Technical Lead

About The Position

The Technical Lead provides oversight and leadership to an IT technical delivery team. This position supervises team members, identifies and manages skillsets within the capacity of the team, and ensures successful delivery execution of assigned Agile epics. The Technical Lead partners with business owner(s) to ensure technical considerations are appropriately prioritized for the team’s digital products and business capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the digital enablement of business workflows.
• Hire, attract, and retain talent for the delivery organization.
• Communicate and reinforce the desired work culture, including a focus on personal and process safety.
• Recognize accomplishments and team member contributions.
• Build team alignment, ensuring the team has a clear understanding of the business global priorities.
• Enable others to work effectively and collaboratively in a multi-discipline, multi-function, multi-cultural, and matrix environment.
• Support the business and IT managers in managing the overall performance of the Platform, aligning teams with the rest of the global platform, and escalating any team concerns.
• Ensure prioritization and capacity allocation are done to delivery on the business strategy/objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery partners, including peers at other locations, to execute the platform’s prioritized and strategic initiatives.
• Provide technical support and mentoring to junior staff.
• Promote best practice and common standards and technology usage within the team.
• Manage performance and development of technical team members.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or comparable field.
• Minimum 5-10 years’ experience in managing development and operations based IT teams including business planning, vendor management, resource planning, talent management and support of software solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and provide solution architecture guidance.
• Technical proficiency in Microsoft software related to Azure and especially Visualization type tools for real-time data needs.
• Experience digitally enabling oil and gas business workflows.
• Broad technical IT experience related to solution performance, reliability, cybersecurity, IT compliance, outsourcing, modernization, and agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience hiring and managing team supervisors.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to be well-organized, clear and concise in conversations and written communications.
• Self-driven, can work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment.
• Team player who exhibits effective interpersonal skills with a collaborative style.
• English language (Advanced) Team player with excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience in digitally enabling oil and gas business workflows is preferred.

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.

Key skills/competency

• Team Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Azure Cloud Services
• Data Visualization
• Solution Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Talent Management
• IT Compliance
• Cybersecurity
• Digital Transformation