Bilingual Development Focal

EPAM NEORIS is a Digital accelerator that helps companies enter the future, having 20 years of experience as Digital Partners of some of the largest companies in the world. We have more than 4,000 professionals in 11 countries, with our multicultural startup culture where we cultivate innovation, continuous learning to create high-value solutions for our clients.

We are looking for a Bilingual Development Focal:

•  7+ years of hands-on software development experience, with at least 3 in a tech lead or senior engineering role.
• Strong background in modern development practices: clean code, CI/CD, automated testing, code review culture.
• Experience working in distributed or nearshore/offshore delivery models.
• Background in retail tech, e-commerce, or enterprise product companies.
• Familiarity with agile / scrum delivery as a tech lead or architect (not necessarily as Scrum Master).
• Experience with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Previous client-facing or pre-sales solutioning experience.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, IaC basics) — enough to collaborate with the DevOps focal.
• High English level.

Technical governance

• Define and enforce engineering standards, coding conventions, and quality gates across Development PODs.
• Conduct architecture reviews and technical decision approvals for the POD teams.
• Identify technical risks early and escalate to the Digital Delivery Center Director with a remediation plan.
• Review sprint deliverables at key milestones.

Onboarding & team quality

• Approve engineer profiles submitted before they join a POD.
• Lead orientation sessions for every new engineer.
• Conduct the quality check-in to validate the engineer meets the bar.
• Sign off onboarding completion.

Client-facing responsibilities

• Attend bi-weekly technical sessions with stakeholders as the technical representative.
• Translate client needs into POD-level technical direction for the delivery team.
• Present technical progress, decisions, and risks at monthly reviews.
• Participate in Q-Meets when technical depth is needed.

Solutioning & pre-sales support

• Contribute to POD design and sizing during pre-sales and wave planning.
• Maintain and update solutioning documentation (runbooks, technical diagrams, process guides) per POD.
• Support the Digital Delivery Center Director in scope definition and rate card validation for Development PODs.