Manager, Software Development Engineering

Manager, Software Development Engineering

Responsibilities

The Manager, Software Development Engineering will be responsible for providing leadership and direction for all aspects of development, implementation, integration and support decisions impacting an application or system. Direct project planning and execution, develop strategies for creating and integrating new applications, and work with departments to determine technology needs and design solutions.

• Creates, reviews and implements multi-year strategies for individual teams, systems, or projects
• Provides direction to team leads or other direct and indirect personnel within the organization
• Responsible for team performance, process compliance and directs work at an objective / goal level across one or more teams through formal authority
• High focus on employee talent management and performance management
• Closely manages and monitors project and resource costs within respective area
• 50% or less time is focused within directly managed teams and peer technical groups
• Implements and monitors critical health metrics for all aspects of their operational and continuous improvement processing
• Develops new ideas to optimize processes and improve operations; resulting in increased ROI
• Primary interaction point is with company presidents, VPs, or PMs at an operating unit
• Travel for this position is approximately 10-30%

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area; multiple years of proven leadership experience
• Experience enables individual to be portable across numerous roles within BTS at a similar leadership level
• Demonstrated operational experience with a DEV OPS or Operational framework such as Agile, ITSM, ITIL, adoption frameworks, ALM and Software Development practices
• Ability to operate and guide teams through various frameworks and processing; measuring personnel performance
• Capability to meet key accountabilities, or ability to learn/perform them
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to interact with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels
• Software Development Life Cycle experience
• Understanding of Agile SDLC is preferred
• 3+ years of P&C insurance industry knowledge is preferred, but not required
• 5-8+ years of front-end development experience required
• Demonstrated experience with React
  
  JS is required;
  NodeJS and/or Next.js is preferred;
  Angular
  
  JS will be considered
• At least 5 years of supervisory and/or team lead experience
• Proven experience working within agile and/or scaled agile frameworks (SAFe)
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience and/or alternative qualifications will be considered.

Behavioral Core Competencies

• Flexibility
• Customer Service Oriented & Operational Effectiveness
• Personal Ownership
• Quick Decision Making
• Team Builder
• Transformational Leadership

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Information Technology

• Financial Services and Insurance

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