Engineering Lead

John Deere John Deere · Industrial · Urbandale, IA +1 · Technology (CA)

John Deere is seeking an Engineering Lead to lead software delivery teams in developing web applications for their Operations Center, focusing on precision agriculture technology. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and driving adoption of strategic technologies and best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead one to two software delivery teams to enable the development of John Deere Operations Center web applications.
  2. Provide engineering leadership in web application development defining design best practices, creating a common design system, and analyzing application performance.
  3. Collaborate closely with Engineering Leads, Product Managers, Architects, User Experience, and other supporting teams to define product requirements and application designs.
  4. Mentor, coach and develop your direct reports. This includes providing frequent on-going feedback/guidance on individual performance and career development.
  5. Attract, retain, and grow great engineering talent within your team and throughout our organization.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated experience leading software development teams
  • Demonstrated experience as a primary technical team leader/mentor
  • Demonstrated experience building web-client or server-side applications/services
  • Demonstrated experience with Agile development methodologies including Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration/Deployment
  • Demonstrated experience with build and test pipeline automation, monitoring, and other DevOps methodologies
  • Demonstrated experience with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud

Nice to have

  • Experience leading teams providing shared services for multiple teams in an organization
  • Experience as manager, including individual performance management, career development, and hiring
  • Experience with Precision Ag technologies and their use
  • Advanced Computer Science, Engineering, IT-related, or business-related degree

What the JD emphasized

  • web applications
  • software development teams
  • technical leadership