Engineering Manager - Identity and Access Management platform (IAM) at Canonical Ghana

Job Description

• As an Engineering Manager at Canonical you will be responsible for designing the solution and leading the team responsible for its delivery.
• Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role.
• You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Come and build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of engineers to ship open source identity solutions integrating established standards and protocols, like SAML, OpenID, Oauth, PKI, LDAP
• Build an integration layer for popular enterprise and cloud identity providers (e.g. Okta, Azure Active Directory, AWS Cognito, etc.)
• Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Ensure that your team delivers great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events

Who you are

• You have knowledge of software , standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space like OpenID, Oauth, SAML, Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory
• You have experience integrating or deploying identity and access management solutions to enterprise customers
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
• You have a software engineering background, preferably with Python, Go and Java experience
• You are familiar with Kubernetes and excited to optimise workload operations on it
• You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
• You have a bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent
• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, with a view to building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere 
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment