Manager, Software Development

Software Development Manager
- Hybrid, Cary North Carolina

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As a Software Development Manager in the SAS Foundation Division’s Runtimes department, you will lead a team of engineers onaData Acceleration team, partnering with managers, technical leads, and strategic partners to deliver high-quality software that improves the performance, scalability, and security of SAS analytics.

You will oversee planning and execution for medium-complexity development projects, including SAS Speedy Store, which enables faster, more cost-efficient table operations in Single Store and expands robust data management capabilities for customer data. This role collaborates closely across Advanced Analytics, Visual Analytics, platform teams, andstrategicpartner

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Store to help keep Viya fast, reliable, and competitive for customers.

• Be responsible for day-to-day team operations and priorities.
• Handle management responsibilities for the team including hiring, training, delegating work assignments, reviewing performance, and giving feedback.
• Understand the career objectives of your team members and support them on their journey to achieve them
• Work with product management and customers to understand requirements.
• Work with developers to scope and refine planned work then break down stories into more granular tasks for scheduling.
• Collaborate with other technical managers to ensure quality and consistency among software components and products.
• Manage and prioritize development projects and regularly communicate project status with upper management.
• Ensure R&D standards and guidelines are followed per established criteria, including adoption of the appropriate technology and architecture standards.
• Drive a continuous improvement culture and push for innovations and process improvements that accelerate team productivity.
• Remain apprised of state of the art and emerging technologies and seek out opportunities to leverage them in our products and processes.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or a related discipline
• Requires a minimum of eight years of related programming or testing experience, including one year of project lead, supervisory or management experience.
• Practical experience with more than one programming language (SAS, C/C++, SQL, Java, Go).
• Experience working with databases
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• A strong understanding of how Agile SDLC practices enable a successful team
• Experience leading development and delivery at the enterprise system level.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

• Leading Change
  - Driving organizational and cultural changes needed to achieve strategic objectives; catalyzing new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services; helping others overcome resistance to change.
• Strategic Planning
  - Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values.
• Inspiring Others
  - Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the…