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OverDrive is hiring a Team Lead (SRE) responsible for ensuring system performance and reliability while leading a technical team. The role involves driving execution through leadership and individual technical contributions, aligning team efforts with business priorities, and collaborating with development and product leadership to manage project staffing and deliverables.

Highlights

Leads team alignment with business priorities and manages project scope and timelines.
Works closely with technical leads and stakeholders to set priorities and remove roadblocks.
Provides technical contributions without causing bottlenecks in the team's progress.
Creates the team's technical roadmap and ensures its execution.
Conducts one-on-one meetings and performance reviews; evaluates individual staff performance.
Identifies and resolves single points of failure in people, knowledge, or systems.
Communicates project timelines, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
Collaborates on cross-team projects and frames strategic technical debt with cost/benefit analysis.
Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field with strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Interacts effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to communicate status and drive project results.

Team Lead (SRE) Full Description

Team Lead (SRE)

Software Development & QA Cleveland, Ohio

Description

This position will require you to be in the Greater Cleveland, OH Area
We are presently in a hybrid schedule, 2 days on campus and 3 days WFH

The Team Lead (SRE) is responsible for system performance and reliability. They are expected to drive execution via leadership and individual contribution to the technical solutions. They lead the team in determining scope and timelines for their immediate work. They work with Development and Product leadership to ensure the appropriate staffing of projects and alignment with business priorities. They may work with senior Developers and Enterprise Architects to ensure their team’s work is well thought out and aligned with the rest of the department.

Responsibilities:

Ensures team is aligning work with business priorities.
Works with technical lead to ensure staff alignment is appropriate to address work demand.
Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team.
Able to make technical contributions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
Collaborates with stakeholders to set the team’s priorities.
Responsible for aligning the team’s work to stakeholder priorities and ensuring efficient delivery.
Creates roadmap and dictates technical direction of the team and ensures execution on that direction to support teams and stakeholders.
Works with technical lead to evaluate individual performance.
Responsible for conducting regular one-on-ones and performance reviews.
Identifies single points of failure in our alignment of people, knowledge, or systems and works to resolve them.
Communicates timeline, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
Collaborates with peers to deliver cross-team projects.
Able to identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it.
As a member of the leadership team, demonstrates through decisions, actions, and words a commitment to OverDrive’s mission, our sustainability, and community outreach initiatives.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in related field.
Problem solving skills with the ability to understand and communicate specifics of new technologies.
Able to define and drive development of solutions to meet the needs of the company.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple projects considering company priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to communicate needs, status, and drive results.

What’s Next:

As you’ve probably guessed, OverDrive is a place that values individuality and variety. We don’t want you to be like everyone else, we don’t even want you to be like us—we want you to be like you! So, if you're interested in joining the OverDrive team, apply below and tell us what inspires you about OverDrive and why you think you are perfect for our team.

OverDrive values diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

#LI-DNI

Original Job Description

Team Lead (SRE)

Software Development & QA Cleveland, Ohio

Description

This position will require you to be in the Greater Cleveland, OH Area
We are presently in a hybrid schedule, 2 days on campus and 3 days WFH

Responsibilities:

Ensures team is aligning work with business priorities.
Works with technical lead to ensure staff alignment is appropriate to address work demand.
Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team.
Able to make technical contributions without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
Collaborates with stakeholders to set the team’s priorities.
Responsible for aligning the team’s work to stakeholder priorities and ensuring efficient delivery.
Creates roadmap and dictates technical direction of the team and ensures execution on that direction to support teams and stakeholders.
Works with technical lead to evaluate individual performance.
Responsible for conducting regular one-on-ones and performance reviews.
Identifies single points of failure in our alignment of people, knowledge, or systems and works to resolve them.
Communicates timeline, scope, and technical concerns to upper management.
Collaborates with peers to deliver cross-team projects.
Able to identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it.
As a member of the leadership team, demonstrates through decisions, actions, and words a commitment to OverDrive’s mission, our sustainability, and community outreach initiatives.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in related field.
Problem solving skills with the ability to understand and communicate specifics of new technologies.
Able to define and drive development of solutions to meet the needs of the company.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple projects considering company priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to communicate needs, status, and drive results.

What’s Next:

OverDrive values diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

#LI-DNI

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