Development Manager

Description

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 client development standards for those products and maintain familiarity with it's 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, 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.