Manager Software Engineering

BASIC FUNCTIONS: This position provides leadership, management, direction, and vision to software engineers and/or development employees including offshore contractors/consultants and interns needed to support, run, and change activities in the software development life cycle. The position works closely with development peers, product and project leaders/managers, and other in-house software developers as well as directs the successful completion and delivery of respective software components and any other related deliverables. The position is additionally expected to report progress to senior management. Additional responsibilities may include oversight of the department budget, identifying and supporting talent, and defining resource requirements and allocations

QUALIFICATIONS:
• 10+ years of Software Development experience
• 2+ years of management experience
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Expertise and proven experience in various staffing and resource models.
• Strong proficiency in database technology, design and manipulation, optimization, and best practices.
• Knowledge in normalized/dimensional data modeling principles and their application to complex business needs.
• Expertise in techniques for design and code reviews of offshore technical proposals.
• Proven knowledge and experience in project planning and management tools to manage project progress, budget, and scope.
• Experience in code reviews and development approaches.
• Expertise in industry best practices in offshore partnership development.
• Proven ability to lead test-driven development and maintenance.
• Industrywide or broad companywide technical knowledge.
• Specialized coding skills.
• Knowledge of large complex systems.
• Proven ability to adapt to new roles and responsibilities.
• Software development process expert in applicable methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).
• Expertise in data modeling, design and manipulation, optimization, best practices, tuning, and leading industry trend knowledge.
• Expertise in industry technology development trends for data engineering, modeling and reporting.
• Proven expertise and experience applying industry best practices in all aspects of development.
• Expert knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems.
• Strong budgeting and finance skills.
• Proven expertise in the use and development of applicable desktop tool sets.
• Proven expert in partnering and leading internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.
• Strong experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation.

• Strong proficiency with data manipulation language including optimization techniques.

• Ability to design and work with complex data models.

• Own the development and delivery of legacy and modern data pipeline that delivers simulation learning data to the analytics platform
• Incorporate multiple data sources from multiple data storage technologies (SQL, NOSQL)
• Work closely with our business partners to enable insights and improve learning outcomes
• Leverage Health Markets platform components to deliver visualizations and data to internal stakeholders and customers
• Drive the development backlog, working closely with our delivery managers to define work, measure progress and deliver high quality software solutions in an agile environment
• Assess modern technologies that enable improvements in data quality, metric management, engineering practices, and corporate data governance. 
• Extensive experience in data analysis
• Extensive SQL experience
• Strong data modeling exp
  • Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of advanced complexity.
  • Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through the direct management of others.
  • Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity.
  • Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.
  • Advanced communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and pr