🌐 Engineering Director – Telecom & Software Solutions 🌐
Are you a hands-on technical leader with a passion for building high-performance teams and delivering world-class telecom and software solutions? We’re looking for an Engineering Director to take the helm of our engineering function — balancing strategic vision with active involvement in architecture, design, and delivery.
This is an opportunity to shape the technical direction of mission-critical platforms used by global telecom providers, while mentoring top-tier engineering talent and staying close to the code.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead & Inspire: Manage and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and accountability.
- Stay Hands-On: Engage directly with architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and problem-solving.
- Drive Delivery Excellence: Oversee the development of scalable, secure, and resilient telecom and software platforms.
- End-to-End Ownership: Guide the full software development lifecycle — from requirements and architecture through to deployment and operations.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product management, solution architects, and sales engineering to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
- Innovate for Scale: Introduce best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native deployment to accelerate time-to-market.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven track record in a senior engineering leadership role within telecom and/or enterprise software industries
- Programming: Java (primary), plus exposure to Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
- Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB.
- Messaging & Integration: Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST, gRPC, SOAP.
- DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible.
- Telecom Technologies: BSS/OSS, 5G Core, Diameter, SIP, VoIP, Charging & Billing Systems.
- Strong grasp of Microservices architecture, API-first design, and distributed systems.
- Experience with application security, performance tuning, and high availability design.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
About Us
Oliver Peters is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, ex-forces status or any other basis. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need and we are committed to a fair hiring process.
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