Software Development Manager - Product Data

Autodesk; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Software Development Manager to lead a talented team in a hybrid role based in Toronto or Montreal. This position offers the chance to shape high-performing teams and drive engineering excellence across cloud services. You will play a pivotal role in fostering a culture of collaboration and customer-centricity, ensuring that projects align with organizational goals. If you have a passion for mentoring and guiding developers while managing complex software projects, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company and make a significant impact in the tech landscape!

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software design and development, especially in cloud applications.
• 3+ years leading development teams and managing diverse engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and nurture top talent for a high-performing team.
• Guide team to support customers and solve incidents promptly.
• Manage performance to ensure successful project completion.

Skills

Team Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Java

AWS

REST APIs

Cloud Computing

Conflict Resolution

Customer-Centric Approach

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud Database Technologies

Scrum

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

24WD83768

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Software Development Manager to join the Autodesk Platform Services and Emerging Technologies organization. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale and cloud data platform components powering desktop, mobile, and web products. This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate and expand our data, and our end-users to work with their data across all Autodesk products. You will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development Manager based in Canada and the role is a hybrid based in Montreal or Toronto. You will work closely with product managers and plan all engineering activities, including technical investigations, feature development, bug fixes and customer escalations. You will be central to our success: a collaborator who bridges business and engineering requirements by being responsible for team performance and staff development. If you have led agile team(s) in a scaled Agile environment, know how to nurture talent, develop best practices, encourage an open communications environment, and provide guidance and mentoring to build high-performing teams to provide high-quality solutions to customers, Apply Today!

Responsibilities

• Recruit and nurture the best talent to develop a top-performing team
• Accountable for results and initiatives for the teams. Plan and manage the successful completion of projects to fulfill goals. Work with the team to break down complex technical requirements into logical execution slices. Help the team to identify, solve and/or escalate dependencies and roadblocks
• Lead team to support customers and solve customer incidents and issues promptly. Help the team to understand the importance of customer-centricity and build customer empathy
• Guide team to build Customer Trust in the service solutions, including best-in-class resiliency, performance, scalability, and reliability. Advocate and build engineering and service excellence in our development
• Educate team members on how their work aligns with organizational goals
• Lead, provide technical guidance, and mentor developers to develop their careers and to achieve individual success. Up-skill developers to meet organizational needs and individual career goals
• Develop Autodesk culture values in the teams. Enhance engineering efficiency by observing the team, identifying opportunities, and influencing the improvement
• Find the right approach when faced with uncertainties and support teams in navigating changes
• Manage team's performance to ensure successful project completion. Inspire, motivate and coach team members to achieve maximum productivity, creativity and efficiency

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 8+ years working experience in software industry involving design and development of cloud/server applications and services
• 3+ years of experience leading development teams managing team members, from Junior to Principal engineers, from Developers to QAs
• Must have fundamentals in technology with Server-side development services in Java, AWS, REST. Experience with web technology stack, cloud computing, and cloud database technologies. Understand services architecture, development, and testing
• Experience with software development lifecycle, principles, practices, and methodologies, and engineering best practices
• Experience working on a scrum team developing cloud services; experience and well-versed in leading in an Agile development environment. Understand Agile and Scaled Agile
• Experience managing complex software projects with multiple dependencies
• Experience hiring and onboarding new talent and setting up teams for success. Conflict resolution skills
• Experience stating complex subjects simply for a variety of audiences
• Experience dealing with changes while overseeing projects, from business to technical requirements in all phases in the development cycle
• Willingness to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones which may require limited work outside normal working hours