Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a functional area and oversees software development and the associated process, tools, etc. that are required to do produce the product(s).
• Oversee the team's development process and ensure solutions that are high quality, secure, and maintainable.
• Ensure commitments within sprints and releases and best practices are met (involving Scrum and Agile); provide oversight and leadership guidance to empower self-managed team such as Scrum team(s).
• Assist with ensuring product security such as coding best practices, internal systems / procedure security and data privacy.
• Foster an environment that promotes team member engagement, contributions, and innovation.
• Involves overseeing ongoing collaboration with Product Management to build release plans and sprint plans based on the capacity of the development team(s).
• Communicate and enforce adherence to the development process and provide input into enhancements to process.
• Recruit, develop and retain individuals with the skills, knowledge, and experience necessary to enable the department and organization to meet commitments and goals.
• Develop and manage talent ensuring talent development goals are met to achieve department goals.
• Ensure overall team achieves performance and skill development goals including providing continuous feedback and on-going development to direct reports to realize department goals.
• Maintain a wide breadth of products and technical knowledge of Division products as well as Tyler development standards for those products and maintain familiarity with Tyler Products.
• Participate in planning activities for the development organization such as goals, strategy, budget and/or related activities.
• Responsible for the planning and execution of Internal Readiness Assessments to ensure that the software delivered is deployable, configurable, documented, and adheres to acceptance criteria prior to deployment to a client environment for solution validation
• Responsible for management, resource coordination, executive status reporting both internally and externally, and adherence to established timelines throughout the development process for assigned initiatives
• Perform project leadership on key initiatives across the development team or across functional teams.
• Lead or oversee process improvement initiatives.
• Develops policies and processes to make the department more efficient.
• Participate or leads in gathering and analyzing development organization statistics.
• Responsible for summarized reporting to senior management of the status of the development team
• Acts as the primary contact for all development-related issues and questions pertaining to the initiatives for which that individual is responsible
• Manage the maintenance and purchase of manual and automated tools that lead to higher quality. lower costs and/or other efficiencies for the development organization.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, Business or Management or equivalent work-related technology experience.

• Familiarity with public cloud offerings (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Familiarity with .NET and SQL, PHP Native, JavaScript / NodeJS, AWS, Java / Kotlin, Obj C / Swift, Flutter, Docker, Apache Server, OpenAPI, Harness

• Familiarity with continuous monitoring solutions is preferred.

• At least 5 years' experience developing enterprise level software products with at least 3 years of direct staff level management.

• Strong working knowledge of full software development life cycle including Agile/SCRUM best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with other departments and have excellent client relationship, teamwork, and customer service skills.
• Prior experience managing through difficult situations effectively and identifying and implementing solutions to complex and new issues.
• Demonstrated expertise in organization and planning skills with ability to assist with strategy and lead projects.
• Prior experience coaching and developing talent from an organization-wide perspective; ability to oversee and guide self-managed teams such as Scrum team(s) is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including excellent presentation skills and highly effective business and technical communications across various departments in the organization (Sales, Product, Marketing, Support, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and manage a team of highly skilled employees and produce quality products in a timely manner.