Description
Ciklum is looking for a Java Principal Lead to join our team full-time in the Czech Republic.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organisations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Java Principal Lead, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Ciklum is looking for an empathic Java Principal Lead to join our strong and professional team in our Java delivery center. You must be talented, experienced, and eager to lead highly capable Java teams to design, develop, and launch modern products for international enterprise clients.
You will aim to make your local Java center of excellence to be a great place to work. You will work closely with the global head of the center of excellence to have a consistent, scalable, and world-class Java organization. You will strive to make the local Java center of excellence a great place to work, a place to accelerate your career and become a leader.
This role will set up the foundations in the local Java center of excellence, implementing the standards for Java center of excellence and ways of working.
You will drive to make Ciklum recognized in the market as the leading product engineering services company and grow with high quality.
You will be an inspiring and motivating leader, creating an esteeming culture, a confident decision-maker, helping our business, our people, and our clients to succeed in their endeavors.
Responsibilities
As Java Principal Lead you will lead a team in your local market and report directly to the Local Head of Product Engineering and Global Head of Centre of Excellence.
You will be responsible for building a high-performing team that receives internal recognition. To create an environment that your team recognizes as a great place to work and build their careers. To support Java strategy and support the local Centre of Excellence community.
Their focus is:

• Support on client pre-sales and engagements directly as a billable SME
• Supports Global Head of Co E and Local Head of Product Engineering
• Deploying standards such as the engineering grades, technical interview approach, toolsets, and other enabling artifacts for recruitment, deployment, and delivery
• Deploying career paths, L&D paths, knowledge sharing, competency matrix, and other enabling artifacts for Ciklumers in their Co E
• Reports directly to their delivery center’s Head of Product Engineering and has a dotted line into their Global Head of Co E

Internal Responsibilities:

• Creating an inclusive and welcoming environment within the [x] Centre of Excellence that drives a community that grows and retains talent
• Formal line management responsibilities of your direct reports including
• Setting and being accountable for team performance metrics and KPIs
• Representing your direct reports in the formal annual performance management process
• Active mentorship and career coaching of your team
• Creating an inclusive, motivating environment where your team feels empowered and excited to come to work

Client Facing Responsibilities:

• Acting as an Engineering technical lead on a client account to drive product engineering excellence, provide outstanding client service/advice and push for the highest quality and innovation within the client’s products

Requirements

• Plenty of practical Product Engineering experience in either fast growth, post-series-A companies or enterprises
• Experience in collaborating with designers, product managers, architects, delivery and development teams and the aptitude to motivate inter-functional teams
• Setting clear and attainable goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multi-tasking activities, and prioritization
• Performance management – manage individuals and groups, set performance targets, monitor progress against agreed quality and performance criteria

What's in it for you

• Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and Mental Health (Soulmio) programs. We also provide you with meal allowance & company-paid yoga classes to fuel your mind and body
• Development as a mindset: feel free to participate in building an IT community in your country (Czechitas workshops, lectures on universities, local Dev Talk meetups etc.) during working time. Regular annual performance reviews with your manager will help you keep the right growth focus
• Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops) and external (international conferences, our formats of knowledge sharing)
• Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up
• Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. We offer more than 100 projects you can rotate between: we work with top-notch technologies for international clients (Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria etc.) in various domains (banking, health care, e-commerce, construction, logistics)
• Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events, including weekly breakfasts

About us:
Join a well-established company and a strong team of professionals.
Seize the perks of global opportunities, local approach and start-up spirit.
Boost your skills with modern stacks and industry-leading clients!
Enjoy what you do, do what you enjoy!
Want to learn more about us?
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Linked In, stop by one of our IT meetups Nalejvárna or listen to podcast Pod Vocasem.
Be bold, not bored!
Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together
Interested already?

We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.