Software Development Manager

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Bedford - 180 Hartwell Road Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 United States

Country

United States

Shift

1st

Werfen

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors.

Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

Our success comes from a specific focus in these rapidly evolving diagnostic areas, our commitment to customers, and our dedication to innovation and quality. We’re passionate about providing healthcare professionals the most valuable and complete solutions to improve hospital efficiency and enhance patient care.

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of the Software Director, responsible for all aspects of software development concerning one or more product lines.

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

• Manages reporting development group functionally.
• Manages hiring process for software development staff.
• Manages an external partner software contracting firm.
• Team training, mentoring and career development as appropriated. Monthly one on one meeting with direct reports and technical leads.
• Overall resource and development role allocation across projects based on project milestones and resource availability.
• Oversees software development across different Software projects, for all Software deliverables and throughout the entire development cycle.
• Ensures software is perfectly documented, designed and implemented according to standard engineering methods, techniques and best industry practices.
• Exploits synergies (e.g. Code reuse, platform paradigm) and extends best development practices across projects.
• Defines consistent software development methods and procedures across projects and ensures they are properly documented (e.g. SOPs) and implemented.
• Responsible for managing continuous software development improvement efforts (both technical and process related) to continually shorten development cycles, improve quality and update SOPs accordingly in conjunction with the SQA Manager.
• Defines development deliverables and templates (Software development plans, software requirements, software architecture, software designs, unit testing,etc) across projects and ensures related artifacts are properly scheduled, implemented and reviewed.
• Ensures usage of state of the art development tools and consistent use across projects.
• Develops, executes and maintains a continuous integration and unit test program to be the primary driver for builds and regression testing of code when changes are implemented and before they are released to test.
• Leads software risk analysis and ensures that risk mitigations at software level are effectively documented and implemented.
• Status reporting and detailed scheduling supporting different product development projects, delegating to technical leads as needed.
• Fulfills the role of development coordinator for a development project or program of projects.
• Fulfills the role of technical lead as needed.
• Ensures that all software development activities and deliverables comply with the FDA QSR, ISO 9001 and satisfy Werfen processes and procedures

Budget Managed (if applicable):

• N/A

Internal Networking/Key Relationships:

• Interfaces with Project/Program Management
• Software Testing
• Electrical Engineering and the Software Quality Manager
• TBD based on company needs

Skills & Capabilities:

• Leadership
• Developing Direct Reports and Others
• Time Management
• Written and Oral Communications

Must have:

• Technical experience: C++ hands-on experience (Linux would be nice as well)
• Modern SDLC:
  Experience with Agile in a Dev Ops environment
• Quality & Cybersecurity:
  Proven track record for high quality and secure software
• Communication…