Development Manager IT || 12 To 18 Yrs Exp

Development Manager - IT

12 - 18 years with minimum 5 to 7 years of technical/operational experience managing software development in high-performance, low latency application architectures and software products.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or equivalent
• Minimum of 4 years as a software engineer or architect working with microservice applications
• Product Development background with experience in DevOps will be a plus
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with SCRUM teams and Agile Development
• Experience managing 4+ SCRUM teams and 30+ developers
• Experience with enterprise software development
• Expert working knowledge/experience with event driven applications based on domain driven designs utilizing micro-services through ubiquitous business domain language
• Experience in working with multinational teams within a matrix organization
• Strong coach on implementation of SAFe or Agile scrum and working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
• Working knowledge of developing/deployment of container based applications within cloud systems (Azure, AWS, etc.) utilizing Kubernetes clusters
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with creative mindset and strong customer focus
• Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology within the SDLC
• Willingness to travel internationally (10-30%)
• Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Good interpersonal skills (work well within a team) and ability to influence at various levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced operational environment with competing priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical/leadership abilities and able to drive team members to rapid technical recommendations.
• Warehouse domain knowledge is a plus
• Working experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) is a plus
• Working experience with TDD or BDD software methodologies is a plus

Role & Responsibilities:

Working as the Software Development Manager of the product and software development groups within DCS India, this role will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Experience taking a lead role in continuous improvements of complex software systems/product/technology that have been successfully delivered to customers to ensure  a productized software delivery of solutions
• Knowledge of best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Comfortable mentoring and coaching direct reports as well as managing teams in India
• Experience with distributed computing, cloud native applications, and enterprise-wide systems
• Experience influencing best practices within your team  and intentional alignment with global development organization, ensuring that product development is consistent and consumable by the global organization and customers
• Drive increasing development performance with KPI based metrics around quality, velocity, etc. and communicate with management/stakeholders on those metrics and milestones
• Deliver software with increasing use of automation for testing and delivery
• Collaborate with Product Manager, Technical Product Owners, and Software Architects in refinement and defining feature functionality and acceptance criteria to meet product roadmap
• Works with Solution/Software Architects to help define the solution and produce cost estimations
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to meet expected deliverables