Software Engineering Manager - Enterprise Tools Remote

MD, DC, VA

Manages and oversees the teams responsible for design and development of software applications, and their operations and maintenance Directs the work of engineers to ensure the best practices around software development. Provides oversight of enterprise software solutions to ensure successful implementation of released applications.

• Empowers a team of software engineers, business analysts, and scrum masters who may be matrixed into development teams to develop scalable software solutions that deliver business value. Provides best practices for analysis, design, software development and quality engineering activities toward the implementation of complete, end-to-end solutions. Work closely with third parties and stakeholders to manage risks and dependencies in order to deliver features across multiple projects and teams efficiently.
  
  Remove impediments associated with hand-off to external dependencies during execution. Coordinates the review of requirements with vendors, stakeholders and architects. Liaison to address any vendor specific blockers during execution. Define, develop and articulate different delivery and resource management methodologies of projects based on the stakeholder needs.
• Develop staff through coaching, timely performance feedback, and assessments, and conflict management.. Establish performance and development plans. Ensure a constantly rising bar of technical excellence and professional growth. Manage, mentor, and coach to ensure continued growth and development to aid in achieving career goals.. Ensure team members understand individual commitments as well as team and company goals, helping the teams achieve Sprint completion and release dates.
  
  Ensures that the team(s) has the right skills and capability to deliver; addresses gaps through reskilling and/or hiring. Ensure retention of top talent and identify methods for keeping high performers engaged and growing.
• Recommend and develop solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and organizational impacts. Works with cross functional teams to meet business objectives. Research and identify opportunities to expand the teams capacity with lower cost development resources. Develop the business model for remote teams and recommend the vendor based on a suitable criteria. Ensure the local team understands the outsourcing strategy and their role with the remote teams to retain talent.
  
  Manage expenses to ensure effective use of capital and cash flow. Provide budget estimates and spending forecasts. Analyze past spend and account for discrepancies.
• Facilitates all aspects of software development from planning, testing, and quality assurance to implementation. Ensure adherence to IT best practices and the organizations SDLC. Make appropriate team assignments and encourage the team to embrace processes that drive sustainable improvements. In conjunction with Product Management, help the team estimate features for release planning with a mindset of continuously improving estimation accuracy. Tack and report on teams progress towards completion of assigned deliverables.
• Serve as a channel of prioritization, escalation,and marshal the appropriate resources to resolve urgent or high severity issues quickly and efficiently while minimizing the impact to customers.

This position manages people.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

• Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach.

• 5 years Related professional experience.
• 1 year Supervisory experience or demonstrated progressive leadership experience.

• Ability to prioritize projects and allocate resources based on organizational goals.
• Ability to establish relationships and credibility with engineers.
• Ability to cultivate a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Understanding of distributed computing principles.
• Collaborating on a cross-functional team to execute against our product road map.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Select, monitor, coach, develop, and grow employees.
• Support the operations and business continuity.
• Knowledge and experience with various delivery methodologies.
• Experience in software…