Technical Delivery Lead

Company Description

At Coface, we make trade happen everyday.

Our 5,200 experts representing 80+ nationalities in 58 countries are united by a shared purpose: helping companies navigate through uncertainty by empowering them to make the right decisions and trade smarter in a complex world.

With nearly 80 years of global experience, we offer companies a full range of solutions: Trade Credit Insurance, Business Information, Debt Collection, SingleRisk insurance, Surety Bonds, Factoring — all driven by a unique data patrimony, cutting-edge technology, innovation and a deep understanding of the global economy.

Joining Coface means being part of a close-knit international organization, where your ideas matter.  We foster a culture of learning, collaboration and inclusion where you are given responsibilities and can see the impact of your actions.

Shape the future of trade with us. Join our Happeners!

Job Description

DELIVERY OWNERSHIP 

• Own squad delivery, including planning, estimation, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement, releases, operations, and ongoing product maintenance. 
• Align the product roadmap, technical runway, and available capacity. 
• Set realistic commitments, anticipate risks and dependencies, remove blockers and drive recovery actions. 
• Ensure every release is secure, tested, supportable and operationally ready; escalate early with options. 
• Communicate with key stockholders about deliveries, issues and risks. Be a leader within the transformation program (called Everest), highlight dependencies and tackle them when necessary. 

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

• Work with Product Owners, analysts and architects to clarify needs, challenge gaps and shape deliverable requirements. 
• Understand business processes, existing applications, code, data flows and integrations to define pragmatic designs and transition paths. 
• Guide architecture and implementation choices, including non-functional requirements, observability and technical debt trade-offs. 
• Conduct peer reviews to improve quality and help engineers develop. 
• Explore relevant technologies, share findings, and build support among peers. 

ENGINEERING QUALITY AND OPERATIONS

• Oversee design and code reviews, CI/CD quality gates, secure-by-design practices and a robust Definition of Done. 
• Drive durable resolution of complex incidents through root-cause analysis and corrective actions. 
• Maintain clear architecture decisions and prioritise technical debt based on value, risk, and capacity. 

TEAM AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP 

• Lead developers day to day, mentor engineers and strengthen knowledge sharing across the BDC community. 
• Use Agile practices to improve flow and decision-making, and participate in SAFe ceremonies with other delivery teams. 
• Protect delivery focus, coordinate distributed contributors and represent BI Technology locally in Romania. 
• Build strong KPI to track progress (Velocity, predictability, software quality, production stability, production defect reduction) 
• Grow your talents – as a manager hire key talents which will complement your team, coach and nurture team members 

Qualifications

You combine the judgement of a senior engineer with the ownership mindset of a delivery leader. 

• 8+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership or technology delivery. 
• Proven ownership of complex digital products or platforms and experience leading distributed, cross-functional teams. 
• Strong Java / Angular full-stack understanding across applications, APIs, integration, data, infrastructure, security and front-end concerns. 
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms through phased migration or coexistence strategies. 
• Practical knowledge of API-led and event-driven integration, data-intensive applications, CI/CD, containers and cloud or hybrid environments. 
• Strong appetite and interest for Business Information functionally. A strong analytical capability to dig into business processes and data. 
• Ability to manage delivery risk, quality gates and production readiness in a regulated environment. 
• Fluent English and confidence communicating with engineering, business and executive stakeholders. 
• You will participate in the Engineering platform committee. We expect you to influence the technical decisions of the department and be a leader in defining the company's tech strategy. 

TECHNICAL LANDSCAPE 

• Architecture: REST or gRPC APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, integration, orchestration, UML and C4. 
• Engineering: GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent; Docker, Kubernetes, Helm; API gateways; cloud and infrastructure fundamentals, Kafka, RabbitMQ 
• Data and AI: Data pipelines, governance and data-centric designs; AI/ML and agentic workloads are an advantage. 
• Reliability: Observability, performance, resilience, threat modelling, Zero Trust and secure software delivery. 
• Delivery: Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent; Confluence; dashboards and delivery reporting tools. 
• Languages: Java, Python 
• OS: Linux, Windows 

Additional Information

What We Offer

• Involvement in a strategic, innovation-focused project with strong business impact
• Exposure to modern technologies and cloud-based architecture
• Cross-border collaboration with teams in CER countries
• A supportive and agile working environment
• Opportunities for growth and development in a fast-paced, high-impact area

What is it like to work at Coface? 

This is a hybrid role based in our Bucharest office. We encourage our employees to take care of themselves with things like short Fridays, private healthcare, vouchers – meal, vacation, gift, and more