Software Development Manager / Engineering Manager

As Manager, you will oversee a group of engineers and work with cross-functional teams to build and deliver high quality software for laboratories and hospitals. You will be responsible for leading a team focused on software applications development for software products that meet customer requirements, expected delivery dates, and quality standards in order to meet or exceed the department and companys business objectives.

Essential Functions

• Provides input to product strategy and roadmap deliverables, including assessment/estimates for new features, regulatory requirements, and introduction of new technologies.
• Manages large to moderate-sized applications software development projects evaluating and taking accountability for progress and results
• Ensures projects are completed on time and according to corporate quality standards.
• Prioritizes schedules and allocates resources for software development projects in accordance with the Product Roadmap.
• Performs or facilitates all aspects of project planning on customer-support related projects, including coordination resources, schedules, task assignment, project milestones, risk assessment, recommendations, and status reporting
• Promotes a culture that instills a focus on the customer by understanding their needs and delivering value with each interaction.
• Researches escalations from support when a more technical skill set is required and recommends solutions to customer reported problems.
• Communicates to other internal departments on the status of resolution to customer issues, participates heavily in the user acceptance process of a new release and developing and delivering resolutions to customer problems as appropriate.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills needed to be successful

• Strong ability to organize, prioritize, make decisions, and drive positive results
• Proven leadership and people skills including the ability to delegate responsibility effectively and hold people accountable.
• Demonstrated planning skills to determine and meet departmental objectives.
• Understanding of software development methodologies and industry accepted software quality standards.
• Resourcefulness and ability to take the initiative in development and completion of work projects.
• Superior Ability to work and communicate with clients and other departments in an effective and positive manner
• Excellent understanding of the business applications deployed in healthcare organizations or the ability to apply unrelated knowledge to the healthcare industry.
• Successful track record leading or managing major projects in a regulated environment.

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Software Engineering, related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 14 years of software development or related experience with proven success at meeting deliverable deadlines at measurable levels of quality.
• Minimum 4 years management experience

Preferred technical Skills:

• Experience in any programming language, .Net stack of technologies highly preferred.
• Experience in API Testing (ideally RESTful APIs, using http client).
• Experience in working Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to Cloud technologies( AWS,AZURE ), DevOps ( CI/CD)
• Any experience with healthcare sector is highly desirable but not compulsory.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• 5-15 direct reports