Software Development Manager

• Technical Leadership: Shape the technical vision while promoting outstanding architectural decisions.
• Mentorship: Foster growth within your teams, guiding engineers to reach and exceed their potential.
• Recruitment: Collaborate with our talent team to onboard diverse, top-tier engineering talent.
• Transformation: Oversee a robust engineering transformation program tailored for designated business areas.
• Innovation: Identify bottlenecks, brainstorm automation opportunities, and co-design solutions to enhance engineering efficiency across the platform.
• Collaboration: Work with multiple departments, from IT Services to QA, ensuring seamless integration and the realization of a unified engineering vision.
• Governance: Establish and enforce IT policies related to software engineering, ensuring compliance and high standards.

• Oversee and nurture the Engineering transformation staff, from reporting analysts and automation engineers to DevOps experts. Responsibilities encompass the full employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and day-to-day management.

Qualifications:

• bachelors degree in computer science engineering or related field.
• 10-15+ years as a software engineering team leader in building and deploying enterprise systems

Expertise in one more of the following areas

• Digital Engineering (Java/.Net/Python or other high level language based Web or Windows Applications)
• Data Engineering (RDBMS and NoSql Databases, ETL and Data Warehousing tools and techniques)
• Cloud Engineering cloud-based systems, CI/CD, diverse programming languages, and cloud platforms.
• Strong customer-facing project development background.
• Proven experience in recruiting and scaling high-performance teams.
• Data-driven decision-making capabilities.
• Demonstrable ability to self-manage; be proactive; take ownership; build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to implementation.
• Planning, Estimating, Work distribution in the team, tracking and reporting the status of development team.
• Exposure of Engineering Transformation and a suite of modern QA tools and techniques.
• Good Exposure in development with CI / CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerization, orchestration, and Kubernetes engine would be an added advantage.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degrees (BE, MBA).
• Experience in the Fintech/Mortgage sector.
• Start-up leadership background.