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Mgr Software Engineering -Java
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
posted 7d ago
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Job Description
- You will be responsible for leading teams to design and deliver major software components and collaborate with other managers and functions in the process.
- As a leader you will translate HMH s strategic vision and strategy into action, helping your teams understand their role in realizing this vision.
- You will be adept at building collaborative, motivated, interdependent teams who will work with product, design and architecture teams in the delivery of software products.
- You can demonstrate effective communication within the Engineering group, and across business functions.
- You are adept at coaching and performance management of team members and ensure a focus on personal career development. You play a leading role in attracting, hiring and retaining talent.
Engineering Expertise
- You will use your engineering knowledge to identify and solve problems and to foresee potential issues and risks. You will manage risks and ensure effective escalation of issues which impact other teams.
- You will promote a creative culture that stimulates innovative approaches to solving problems. You encourage proactive, open communication and collaboration within your teams and between other teams and groups.
- Quality is non-negotiable in delivery. You will ensure high quality standards and practices are followed in your team(s) and the end product is robust, high-availability best-in-class software applications.
Skills and abilities
- Demonstrated strong team leadership and mentoring skills with software developers
- Ability to solve complex problems and issues
- Understanding of and experience with large, multi-faceted and complex systems
- Ability to think strategically, and then to develop and execute plans to implement the necessary strategies that include:
- Information Services capacity planning and forecasting
- Understanding of systems development life cycle that includes knowing when and how to apply the process to software and systems development
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
- Ability to bring clarity and make progress in ambiguous or uncertain situations and environments
- Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation
Education and experience
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering
- 3 to 5 years end-to-end people management experience or Minimum five years experience successfully leading development teams
- Experience working with a team on a large project in an Agile environment
- Experience with test-driven development, building test plans, unit tests, and automated testing frameworks
- Experience in analyzing and scaling large systems, web development, Javascript frameworks (e.g., ReactJS), or DevOps/infrastructure tasks
- Experience building web services using APIs and services like REST, SOAP, etc.
- Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficient with code versioning tools such as CVS, SVN and Git
- Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/Azure) and systems like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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