Sr Manager, Software Engineering; Java, AWS, API

Position: Sr Manager, Software Engineering (Java, AWS, API)
About Gartner IT:

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.

About this role:

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering position responsible for design, implementation, and support of Web based applications to help fulfill our Consulting & Insights Technology strategy. This role is also responsible for effective collaboration, communication across business and technology teams along with helping the dev team to create modular and performance centric architectures to create seamless integrations with multiple applications.

What you'll do:

* Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, engineers, designers, and product stakeholders to deliver innovative technology solutions.

* Designing, implementing, unit, integration testing and supporting applications.

* Have end-to-end responsibility for leading projects focused on performance, modular, extensible web applications.

* Demonstrate a deep knowledge of Java frameworks and best practices

* Lead the review and analysis of business requirements to create technical specifications

* Lead and participate in code reviews, peer inspections and technical design/specifications

* Prepare and provide adequate (quality and quantity) documentation for work products.

* Work with cross-functional teams to resolve business process issues and identify business process improvement opportunities

* Responsibility for resolving all issues assigned in a timely manner

* Ownership for development of application architecture and delivery of technical solutions that meet business requirements

* Ensure that all applications conform to system and programming standards and are appropriately documented

* Perform support and maintenance tasks to address production issues reported by business users.

* Manage formal and informal project communication amongst team and with other project participants using methods appropriate to audience and type of communication

* Evaluate developers following project completion identifying strengths and areas for development via a formal, written performance appraisal

What you'll need:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in the field of software development. 10+ years' experience in web-based application/software design and development.

Must have

* High quality and on-time business initiative delivery experience by collaborating with Cross-functional teams.

* Should have direct people management experience

* Strong knowledge of Software development using Java EE/Spring, JavaScript, HTML , CSS, React and PL/SQL experience with a relational database

* Knowledge of integration and web services technologies (HTTP, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON)

* Experience building scalable data models and performing complex relational databases queries using PL/SQL (Oracle, Postgre

SQL), etc

* Experience with AWS Cloud services such as EKS, Lambda, SQS, Open Search etc.

* Experience with Dev Ops using continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools like Jenkins, Argo, monitoring tools

* Experience with Scrum software development methodology

* Experience in all phases of a systems development lifecycle & a proven track record of experience in leading the design and deployment of large-scale solutions

* Excellent knowledge of software development and object-oriented design fundamentals with a strong background in architecting software applications

* Excellent problem-solving skills as well as clear and concise communication by adapting delivery to resonate with different audiences.

* Proactively work towards effectively prioritizing the tasks and dependencies to avoid any roadblocks.

* Inspire and motivate team to achieve shared goals and drive strong business outcomes.

Nice to have

* Experience with Salesforce CRM integration and/or agentic AI integration.

* Hands-on experience in writing Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible scripts

* Working knowledge of containers like Docker, Kubernetes

* Knowledge of Enterprise search platforms such as Apache Solr or Elasticearch

* Graph and No

SQL database knowledge such as Neo4j, MongoDB

* Familiarity with web analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, etc.)

Who you are:

* Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required

* Excellent communication and prioritization skills.

* Able to work independently or within a team proactively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.

* Owns success - Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions.

* Strong desire to improve upon their skills in software development, frameworks, and technologies

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