Engineering Practices Lead Jobs at IFS in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

IFS delivers award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

As Engineering Practices Lead you set the direction and provide alignment across the R&D organization of more than 1200 people when it comes to establishing, developing and implementing engineering practices and ways of working. You lead the work around our 7-Stages Development Process methodology to ensure all teams are at point for timely delivery of high quality, secure and performant software. You drive the adoption of best practices and processes whilst you look to continuously improve our ways of working and continue to drive our transformation towards DevSecOps.

Reporting to the COO within R&D and being part of the leadership team in the COO Office, you will build your own central team and at the same time get the opportunity to use your coaching and leadership skills to lead through others and drive anchoring and collaboration across R&D. You will furthermore be responsible for building engineering practices skills through our community of practice in close collaboration with our leadership team.

You have a good understanding of how various tools such as Jira and Confluence can support the business in implementing changes and tracking progress and understand the importance of well-documented processes and governance structures.

To be successful as Engineering Practices Lead, having a positive attitude and a “can-do” mindset is key. You are a “do’er” yourself and can make things happen. We expect you to think outside the box and be a front runner when it comes to challenging status quo in the strive for improvements.

As a person you are comfortable taking decisions, ensuring execution and managing change – both in the process and project context. You are strong communicator and have the ability to make the complex simple.

You have a relevant academic degree and a proven track record for delivery and execution in a cloud first environment, successfully managing initiatives within large, complex B2B software products. You will have successfully worked with planning, process management, documentation and training in an engineering context. It is a must that you have experience in scaling Lean and Agile practices with a DevOps mindset.

Your background is probably from software engineering, systems engineering or similar. To be able to handle this role you will have to work effectively in an internationally distributed, multi-cultural team across many time zones.