Director, R&D Software Development (Hybrid, Loveland, CO)

We understand that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today, and that’s why we’re inspired to make A Better World for Pets. Antech is comprised of a diverse team of individuals who are committed to each other’s growth and development. Our culture is centered on our guiding philosophy, The Five Principles: Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom. Today Antech is driving the future of pet health as part of Mars Science & Diagnostics, a family-owned company focused on veterinary care.

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This is hybrid position based in Loveland, Colorado. The Target Pay Range for this position is $143,000 - $178,000 Annually. At Mars, pay decisions are determined using factors such as relevant job-related skills, experience, education, training and budget.

PURPOSE OF JOB: 

The Sr. Manager of R&D Software Development will lead a growing distributed team of software engineers US and abroad. This role will manage the development of R&D customer-facing software for next-gen and existing solutions with a growing team of development teams located in the US, Mexico, India, and Germany. The Senior Manager of Software Development will collaborate with Testing, Product Management, and R&D In-House Diagnostics to implement product requirements.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Passionate about both building and supporting an enterprise platform to support products and maintaining legacy customer-facing applications

• Change management leader; experience leading teams, particularly long-tenured associates, through organizational growth and scale.

• Continuous improvement mentality: someone who relishes the challenge to continually improve the service delivery and customer experience.

• Leading the team through management and mentorship

• Interfacing with product owners daily to address operational matters and to understand their business requirements

• Lead the development for a Customer-Facing platform (C#, Oracle and SQL Server, Azure Cloud, React, and React Native) technical roadmap, resource allocation, and execution timelines.

• Developing standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent.

• Reviewing teams budgets

• Recommending technological developments and improvements in efficiency

• Developing the team to ensure quality end products.

• Present technology roadmap, progress and compelling presentations to executives and investors

• Actively lead the lift of critical assets to the cloud

• Agile champion.

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop product requirements and technology roadmaps.

• Must have a deep understanding of data architecture, data acquisition, data integration, and data mining, with the ability to challenge technical subject matter experts to think creatively.

• May be asked to participate in enterprise initiatives, special projects and other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline a plus.

• 5+ years of experience successfully designing, engineering, and leading end-to-end product development

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer in organizations with strong software engineering processes, ideally building solutions for the Cloud

• 3+ years of experience leading highly motivated engineering teams in mature organizations

• Track record of successful product development and deployment using modern software engineering, DevOps, Agile, SCRUM and sprint practices, Azure or AWS, and Docker or Kubernetes

• Track record of being able to attract and retain successful software engineering team members

• Experience in using and leading teams that utilize one or more of C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, C/C++, or .NET

• Experience building and integrating with large-scale infrastructure and/o