Tribe Lead
Midigator
Madrid, Spain
Posted on Apr 12, 2026
Role Purpose: The Tribe Leader is accountable for the assigned systems, operations, finances, development, performance as well as the employees for one of the Technology Tribes in the Iberian Region (Spain & Portugal). Working closely with the Tribe’s IT Leadership team, this role ensures that it delivers on solutions in sprints while adhering to and continuously improving on the Engineering principles.
The Tribe Leader also ensures all delivery is compliant with relevant Equifax policies and procedures and follows Agile delivery methodology principles and it is accountable for achieving the Tribe’s key performance indicators.
The Tribe Leader co-creates and executes the Tribe strategy by collaborating with relevant leaders from Technology, Product, Operations, D&A, Finance and Delivery organisations.
The Tribe Leader has an in-depth understanding of the Tribe’s application portfolio, risks, issues, total cost of ownership and key investment initiatives.
Key Accountabilities:
Internal:
The Tribe Leader also ensures all delivery is compliant with relevant Equifax policies and procedures and follows Agile delivery methodology principles and it is accountable for achieving the Tribe’s key performance indicators.
The Tribe Leader co-creates and executes the Tribe strategy by collaborating with relevant leaders from Technology, Product, Operations, D&A, Finance and Delivery organisations.
The Tribe Leader has an in-depth understanding of the Tribe’s application portfolio, risks, issues, total cost of ownership and key investment initiatives.
Key Accountabilities:
- Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners. Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
- Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters. Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers. Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
- Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps, KPIs.
- Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
- Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
- Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
- Provides coaching, leadership and talent development; ensures teams functions as a high-performing team; able to identify performance gaps and opportunities for upskilling and transition when necessary.
- Drives culture of accountability through actions and stakeholder engagement and expectation management
- Develop the long-term technical vision and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems
- Bachelor's degree or 7-12 years of software engineering experience.
- Led design and development of solutions using event-driven
- Worked with SREs and dev teams to define and maintain SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX quality engineering standards
- Collaborated with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices. Collaborated with Product with a product mindset.
- Multicultural awareness: Managed multiple development squads based on India Product Engineering Center (PEC) at a supervisory capacity
- Implemented architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, EOSL decisions, and continuous improvements whilst ensuring EHB guidelines
- Created and delivered technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
- Experience of building and managing strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale
- Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.
- Deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure
- Strong experience of full stack software development and public cloud like GCP.
Internal:
- Business Stakeholders: Product/Platform/Ops/D&A/Sales and similar
- IT Team: Other Tribe Leaders, Delivery Leads, Offshore Delivery Leads, Tech BA Lead, TPO, SRE among others.
- Customers
- Partners
- Cloud Providers (Google mainly, others like AWS…)
- Service Providers