Head of DevSecOps Center of Excellence (offline)

Description
This is a unique opportunity for a candidate looking to be a part of a growing business in the software engineering industry. As part of Ciklum Digital Engineering team, this role is to set up technical strategy for DevSecOps Center of Excellence (DevOps, Support Center, Cyber Security), develop and maintain technical roadmap, ensure competencies excellence and organizational effectiveness within the reporting team; drive solutions, products and accelerators creation within own domain in alignment with other functional disciplines.

This role will lead a team of 100+ market-leading specialists.

The perfect candidate would be a proactive and high-performance leader with proven managerial experience, able to deliver to challenging deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with experience in building a world class solutions and products to service multiple clients across varied industries.

Responsibilities
Set up technical strategy for DevSecOps (DevOps, Support Center, Cyber Security) and drive continuous innovation culture within the team
Develop, maintain and regularly update technical roadmap (unified delivery framework) and ensure a consistent approach to tracking of deliverables’ quality across reporting team
Drive solutions, products and accelerators creation within own domain in alignment with other functional disciplines
Ensure results of the DevSecOps team are communicated internally and recognized on the global arena; drive educational and knowledge sharing events
Provide expert technical advice and guidance on DevSecOps related matters to internal and external clients, bearing on the successful use of complex products and services
Support Global Solution Leaders and help customers clarify their requirements, contribute to preparing and supporting bids and sales proposals.
Participate in projects and deliver high end solutions as a leading expert
Ensure DevSecOps solutions / products are embedded into all Ciklum Digital offerings
Translate Ciklum strategy and provide ongoing business updates within reporting team and if needed address possible concerns
Lead the team of engaged talents, ensure high performance and continuous development in compliance with Ciklum processes (e.g. workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, evaluation, retention, etc); support timely internal rotation and bench management
Ensure team organizational effectiveness e.g. via maintaining healthy seniority mix

Competencies responsibilities:
Resourcing – develop plans to ensure that the organization has appropriately skilled talent to meet organizational objectives and commitments.
Performance management – manage individuals and groups, set performance targets, monitor progress against agreed quality and performance criteria.
Knowledge management – provide advice, guidance and support to adopt and embed best-practice approaches to information and knowledge management into all areas of their work.
Learning delivery – plan, schedule and deliver learning activities, based on learning objectives.
Financial management – monitor and maintain all required financial records; contribute to financial planning and budgeting.
Change management – develop implementation plans for complex requests for change and lead implementation of those changes.
Relationship management – facilitate business decision-making processes, ensure open communication and discussion between stakeholders is in place.
Innovation – execute innovation processes via developing, evolving and adopting new market trends, tools, processes.
Strategic planning – drive and contribute to the development of policies, standards and guidelines for strategy development and planning.

Requirements
7+ years in Engineering or Technology roles
3+ years of hands-on technical management experience
Recent experience in the delivery of large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
Ability to assess and report technical debt, compliance, and other risks
Ability to understand business requirements and translate into Technical solutions
Excellent interpersonal and communication including superior presentation skills and proven ability to work effectively at all organizational levels
DevOps / Security certifications is a plus.