Tech Team Lead Content Platforms

Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values ​​of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

YOUR MISSION:

Richemont is looking for a talented and highly motivated Technical Team Lead to join our enthusiastic and dynamic CONTENT PLATFORMS Product Area in Meyrin.

The concerned product team counts 7 people and is specialized in the development of various content exposing systems using various integration types (Push/Pull) and technologies (Javascript, Headless CMS, Search Engine, JAVA, GraphQL, REST, …). The content can be Asset, Product Data, Editorial Content, …

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background (React.js, Headless CMS, Search Engines, JAVA, GraphQL, SQL, …), leveraging AI in their daily activities, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for driving results. As a Technical Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of Development Engineers and Business Analysts in achieving their goals and contributing to the overall success of the Product Area. You will also play a key role in mentoring and developing team members, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?

• Lead and motivate a team of Development Engineers and Business Analysts by providing guidance, support, and development opportunities.

• Cultivate and foster a #OneTeam mindset

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including team members, managers, other Product Area and Maisons teams.

• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination

• Organize or attend regular meetings to discuss progress, address challenges, and provide feedback.

• Support the Product Area Manager in the preparation of Quarterly Alignment Days (PI Planning like)

• Implement product goals and objectives with the team, ensuring alignment with Product Owners and Product Area Manager.

• Collaborate with the Product Owners to develop release plans, including release date and scope.

• Ensure that the product backlog is well-groomed, prioritized and has actionable items for the next sprint and the next release.

• Collaborate with the Solution Architect to ensure that solution designs match the architecture vision.

• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Lead and Test Engineers to ensure the quality of the deliveries.

• Collaborate/coordinate with the Support Lead and Support Engineers in case of questions, operations or incidents.

• Ensure that key information (such as environment status and important milestones) is shared with the Product Owner and the Product Area Manager.

• Manage the timesheets and monitor the team’s budget consumption.

• Monitor team performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance productivity and efficiency.

• Create reports and share to a large audience the results of the team.

• Co-build communication material with Product Owners for business stakeholders. 

HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?

• MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

• Proven experience as a Technical Team Lead on large and global projects

• Experience playing the Technical Team Lead role for at least 3 years for a software development team.

• Experience with Agile Methodologies.

• Knowledge of the following technologies: CMS Headless (Contentstack, Contentful, Strapi,...), Search Engines (Algolia, ElasticSearch,…),HTML, React.js, Node.js, Gemini Code Assistant or equivalent , Sitecore Content Hub (Saas) ,ProductsUp (Saas) ,GraphQL , MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS S3 ,Cloudwatch, loudfront, Akamai,Datadog, HashiCorp Vault , Java Springboot, Java, Microservices , REST, IntelliJ , Gitlab ,Camel, AmazonMQ, ActiveMQ, Solace

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games

• Knowledge of the Atlassian Suite, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket or Gitlab.

• Strong knowledge of Release Management: code branching, code versioning and trunk based Development.

• Good ability to mentor, motivate and inspire a development team

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

• Ability to communicate with technical and business teams (all levels)

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills

• Ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, distributed environment with high expectations 

• Fluency in English and French

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