Senior Director of Cloud Software Development (Remote)

About our group:

Are you interested in joining a high performing team of dedicated experts to break new ground and develop new paths to revenue for Seagate?  Are you ready to leverage your extensive industry knowledge working with CSPs to grow new consumption-based services through marketplace? Then the Seagate Solutions and Services group is where you want to be!  We are an entrepreneurial-spirited, global business development team, trailblazing new services and solutions for Seagate to solve the largest data mobility challenges. Upsetting the status quo, challenging the norm and solutioning new ways to move, store and access data from edge to the cloud. The Lyve Services team is where you will learn, get awesome experience, be part of change, and make life-long friends. This team “makes” things!

About the role - you will:

We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Cloud engineering leader to join our Lyve organization. The candidate should have a strong technical background in S3 cloud platforms and cloud data domains, should be a thought leader, have exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills and be an analytical and structured thinker. The right candidate should have a demonstrable track record of successfully developing cloud architecture frameworks, designing, and delivering modern cloud data platform solutions, cloud migrations, cloud-native solutions and helped drive Cloud Practice growth.

We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence in developing roadmaps and blueprints for S3 cloud and block storage platforms, building, and leading a team of technical cloud architects and engineers and delivering transformational business outcomes. 

• Manage overall architecture, design, implementation, and testing of Cloud platform projects.
• Stay abreast of cloud technology trends, advancements, and best practices.
• Build and maintain architecture artifacts, design processes and best practices, provide technical oversight to architects and engineers.
• Prototype solutions and develop proof-of-concept.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.

About you:

•    Experienced with agile development process and methodologies.
•    Strong knowledge of cloud service providers, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management and container technologies. 
•    A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures, containers and serverless technologies.
•    Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling and DevOps 
•    Proven experience with large scale distributed & cloud-based technologies such as Kubernetes, Hazelcast, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Containers, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop. 
•    Large-scale software/application development with coding experience in some of the following: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, PHP etc. 
•    Experience managing a team of global architects, software developers, and QA organizations.
•    Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams. 
•    Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels. 
•    Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders. 
•    Strong relationship management skills. 
•    Solid business acumen. 
•    Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation, and accountability. 
•    Fast learner on both technical and business side. 
•    Strong customer centric mindset. 
•    Comfortable operating in a matrix setup 
•    Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude. 
•    Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings. 
•    Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities. 
•    Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
•    Use technical expertise and visionary capabilities to ensure the Lyve cloud platform services are a key differentiator for Seagate, you will drive the engineering vision and strategy for how the platform is designed and delivered.
•    Manage teams' budget, advocate for the removal of technical debt, assist and support team effectiveness. 
•    Champion and effectively utilize Agile methodology and practices by partnering with aligned Architects and Product Owners to strive for elite engineering teams.
•    Understand the business domain and product vision; in partnership with other team members to align the work of the team toward the shared goals for the product. 
•    Monitor team effectiveness, quality of work, and quickly address issues/performance affecting team productivity. 
•    Support team members in addressing or escalating issues to make the overall team more efficient. 
•    Remove roadblocks and obstacles; manage interdependencies when needed. 
•    Initiate and foster collaborative partnerships with current and potential customers, technology and business managers, vendors, and technology executives; develops relationships that support increasing efficiency and effectiveness. 
•    Coach and evaluate the performance and quality of work delivered by team members, create a motivating and respectful work environment for teams, and ensure that your team is constantly learning and delivering quality code while driving cross-functional alignment with other parts of Lyve organization. 
•    Provide relevant technical coaching and support to team members. Hires talent and actively engages in recruiting processes. 
•    Participate in the development of business and/or technology vision, strategies, critical success factors, and operating plans for application, unit, or platform. 
•    Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, assess their needs, and be able to build an effective organization. 
•    Ability to drive career development, creating an environment in which engineers can grow appropriately in a challenging technical area. 
•    Ability to lead an organization to ambitious standards of metrics-validated engineering excellence. 
•    Excellent product sensibility, with the capability to drive key product innovations or opportunities. Education and Experience
•    You should have hands-on senior leadership experience, and a strong belief in transparency and accountability. You have hands-on experience that has fueled your knowledge and experience on your journey into leadership. You have experience hiring and developing the skills and talents of others.
•    Experience managing and establishing automated controls for 3rd party audits (SOX, SOC-II, etc). 
•    Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices. 
•    Experience implementing software delivery process such as Agile across multiple teams or organizations.
•    Strong track record of delivering results and are able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities with various business stakeholders. 
•    Experience leading Architecture/Principal level engineers.
•    Experience leading cloud cost optimization efforts. 
•    Experience leading cloud security architects and compliance efforts efficiently. 
•    Lead a complex cloud infrastructure organization supporting core products, recent acquisitions, and legacy infrastructure systems.
•    Lead by example to establish a culture of technical expertise and operational accountability.
•    Sponsor and support cloud governance initiatives, establishing standards, cost monitoring, and security/compliance efforts. 
•    Identify and prioritize technical initiatives to align and integrate with business goals. 
•    Add transparency mechanisms for stakeholders into the priorities and activities of our Cloud organization.
•    Solicit requirements from collaborators and foster excellent communication with stakeholders. 
•    Hire, coach, and manage diverse teams with varying skill sets and experience. 
•    Establish training standards and performance expectations for leaders and individual contributors.
 

Your experience includes:

•    Bachelor's, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science preferred, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
•    15 years' experience building enterprise software systems, and 10 years building object storage cloud platforms.
 

Location:

U.S. Remote; #LI-Remote; Longmont, CO; Shakopee/Bloomington, MN; Fremont, CA 

Seagate is able to offer virtual employment for this position in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY.
  
The estimated base salary range for this position is $231,000 - $343,000. The individual salary is based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
 

Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including, but not limited to, eligibility for variable pay bonus, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short-and long-term disability, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, health savings account, dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts. Seagate also offers paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year and may differ depending on work location.
 

Location: Remote United States
Travel: Up to 10%