Engineering Lead – Cloud Development

Company Introduction

We are part of Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon group in Switzerland, a global leader in spatial measurement known for premium products and innovative solution development, supporting professionals in a diverse mix of industries, such as aerospace and defence, safety and security, construction, and manufacturing.

A range of highly advanced core technologies - EDM (Electronic Distance Measurement), GPS/GNSS technology, airborne LiDAR sensors, 3D laser scanning, tilt and angle measurement and 3D point cloud generation and CAD/CAM software.

When an entire city needs to be rendered into a 3D model in-flight, utilities buried deep under soil need to be uncovered, highly complex infrastructure projects need to be implemented and even when crime scene investigation needs to be documented – that’s Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon. More than 5,000 employees in 33 countries help us develop the latest technologies for Reality Capture, survey and measurement.

Job Description

We are a dynamic and expanding software development team dedicated to delivering innovative cloud-based services. As a leading device manufacturer, Hexagon offers significant potential to capture, store, transform, and stream data to a global customer base. To support our continued growth and evolution, we are seeking a talented and motivated Engineering Lead to join our team.

If you are a skilled professional who is passionate about developing cutting-edge applications and enjoys playing a proactive role in team leadership and management, we would be eager to hear from you!

Personal Skills

• As a disciplinary supervisor, you will be supporting for administrative processes such as time and performance management as well as recruiting

• You are a role model in the implementation of our vision and mission and support your employees in living it in their daily business

• You coach your employees with regard to their personal development, their individual strengths and their potential

• You work closely with those responsible for the specialist areas and take care of long-term skills and capacity management with the responsible system architects, for example

• Together with our project managers, scrum masters and HR managers, you are dedicated to team development and support personnel development

• You keep an eye on the overall context and, together with our HR managers, work on organizational and cultural issues as well as projects

• You actively promote personal responsibility and self-organization in your area, but also across R&D; at the same time, you promote an open feedback and error learning culture

Technical Skills

• Experience and familiarity with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS

• Professional experience developing cloud applications 

• Comfortable with DevOps practices involving configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, etc

• Strong knowledge of software and architectural design patterns

• Experience in programming using high level languages, preferable : C# .NET

• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies

• A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience managing software development teams

  
  

What makes you special

• You play an active role in people management, technical leadership and support the product management

• You have experience in coaching, team and organizational development in a technical company, preferably in the software sector

• You are characterized by strong communication skills and have experience in moderation and conflict management

• You are enthusiastic about modern work style and agile topics and are a very open-minded, solution-oriented person with a lot of energy

• At the same time, you are characterized by a very structured, strong implementation and efficient way of working

• You are fluent in English

We offer

• Competitive salary dependent on experience and qualifications

• Working with cutting-edge technologies (on the cloud side, as well with connection to GNSS/TPS devices, 3D laser scanners, massive 3D point clouds data, geospatial software)

• Excellent atmosphere and comfortable working environment 

• Friendly and helpful environment with opportunities for personal development