You will be making sure that GC has a technology stack that supports our business goals for the next 3-5 years as the overall owner for the Technical Architecture at GoCardless.
As the ultimate point of escalation for Principal Engineers across GC, you will help to identify challenges and technical interdependencies and suggest solutions to address them.
You are expected to evangelise the successful adoption and use of tooling and technologies while taking a central role in decision-making for technical, business, and organisational issues.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be running Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to drive the creation of standards across Engineering, as well as teaching/mentoring/growing/advising other domain experts, individual contributors, and teams.
You will also represent GoCardless externally when speaking at public events (conferences, user groups, meetups, webinars, etc), writing for our technical blog and contributing to open source software.
What excites you Working through complexity, defining strategy and navigating change through methodical planning. Working with stakeholders across the business to solve technical issues. Leading conversations to encourage collaboration across teams. Building technology and organisational bridges to key partners Exemplifying GoCardless’ values through code, reviews, communications, and processes (following and setting). You are an expert and thought leader who helps accelerate the adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices. What excites us Experience of leading the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the division up-to-date with modern architecture practices and helping to grow the talent within your division. Deep and broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies that affect the business. Expert in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting major portions of a production stack. An inclination towards communication, inclusion, visibility, and transparency. Somebody who has a measurable impact on the work of teams across the company.Please note, this role is initially being offered through an Employer of Record (EOR), our standard benefits package will be available upon transition to direct employment.