Technical Manager, Software Engineering

We are looking for enthusiastic, high energy and collaborative Technology Manager who has demonstrated skills in building software products for high growth software companies. The role will have following primary responsibilities: 

• Leads technical teams and serves as focal point for development issues across a development activity
• Line manager of Development Team Leaders, Developers and other technical roles.
• Work closely with business and product managers

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent education.
• 12 years of experience in Software Engineering discipline, with last 6+ years leading software engineering/development teams and prior experience as architect/lead/developer 5+ years of experience running agile practices in product development
• Should have directly managed team of 25+ people and responsible for their hiring, mentoring and performance reviews 
• Experience with emphasis in Core Java, J2EE, JavaScript, Eclipse IDE, Ant, Maven, Spring Framework
• Experience in Angular 4/5/6/7, Jenkins, CSS3, HTML5 is desirable
• Transact SQL/stored procedure development experience,
• Linux Source Code Management systems such as Git, SVN or CVS Agile tools like JIRA, CI/CD

It would be great if you also had

• Good analytical, verbal and written interpersonal and communication skills due to the number of internal customers they will be required to support

What will you be doing in this role? 

Delivery Responsibilities:

• Reviews requirements, architecture and design along with the team. Identify risks and mitigation.
• Accountable for the successful execution of technology projects including support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases and major products.
• Executes on technology strategies. Optimizes project deliverables to ensure that technology design fits with existing product architecture and technology strategy.
• Participates in problem resolution recommendation for escalated issues.
• Runs daily stand ups, iteration planning meetings, reviews and prioritizes backlogs, provides updates to stakeholders.
• Evaluates and makes decisions on engagement of strategic suppliers.
• Ensures fidelity and feasibility of all projects plans and estimates.
• Allocates and schedules resources in line with overall team, resolves conflicts, and prioritize projects to meet the needs of the business.
• Provides timely status updates for areas of team responsibilities within projects potentially including senior leaders, initiating escalation when necessary.
• Make recommendations for budget spend and assist with justification for purchases.
• Improves the quality of development in the organizations and promotes best development practices.
• Identifies and contributes to ongoing development and adoption of project processes, tools, and techniques so they develop in line with organizational, technical, and commercial requirements.
• Collaborates with other development teams, QA, Solution Analysts based in Bangalore, US and UK

Line Management:

• Leads and manages the day-to-day activities of their team including hiring, mentoring and supporting career development of team (objective setting, performance management, etc.)
• Manages and supervises one or more small teams.
• Serves as departmental focal point for staff issues, HR initiatives and requirements.
• Implements and models a work culture that promotes development and retention of high-quality staff.
• Liaises with other technical development areas for cross assignments and exchange of staff and encourages staff movement in line with business and/or career development needs.
• Develop and cultivate culture of customer and business awareness, collaboration.
• Encourages two-way communication with staff, peers, and business partners.
• Grows organization talent through recruiting, coaching, and mentoring.

Partnering with Business:

• Understand customer perspectives, priorities and pain points.  
• Represent development team when working with business and customers
• Implements a customer-aware culture for their team, ensuring close working relationships
• Creates trust and credibility with stakeholders/user community and works with them to identify issues and risks that may impact them.

About the Team   

The existing team is spread across India with strong technical and analytical skills. We have a great skill set in Pyspark, AWS Glue, Data bricks to name a few of the Tools and technologies.

Hours of Work  

what are they working and what are the team hours (EST, CET, etc.) - this is a [temporary, full-time contract, or permanent]? 

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