Client Technology - Engineering Portfolio Leader

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.

Your 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 and attributes for success

• 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
• Outstanding self-management influence management information presentation and interpersonal communication

• Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.