Manager, Software Engineering

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Job Description

Seeking a strategic technical leader with expertise in process innovation, product development, AI integration, and platform engineering.

This position encompasses more than just engineering; it demands systems thinking, technical proficiency, and the capacity to lead implementation teams while crafting vision and adoption strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Hands-on management of a team of highly skilled software developers, testers and domain experts-ensuring great execution of Agile/SCRUM processes and repeatable, predictable, and high-quality delivery of software solutions.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, resource planning, and drive the successful growth of the team.
• Participate in and lead the design and development of new software and/or extensive software revisions.
• Work with the product owner to define technical requirements and priorities then develop user stories, designs, and development tasks to be delegated to the team. Be responsible for a successful conclusion to sprints and releases.
• Identify areas to collaborate on across the different domains in order to drive consistency, technology and process sharing, as well as code re-use.
• Represent the team in cross-organizational development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions.
• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand sophisticated problems and resolve them efficiently, Use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues.
• Participate in training and orienting new software engineers as they join the team.

Candidate Requirement: Education & Experience levels:

Bachelors of Engineering/Computer Science or Master degree or equivalent with 10+ years of overall Experience.

Skills Knowledge & Experience:

• 10+ years of overall experience or played a Technical leadership role recently.
• Proven track record in developing and building scalable, cost efficient applications with Java based web applications.
• 3 + years of experience in building customer centric distributed software.
• 2+ years of experience leading a development team in an Agile/SCRUM setting, with proven ability in project/task estimation, delegation, and management.
• 2+ years of experience in people management.
• Very comfortable and experienced with designing object oriented software and services deployed in a client server or (preferably) cloud setting.
• Data modelling, design and database programming using a variety of relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, SQL).
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “resolve needs determining.
• Able to build deeper and meaningful relationship with team members, be a coach and mentor for their career path, could articulate clearly thoughts and able lead team from the front.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to optimally document artifacts and processes then explain them to others.
• Experience in AWS and IoT will be an added advantage.