailor the right technical stack to support these KPIs and future-proof their organizations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Organizational Responsibility:

• Managing 1-2 engineering managers to grow their management abilities and careers.
• Managing the focus and outputs of these teams as if managing a “portfolio” of technology with a focus on quality and demand.
• Managing L&D plans, accelerators, and other technical collateral to better structure and describe their team’s goals to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Focused on building case studies and participating in new business initiatives to describe compelling features of a technical solution

Project Responsibility:

• Effectively leading technical aspects of one or more client projects.
  • Pair with the Producer to control the project’s scope
• Ensuring that a project-level approach is created and followed through the project.
  • Iteratively select every part of the recommended technical stack through a collaborative and transparent process
  • Present software architectures and infrastructures recommendations
• Facilitating review of engineers solutions for architectural fit and conformance with code standards.
  • Conduct technical audits
  • Ensure that the proper development workflow and project delivery process are followed (backlog, grooming, etc.)
  • Work with the QA department to set up the right testing activities (manual, automated, security, load/performance, accessibility, etc.)
  • Assist the developers in their day to day activities
• Ensuring that project standards are robust and consistently applied.
  • Primary point of contact with client technical stakeholders and key in negotiating acceptable solutions.
  • Provide detailed technical recommendations in the format of a Technical Approach document that outlines the software and hosting architecture, development best practices, etc.

Technical skills:

• 10 to 15 years average IT experience 
• Experience delivering very high traffic sites, on the order of a million users per day
• Experience architecting highly available cloud-based infrastructures to support these sites
• Hands-on experience both in frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS) and backend development (PHP, .NET, Java)
• Experience with some advanced JS frameworks (Angular.js, React.js, etc.) as well as CSS pre-processors (Sass, Less) and task runners (Grunt, Gulp)
• Experience with one major Opensource CMS (Drupal, WordPress)
• Extensive experience working with GIT

Other required skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Able to simplify complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience leading development teams with knowledge in SCRUM and running code reviews