Manager Software Development

The Manager, Software Development, Data Acquisition is responsible for the day-to-day management of a technical development team. Working closely with executive director and VP , Product and other Development teams, this role executes the companys technical, architectural, and commercial product initiatives.

Required Skills-

• Experience with building and managing applications in Java/JEE.
• Experience in Microservice architecture and building and maintaining production support within the AWS ecosystem.
• Large-scale production experience with containerization and preferably container orchestration
• Working with globally distributed development teams and attain the sustainable results.
• Experience leading teams who produce high quality deliverables.
• Experience working with an international development team (eg, internal remote offices or outsourcing partners)
• Possesses a broad understanding of Agile/LEAN principles and the ability to apply the AGILE methodology.
• Ability to understand technical architecture and implementation at code level.
• Thorough understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects.
• Effectively communicate across organizational levels and with a variety of stakeholders, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to think strategically and to make difficult decisions and to drive decisions into actuality.
• Ability to understand and effectively explain up and downstream product, team, and organizational impacts.
• Ability to constructively challenge the status quo and to iterate and improve across multiple business domains.
• Ability to adapt to changing conditions and lead others through change
• Leadership and mentoring skills including the ability to lead by example, promoting a common purpose and serving as a catalyst for success
• Demonstrate emotional maturity and a positive outlook.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills
• Ability and willingness to travel to remote offices and partners, including international travel up to 4 weeks per year

Roles & Responsibilities-

• Work along with the Development, Product, and Architecture teams.
• Plan and execute the timely release process for deliverables with all stakeholders including necessary communication.
• Thinks strategically, displays a high degree of emotional maturity, and demonstrates a positive outlook.
• Displays flexibility in adapting to changing conditions and helps lead others through change.
• Understands and is able to explain up and downstream impacts across products, teams, and the organization.
• Recognizes when a broad solution is needed based on trends/root causes and recommends solutions.
• Build and evolve technical development team, ensuring capability to support roadmap requirements. Establish roadmaps and resourcing needs.
• Establish development best practices and procedures; identify and resolve problem areas.
• Socialize and educate the organization on new frameworks, processes, and solutions.
• Oversee the development and implementation of innovative and creative solutions.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with domains internal and external user base
• Meet audit, compliance, and availability standards.
• Specify and scope product features and define acceptance criteria.
• Assess risks and dependencies and identify mitigation strategies.
• Participate in department - wide special projects, including coordination activities to resolve broad issues or challenges.
• Employ Agile development methodologies for software development activities.
• Manage and coordinate technical dependencies with other teams.
• Coordinate incident response for the team, including coverage and technical response to issue.
• Hire, train, guide, and coach team members.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience-

• E / B.Tech / B.S in Computer Science or related degree, or a combination of education and related experience.
• 3+ years of prior software development management experience
• 10+ years of prior software development experience
• 10+ years of prior software development experience