About this Team Lead role at Pditechnologies
At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency.
By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy. We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.
Role Overview:
Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? If this is you, then join an energetic team of engineers building next generation of solutions at PDI! As an engineering leader, you will lead Agile engineering resources & provide guidance from inception through release of major & point product releases, including ongoing maintenance. You will be working closely with your product managers, product owners, engineering leaders, your team and other stakeholders. You will be leading developers, quality engineers and partnering with CloudOps, TechOps, UX Design other cross-functional functional groups to evolve our solutions while continuing to improve your teams’ adoption of SDLC processes, CI/CD integration, code quality & automation test coverage.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of up to 5 engineers in the same discipline (e.g. developers or testers...)
- Own the escalation queue end-to-end: intake from Support, prioritization, assignment, and visibility to leadership
- Coordinate with QA on regression coverage, release validation, and hotfix deployments
- Track escalation metrics (volume, time-to-resolution, case categories, repeat-offender modules); use them to drive targeted investment — durable fixes, improved logging, better validation, refactors
- Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
- Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
- Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
- Communicate with customers to ensure that expectations and support needs are met
- Provide architectural guidance to your teams towards our PDI Cloud & Platform strategy
- Make recommendations for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
- Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
- Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability
- Actively talent manage your team, providing career planning & performance improvement activities when needed
Qualifications
- 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
- Expert-level proficiency in C#, VB.NET, and T-SQL, with deep production experience on a WinForms and SQL Server application
- Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
- Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
- Proficient in API design, development & production operation
- Working experience with at least one mainstream operating system and IP networking
- Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
- Working experience with production SQL schema design, queries & administration in one or more mainstream relational and/or no-SQL databases
- Preferred: working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms
- Preferred: working experience with event-based systems, streaming architecture & related technologies
- Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
- Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
- Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
