Key areas of focus include
Cloud-native provisioning and lifecycle automation for distributed compute environments.
Platform services for orchestration, scaling, and configuration management across public cloud platforms.
Serverless and event-driven automation frameworks for infrastructure workflows.
Secure and reliable connectivity enablement for cloud-deployed compute systems.
We are looking for a candidate to join our fast-paced and cutting-edge development organization that is on the forefront of our “Teradata Everywhere” strategy.
Teradata Labs, the technology research and development (R&D) organization within Teradata Corporation, has been turning innovative decision support technology into business results for over 30 years. Our R&D team of analytic architects, database developers and engineers work to understand and advance emerging technologies to invent the next wave of cutting-edge analytic data solutions.
Responsibilities
The position involves leading one or more software engineering teams responsible for the development, integration, functional and performance testing, and fault analysis of our cloud platform services across public cloud environments. The manager will be responsible for:
Providing and communicating the engineering vision for your team, aligned with the long-term cloud platform strategy.
Ensuring the timely delivery of committed features.
Liaising with other engineering teams, project management, and product management, as well as networking, security, and cloud infrastructure teams.
Mentoring, providing career growth opportunities, satisfying administrative requirements, and maintaining accountability for direct reports.
Providing engineering leadership in support escalations as needed.
Partnering with architects and senior technical leaders to drive scalability, reliability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity across the platform.
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, empathetic, and creative engineering leader who is ready to participate in an agile team environment and contribute to the success of Teradata. Given our team’s focus on cloud platform solutions, the ideal candidate should have deep hands-on cloud experience on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
Job Functions
Manager of an agile development team responsible for Teradata cloud platform services.
Collaborates with engineering leadership and project management to set the development priorities of the team.
Holds direct reports accountable for their individual responsibilities, and is accountable to reports for their career growth.
Performs various administrative functions related to the management of direct reports, including time sheet approvals, leave approvals, promotion applications, etc.
Identifies areas for improvement and collaborates with leadership on executing plans for positive change within the organization.
Qualifications
Leadership
Proven engineering leadership experience, preferably with direct reports.
Experience working in a fast-paced agile scrum development environment.
Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive engineering alignment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Technical
Deep hands-on experience building and operating systems on at least one major public cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Strong programming expertise in Python or similar languages used for infrastructure and platform engineering.
Extensive experience designing large-scale cloud-native platforms or distributed infrastructure systems.
Strong understanding of multi-cloud architecture, cloud networking, IAM, service quotas, and multi-region deployments.
Experience designing infrastructure automation and provisioning systems using cloud APIs, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code tools.
Experience building event-driven or serverless platform architectures.
Strong experience designing highly scalable distributed systems.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Nice to Have
Experience designing multi-cloud platforms or cross-cloud infrastructure services.
Experience building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure used across large organizations.
Experience working with Kubernetes-based platforms or container orchestration systems.
Experience building large-scale provisioning or orchestration systems.
Experience with Teradata Vantage.
Minimum Education and Residency Requirements
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 6+ years of relevant experience.
