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Full Stack Engineering Manager

(Python | React | Azure | PostgreSQL/PostGIS | Optimization Systems)

Role Summary

A Full Stack Engineering Manager is accountable for the end to end technical delivery, stability, and evolution of the Drill & Blast System (DBS) across frontend, backend, optimization engines, and Azure cloud infrastructure.

The role blends hands on architectural authority, people leadership, and delivery governance, ensuring DBS remains scalable, secure, and aligned with business and operational needs across mining sites.

The Manager acts as a technical decision maker and escalation point, while enabling Senior Consultants and Consultants to deliver effectively.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Ownership

Own the overall solution architecture across:

Frontend (React SPA)

Backend APIs (Python / Flask/Django)

Optimization engines (Python / NumPy / SciPy / Shapely)

Azure infrastructure and background processing

Review and approve architectural designs, technical approaches, and major refactors.

Drive architectural consistency across repositories:

DBS, dbs toolkit, blast_optimiser, dbs_tools, availability_pinger

Govern best practices around scalability, resilience, security, and performance.

Lead modernization and technical debt reduction initiatives.

Backend & Integration Oversight

Provide technical leadership for REST API platforms supporting:

Blasts, domains, pattern designs, optimizations

Environmental controls, sensitive sites, simulations

Ensure correct handling of spatial data using PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

Oversee complex integrations with systems such as:

Vulcan, Foundry, MAS, ArcGIS, IHMP

Guide teams on API versioning, performance tuning, and data integrity.

Ensure observability and supportability of backend services.

Frontend & Visualization Governance

Oversee frontend development using:

React 19, TypeScript, Vite

TanStack Router & Query, Zustand

D3.js based spatial and SVG visualizations

Ensure frontend architecture aligns with backend contracts and domain logic.

Drive usability, performance, and maintainability standards.

Review complex UI workflows (optimizers, spatial views, multi geometry handling).

Optimization & Analytical Systems Leadership

Own technical direction for blast optimization engines.

Ensure proper orchestration of optimization jobs via dbs_tools pipelines.

Govern reliability and correctness of:

Kuz Ram fragmentation models

Constraint based geometric solvers

Long running and compute intensive workloads

Act as escalation point for optimization correctness and runtime issues.

Azure, Infrastructure & DevOps

Own production readiness across Azure environments (dev, qa, uat, prod).

Govern infrastructure as code using Bicep and PowerShell.

Ensure effective use of:

Azure App Service

Azure Functions

Static Web Apps

PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Drive monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics using:

Application Insights

OpenTelemetry

Oversee CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including security and quality gates.

Delivery & Execution Management

Own delivery commitments across one or more DBS functional streams.

Ensure accurate estimation, planning, and risk management.

Lead release readiness, change management, and production stability.

Drive root cause analysis of critical production incidents.

Balance feature delivery with platform reliability and sustainability.

People Leadership & Capability Building

Manage and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants.

Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, and career development planning.

Mentor technical leaders and grow domain & system knowledge within the team.

Foster strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and collaboration.

Support succession planning and team scaling.

Stakeholder & Program Collaboration

Partner with product owners, domain experts, and operational stakeholders.

Translate business and operational needs into technical roadmaps.

Communicate architectural decisions, trade offs, and risks to leadership.

Represent engineering perspective in program and governance forums.

Problem Solving & Leadership Skills

Ability to reason about large scale distributed systems.

Strong decision making in ambiguous and high impact scenarios.

Expertise in diagnosing cross layer issues (UI, API, optimization, infra).

Proactive identification of scalability, security, and reliability risks.

Ability to balance speed, quality, and long term platform health.

Technical Expertise (Manager Level)

Backend & Data

Python (Flask), REST APIs

PostgreSQL / PostGIS

Domain driven design and integration patterns

Background jobs and asynchronous processing

Frontend (Oversight)

React, TypeScript, SPA architectures

State management and data fetching strategies

Spatial and visualization concepts (D3.js)

Optimization & Analytics

Python based optimization workflows

NumPy, SciPy, Shapely

Constraint based and geometry heavy calculation engines

Cloud, DevOps & Observability

Azure App Service, Functions, Static Web Apps

Application Insights & OpenTelemetry

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (Bicep)

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