Manager, Product Software Engineering | Agile

Job Description

Supervise an agile software development team(s) in delivering scalable cloud applications, services, and solutions on time, with high quality while fostering a culture of engagement with an environment conducive to innovation and career development.

·         Own engagement and employee belonging. Create positive culture of a high performing team founded on psychological safety and transparency.

·         Engage in a career development discussion with each direct report resulting in 1-3 meaningful development goals to support growth in current role and/or longer-term career progression.

·         Conducts performance reviews, recommends candidates for promotion, and manages performance improvement plans as necessary.

·         Manages recruiting efforts to fill individual positions and selects candidates with the right skills and demeanor for hire.

Orchestrate the delivery of all milestones, releases, and tech debt reduction by working collaboratively across all disciplines.

·         Ensure CI/CD and SDLC governance: best practices are followed, tech debt is reduced, high quality releases are among the key performance indicators.

·         Embrace Always On development mindset and continuously focus on performance, resiliency, reliability, availability, and security.

·         Understand product roadmap (the why), Customer impact of the “what”. Works in partnership with Product Management to achieve product delivery goals.

·         Participate in creating Engineering roadmap based on product vision and technical stack.

·         Responsible for reviewing cost/benefit analyses of design alternatives and collaborates with technical staff before selecting final design.

·         Continuous identification and implementation of improvements to the development process

·         Help scrum teams in resolving impediments that are outside their sphere of control. Help reduce dependencies and effectively manage them when necessary.

·         Incident response management. Drive short- and long-term solutions with RCAs to guarantee root cause resolution.

Qualifications:

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree or experience

·         5+ years of experience leading Agile teams delivering 24/7 high available and scalable cloud solutions and services.

·         5+ years people management experience with proven track record of creating positive high performing culture and advancing career growth for direct reports.

·         Coaches less-experienced staff members in a mentor-type relationship

·         Superb communications skills! Communicates departmental and project strategies within area of influence. Communicates in a professional manner when interacting with less-experienced staff, peers, senior staff, and internal or external customers.

·         Strong organizational, planning, and execution skills. Ability to build and foster collaborative relationships across disciplines and work hand in hand to ensure product delivery goals.

·         Demonstrates the ability to actively listen to others. Ability to influence, facilitate team discussions with different opinions, and focus the teams on achieving their goals.

·         Prepares and conducts presentations for various user areas and staff levels, including senior management.

·         Works with other work units and acts together toward common goals.<