Product Software Engineering Manager

Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions is seeking a Product Software Engineering Manager in a hybrid setup in Spain. You will lead a sizable software engineering team, ensuring delivery of innovative, reliable, and scalable commercial products.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and coordinate with senior management to align with business objectives. The role emphasizes leadership in a matrixed environment, quality standards, and successful product launches across platforms

Formación

• Experience leading software engineering teams in a commercial product setting.
• Proven ability to design, implement and deliver software solutions at scale.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership in a matrixed organization.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage a sizable team of software engineers, fostering a high-performing culture.
• Provide expert guidance on technical challenges and critical project decisions.
• Collaborate with senior management and cross-functional teams for alignment and launches.
• Mentor and grow engineers, ensuring quality standards and practices are followed.
• Plan, schedule, and monitor work to meet project timelines and resource needs.
• Evaluate performance and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Drive product launches and seamless integration with other teams.

Conocimientos

DevOps

Product Software Engineering

Cloud Computing

Implementation and Delivery

Problem Solving

People management

Agile

APIs

Analysis

Automation

Frameworks

Descripción del empleo

Join us at Wolters Kluwer and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. We are currently looking for a Product Software Engineering Manager to join our team.

About the role

As a Product Software Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of software engineers, overseeing the development, implementation, and enhancement of commercial products. You will be accountable for the performance and results of your team, driving successful projects that align with business objectives. Your role is critical in ensuring that the software solutions are innovative, reliable, and scalable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a sizable team of software engineers, fostering a positive and high-performing work culture.


• Provide expert guidance in solving complex technical challenges and making critical project decisions.


• Communicate effectively in a matrixed organization with senior management, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and collaboration.


• Foster the growth and development of software engineering teams, providing mentoring and coaching to team members.


• Oversee the adherence to quality standards and best practices throughout the software development process.


• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.


• Collaborate with other teams and functions to facilitate seamless integration and successful product launches.


• Conduct regular performance evaluations of team members, providing feedback and identifying areas for improvement.


• Plan and schedule work within the team, ensuring efficient resource utilization and meeting project timelines.


• Monitor development processes, framework adoption, and project progress to ensure efficiency and compliance with standards.


• Monitor ongoing processes, materials, or surroundings, providing feedback for improvement.


• Estimate project resources and allocate them effectively to meet project demands.

Skills

• DevOps: An ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams in order to improve and speed up software development processes. This includes automation, continuous delivery, agility, and rapid response to feedback.


• Product Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products. It involves understanding user needs, defining functional specifications, designing system architecture, coding, debugging, and ensuring product quality. It also requires knowledge of various programming languages, tools and methodologies, and ability to work within diverse teams and manage projects.


• Cloud Computing: The ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services on the internet rather than on a personal computer or local server. This skill involves understanding various cloud services (like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), managing resources online, and setting up cloud-based platforms for business environment.


• Implementation and Delivery: This is a skill that pertains to the ability to translate plans and designs into action. It involves executing strategies effectively, overseeing the delivery of projects or services, and ensuring they are completed in a timely and efficient manner. It also necessitates the coordination of various tasks and management of resources to achieve the set objectives.


• Problem Solving: The ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.


• People management: The ability to lead, motivate, engage and communicate effectively with a team. This includes skills in delegation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and understanding team dynamics. It also involves building a strong team culture and managing individual performance.


• Agile: The ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. In the context of project management, it denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes.


• APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. This skill includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Additionally, having this ability means understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.


• Analysis: The ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.


• Automation: The ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. This skill includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.


• Frameworks: The ability to understand, utilise, and create structured environments for software development. This skill also involves being able to leverage existing frameworks to streamline processes, ensuring better efficiency and code manageability in software development projects.

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