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Software Engineering Manager

Maidenhead
3 weeks ago
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I am looking for an Engineering Manager for a market leading client in Maidenhead. They work the hybrid model, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. Looking for candidates with strong experience in leading SW Development teams.
As an engineering leader, you will lead Agile engineering resources & provide guidance from inception through release of major & point product releases, including ongoing maintenance. You will be working closely with your product managers, product owners, engineering leaders, your team and other stakeholders. You will be leading developers, quality engineers and partnering with CloudOps, TechOps, UX Design other cross-functional functional groups to evolve our solutions while continuing to improve your teams’ adoption of SDLC processes, CI/CD integration, code quality & automation test coverage.
Primary Responsibilities

  • Lead an organization of 4-10 development & test engineers globally to efficiently produce high quality deliverables
  • Manage team leads, direct reports or a mix of both
  • Manage several deliverables for a product line on time, on scope and on quality
  • Instrument your processes, produce scorecards of progress regularly and establish a regular cadence of operational reviews with your management including quality metrics, coding efficiencies, improvements, challenges, remediation needs
  • Correlate, report, and drive the adoption of Process/Continuous Improvement initiatives
  • Recruit & provide leadership, coaching & career planning for engineering talent
  • Be accountable for design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
  • Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort estimation
  • Make recommendation for technology adoption and framework improvement, analyzing trends, patterns and best practices for software
  • Serve as the evangelist and custodian of technology, architecture, and product development practices
  • Participate in the design & implementation of production cloud grade services supporting high availability
    Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience leading software engineers for product development
  • Experience managing capitalized software processes
  • Preferred: experience with managing teams' operational health by analyzing product teams' work distribution CapEx, Opex, Maintenance, Billable and OH
  • Preferred: experience managing the organizational structure of teams as well as headcount & non-headcount budgets
  • 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and/or DevOps
  • Working experience with scaled software architecture & domain: performance, redundancy, failover, clustering, vertical scaling
  • Preferred: experience using AWS cloud solutions, ideally including migration from other hosting services
  • Working experience with source code management patterns and DevOps automation
  • Proficient in API design, development & production operation
  • Working experience managing production client & server code bases across one or more technology stacks
  • Working experience with production Microsoft SQL Server schema design, queries & administration
  • Preferred: working experience with orchestration, automation, and configuration management processes & related DevOps tools & cloud platforms
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
  • Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
  • Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
  • Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions

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