Development Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead an organization of 4-20 development & test engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality deliverables
• Manage team leads, direct reports or a mix of both
• Manage several deliverables for a product line on time, on scope and on quality
• Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
• Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
• Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
• Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
• Communicate with customers to ensure that expectations and support needs are met
• Provide architectural guidance to your teams towards our PDI Cloud & Platform strategy
• Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
• Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
• Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability
• Actively talent manage your team providing career planning & performance improvement activities when needed
 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading software engineers for product development
• Experience managing capitalized software processes
• Preferred: experience with managing teams’ operational health by analyzing product teams’ work distribution CapEx, Opex, Maintenance, Billable and OH Preferred: experience managing the organizational structure of teams as well as headcount & non-headcount budgets
• 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
• Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
• Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
• Proficient in API design, development & production operation
• Working experience with at least one mainstream operating system and IP networking
• Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
• Working experience with production SQL schema design, queries & administration in one or more mainstream relational and/or no-SQL databases Preferred: working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms Preferred: working experience with event-based systems, streaming architecture & related technologies
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
• Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures

Behavioral Competencies

• Ensure accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Optimizes work processes
• Communicate effectively
• Collaborates