Associate Manager, Software Engineering

About the job:

The Digital Experience Platform team is looking for an Associate Manager, Software Engineering. In this role, you will manage a team of SPAship engineers developing software features and integrations and DevOps engineers managing global infrastructure and configurations. This role will likely leverage your prior software development experience, but does not require prior experience in a formal management role. As such it would suit an aspiring project manager, team lead, technical lead, or someone with similar junior leadership experience who now wants to grow into a people management role.

What will you do?

• Regular interaction with the team and all aspects of people management.
• Work with the individual technical leads, management, and product owner to plan and track the team's work, report on progress in planning and review meetings, and help the team to reach technical consensus.
• Work with Product Owner and Project Manager on sprint planning, product deliverables and future strategy.
• Coordinate with program/project management and oversee resource allocation.
• Develop a relationship with the DevOps team to deploy, configure and support product infrastructure needs.
• Develop a relationship with the QE organization to collaborate on test plans, strategy and resource requirements.
• Represent the team at functional meetings, customer, partner, and developer discussions
• Develop value metrics and reports to highlight the success of the workstream, product and team.
• Develop relationships outside the Digital Experience Organization to create opportunities, increase product scope
• Support the coaching and personal development of engineers on the teams.
• Act as mentor/coach to inspire team members.

What will you bring?

• Leadership experience through direct people management, team lead activities, or project management
• The flexibility to work with a widely distributed and remote team
• The ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize, and work under pressure and tight deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A background in computer software development
• Strong technical understanding of the domain (Full stack)
• Proven track record of handling multiple tasks, prioritizing, and working under pressure
• Troubleshooting skills with a passion for problem-solving, investigation, and learning new technologies
• Familiarity with open source software and open source as a business model
• Working knowledge of how a Linux distribution is built
• Familiarity with Red Hat's product portfolio and subscription business model
• A passion for open source software
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field