Manager, Product Software Engineering (wk)

Job Description

About the Role:
As a Manager in Software Engineering, you will lead a team of entry-level software engineers in the design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging of software programs for enhancing existing and creating new commercial products. Your leadership will focus on ensuring the team produces high-quality code, maintains efficient development practices, and adapts quickly to emerging technologies. This role is essential for driving the growth and improving the usability of our products.
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Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Make informed decisions and solve problems related to project development and team management.
• Communicate in a matrixed organization with supervisors, peers, and subordinates to ensure clear alignment and coordination within the team.
• Establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships within the team and with other stakeholders.
• Develop and build a cohesive and motivated software engineering team.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and best practices in software development.
• Organize, plan, and prioritize the team's work to ensure timely project delivery.
• Provide guidance and direction to subordinates to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Coordinate the work and activities of the team to ensure seamless collaboration.
• Gather relevant information from various sources to support decision-making and project planning.
• Coach and develop team members to enhance their skills and foster their professional growth.
• Monitor ongoing processes, materials, or surroundings, providing feedback for improvement.
• Monitor development processes, materials, and project surroundings to ensure efficiency and adherence to standards.
• Estimate project resources and allocate them effectively to meet project demands.

Skills:
• DevOps: An ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams in order to improve and speed up software development processes. This includes automation, continuous delivery, agility, and rapid response to feedback.
• Product Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products. It involves understanding user needs, defining functional specifications, designing system architecture, coding, debugging, and ensuring product quality. It also requires knowledge of various programming languages, tools and methodologies, and ability to work within diverse teams and manage projects.
• Cloud Computing: The ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services on the internet rather than on a personal computer or local server. This skill involves understanding various cloud services (like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), managing resources online, and setting up cloud-based platforms for business environment.
• Implementation and Delivery: This is a skill that pertains to the ability to translate plans and designs into action. It involves executing strategies effectively, overseeing the delivery of projects or services, and ensuring they are completed in a timely and efficient manner. It also necessitates the coordination of various tasks and management of resources to achieve the set objectives.
• Problem Solving: The ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.
• People management: The ability to lead, motivate, engage and communicate effectively with a team. This includes skills in delegation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and understanding team dynamics. It also involves building a strong team culture and managing individual performance.
• Agile: The ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. In the context of project management, it denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes.
• APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. This skill includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Additionally, having this ability means understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.
• Analysis: The ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.
• Automation: The ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. This skill includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.
• Frameworks: The ability to understand, utilise, and create structured environments for software development. This skill also involves being able to leverage existing frameworks to streamline processes, ensuring better efficiency and code manageability in software development projects.

Competencies:
• Judgement & Decision Making
• Accountability
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Inspiration & Alignment
• Courage to Take Smart Risks