Software Development Manager

• Have a seasoned background in enterprise SaaS and/or Cloud software development on AWS or Azure.
• Have a vison for product modernization through innovation and cutting-edge technology.
• Measure success by delivering working software and end user satisfaction.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and even use it to drive better ideas, work and success.
• Have a proven track record of delivering software projects on time and on budget.
• Possess experience managing several large project initiatives concurrently, along with good people and communication skills to explain project goals and inspire support for them.
• Show successful line management experience, including managing geographically distributed and/or outsourced with multi-disciplinary teams.

• Leadership of large-scale, complex software development and modernization projects of a strategic nature, or the more difficult portions of such projects involving multiple platforms within the enterprise.
• Provide daily direction and oversight for 2-3 scrum teams consisting of up to 30 staff.
• Work collaboratively with the product management teams to define the client facing requirements and technical requirements to develop, execute and maintain product roadmap for the GTM project.
• Participate in client facing focus groups, usability studies and firm visits to help craft the product vision.
• Set the technical direction for the team, drive the evolution of the systems architecture, and make appropriate technology choices.
• Management of the comprehensive development project lifecycle, including buy vs. build analysis, application development, software selection, outsourcing, and systems implementation.
• Build partnerships with 3rd party vendors.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, project managers, systems engineers, and the senior management team to allocate engineering resources appropriately across the project.
• Evaluate customer/prospect needs with longer-term product roadmap needs, weighing, balancing, communicating the tradeoffs as necessary.
• Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our product development organization.
• Have an advanced understanding of software development methodologies and the demonstrated ability to design and develop complex software systems.
• Contribute to all aspects of an Agile software development process including: design, programming, testing, documentation, quality assurance and implementation.
• Lead code reviews to enforce code standards and provide constructive feedback to developers.
• Mentor the technical resources on the team to reinforce best practice and develop the team members.
• Looks forward to leveraging innovation time to work on pet projects and special areas of interest.
• Participates in recruitment efforts for responsible technology team.
• Optimizes project deliverables to ensure that technology design fits with existing product architecture and technology strategy.
• Creates an environment and a culture that encourages immediate response to problems and sets expectations and timeframe for resolution with customers or groups managing customers, and manages escalated issues
• 15% Coding + 85% People Management

• 5+ years of experience leading multiple Agile development teams responsible for developing enterprise class applications.
• 10+ years of experience in core software development for large enterprise class applications.

3+ years of experience in developing cloud native applications:

Full stack development

• C# / .Net Core
• TypeScript
• Angular
• API s - REST / GraphQL
• Microservices
• MVC

• Database - SQL / NoSQL
• Cloud Native application development
• Containers - Docker, ECS/EKS, and Kubernetes
• Message Queueing Services - Amazon SQS / MQ

• A good understanding of design patterns and N-Tier architecture.
• Experience designing applications iteratively with continuous collaboration between business and technology.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Have a bachelors degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering or related technical field.

• Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) software development practices.
• Understanding of algorithms and data structure and how to efficiently implement them into a solution.
• Working knowledge of BI tools such as PowerBI, QuickSight or Tableau.
• Be an energetic, self-starter, who is comfortable in a team-oriented environment including the ability to clearly articulate daily individual accomplishments and blocking issues.
• Demonstrated history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated history of good decision-making, conflict resolution, and follow through.
• Strong written oral communication skills
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to them to the teams engineering best practices.