Technical Program Manager at Andela

Locations: Kampala, Uganda, Lagos, Nigeria

About the Role

• You will be responsible for leading teams of senior engineers to design and implement best-in-class technical programs that enable Andela’s engineers to learn efficiently.
• You will be responsible for developing the strategic direction, guiding a team and for executing against the department’s technical responsibilities.
• A clear leader to engineers, you will be responsible for understanding developer’s needs, designing programs to address them, and measurably improving developer performance.
• With your leadership Andela’s developers will learn more faster, with a better user experience.

Job Description

• Understand the talent development needs of Andela’s more senior developers
• Collect and organize data about what programs increase developer performance
• Design, and implement supplementary programs that support senior developers
• Revise existing programs with a specific focus on ensuring best-in-class technical standards
• Coach non-technical talent development team members to understand and address engineering perspectives for learning programs
• Hire and/or manage the time of senior engineers to facilitate developer growth and learning
• Define and operationalise measures of success.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years in technical project experience
• Minimum of 2 years managerial experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or similar
• Worked in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment with developers
• Has experience in setting up new operations from scratch.

Skills & Competencies:

• Entrepreneurial attitude whilst developing and empowering those supporting you
• Strong coding background in at least one of Andela’s offered stacks
• Data focused - obsessed with tracking initiatives and optimizing processes
• Decisive and able to influence others for cooperation and buy-in
• Strong presentation, interviewing, and negotiation skills
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively
• Ability to work with minimal support
• Ability to motivate and support a team of highly effective individuals.

EPIC Values Alignment:

• Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
• The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family

Interested?

• If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!