Engineering Manager for Natural Catastrophe platforms and systems

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In this role you would have the outstanding possibility to work on some of the most exciting engineering challenges the industry can offer. You craft and implement reliable, highly parallelized applications hosted on Azure, our public cloud hosting platform of choice. 
 
In close collaboration with natural catastrophe experts, you lead the design, implementation and testing of our core applications. 
 
Numerous challenges make this work exciting. High availability and extreme scaling requirements are equally important as quality and security aspects. Do you feel up for it, then apply now! 
 
The NatCat Engineering Manager leads the engineering organization responsible for delivering and operating critical Natural Catastrophe (NatCat) platforms and systems. The role combines engineering leadership, people management, technical strategy, and operational accountability to ensure reliable, scalable, and business-aligned technology solutions that support business strategies. 
 
You will drive engineering excellence, enable high-performing teams, partner with business stakeholders, and ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives across the NatCat technology landscape. The role requires balancing long-term platform evolution with operational stability and business delivery commitments. 

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & People Management:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, platform engineers, and technical specialists. 
- Create a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 
- Conduct performance, career development, hiring, succession planning, and talent management activities. 
- Support engineers in growing technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and AI adoption practices. 
 
Technical Strategy & Architecture:
- Define and drive the technology roadmap for NatCat platforms and services. 
- Guide architectural decisions and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic objectives. 
- Promote engineering best practices across software development, testing, security, cloud adoption, and operational excellence. 
- Drive modernization initiatives and continuous improvements to platform scalability, resiliency, and maintainability. 
- Champion adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and emerging technologies. 
 
Product Delivery & Execution:
- Own successful delivery of engineering commitments across NatCat products and programs. 
- Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders to convert strategy into executable roadmaps. 
- Manage priorities, dependencies, capacity planning, and resource allocation. 
- Ensure delivery predictability, quality, and transparency through data-driven decision making. 

Zamestnanecké výhody, benefity:

​​- kindergarten - available in our building
​​- yearly salary re-evaluation
​​- hybrid type of home-office
​​- flexible working time
​​- sick days
​​- MultiSport card
​​- mental & medical health support
​​- public transport donation​​

Informácie o výberovom konaní:
In case of interest, please send your CV to: rastislav.srnka@sourcefirstinternational.com .
We have many open positions for IT specialists, not only in Slovakia and Czech Republic, but also on other foreign projects.

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Requirements

Required Qualifications: 
- Significant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or technology delivery. 
- Demonstrated success managing large scale business-critical applications and services. 
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. 
- Strategic thinking and execution focus. 
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities. 
 
Leadership Skills:
- Experience leading engineering teams in complex enterprise environments. 
- Experience operating within large scale agile delivery models. 
- Strong people leadership and coaching capabilities. 
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change. 
 
Technical Skills:
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture. 
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, automation, and platform engineering practices. 
- Knowledge of software quality, security, and operational excellence principles. 
- Background in software development (preferably in Java) 

Nice to Have Skills

- Experience with data-intensive and analytics-driven applications is advantageous.