Manager, Software Developement

SAS; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SAS is seeking a Software Manager for our Pune R&D Center to lead development of Customer Intelligence products. You will optimize team allocation, provide technical leadership, involve stakeholders, and ensure adherence to standards and best practices while delivering outcomes.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years in software development with 2+ years in leadership, experience architecting complex systems, and strong Agile expertise.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software development
• 2+ years of management/leading experience in software teams
• Architecting technically sophisticated systems
• Experience with Agile development and best practices
• Strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Understanding of testing (manual & automation)
• Understanding of full tech stack
• Knowledge of enterprise design patterns
• Knowledge of data modelling best practices
• Ability to motivate and lead teams

Responsibilities

• Organizes, develops, prioritizes, and assigns resources to deliver high quality, testable software within timelines
• Leads project designs and enforces technical standards across environments
• Collaborates with managers, developers, UI/UX, product managers to satisfy requirements
• Manages scoping, scheduling, tracks progress, and escalates concerns
• Ensures functional, unit, and performance testing coverage
• Maintains code lifecycle accountability for internal and external users
• Ensures design/technical docs meet internal/external needs
• Collaborates with Product, Marketing, Sales, Customers to influence direction
• Provides technical leadership through mentoring and team management
• Oversees department teamwork, performance management, and growth

Skills

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Communication

Testing practices

Data modelling

Enterprise design patterns

Full stack understanding

Multi-tasking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

About the role:

The role is based in the Pune R&D Center, at SAS R&D Pune facility. We are looking for a Software Manager to development product within the Customer Intelligence line of business. You will be leading the development activities, optimizing allocation for team members, lead the team technically, involve all the stakeholders appropriately, and maintain project standards and best practices and deliver outcomes as planned.

Essential Experience:

• At least 12 years of working experience in software development
• At least 2 years of management/leading experience of software development teams
• Experience of architecting technically sophisticated systems.
• Strong experience in Agile software development cycle
• Experience in enforcing best technical practices in software development
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Understanding of manual and automation testing processes and architecture
• Understanding of full stack of technology
• Excellent knowledge of enterprise design patterns
• Good understanding of data modelling best practices
• Experience in leading/managing teams with energy and optimism
• Ability to motivate team members to function collaboratively
• Good in multi-tasking

Experience of these items would be useful:

• Application Fraud domain preferred
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Management in development on any public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, etc.
• Managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI, CD) model

Primary Responsibilities

• Organizes, develops, prioritizes, and assigns resources to deliver high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines, while adhering to R&D best practices and processes.
• Leads development project designs and enforces technical standards to ensure solutions execute correctly across various supported environments (i.e. browsers, devices, operating systems).
• Proactively leads and solicits the involvement of other project stakeholders (e.g. managers, developers, user interface and visual designers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies functional requirements and is consistent with established R&D standards.
• Manages and leads project scoping and scheduling; tracks progress of individual tasks and alerts executive management and stakeholders of concerns meeting schedules, while following established R&D standards.
• Manages product quality standards by ensuring functional, unit and performance testing is comprehensive and thorough; works closely with development and testing teams to verify test plans. Organizes, prioritizes, and assigns resources to implement and resolve code changes related to enhancements, redesigns and/or bug fixes.
• Maintains accountability for the entire life cycle of the code including support for both internal and external consumers.
• Ensures the veracity of design and technical documentation to satisfy both internal and external consumers.
• Contributes to product or project direction through collaboration with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customers, and others within SAS.
• Provides technical leadership as appropriate for projects and to the team through mentoring, training, and managing the activities of the team.
• Manages all aspects of the department including teamwork, performance management, feedback, professional growth through collaboration with SAS human resources, SAS education and executive leadership.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Background and Experience

SAS is seeking a Software Manager with overall experience of 12+ years, with minimum 2 years management/leading experience. The candidate should have development and management experience in Saas enterprise applications. The candidate should have excellent organizing and prioritizing skills, and sharp technical skills to choose the right direction technically. Candidate should have proven track record of delivery management and people management. Candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication skills and possess the confidence to pull the work in the right direction, keeping all stake holders involved and engaged.

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