Hands-on Engineering Manager-.NET (Onsite) Overland Park, KS

Netsmart; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Netsmart is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to drive technical excellence in our Overland Park, KS office. You will lead software teams, coach engineers, and align delivery with product roadmaps, while balancing budgets and strategic goals.

The role requires 5+ years in software development, 3+ years managing large projects, and 2+ years leading teams within Agile frameworks. You will mentor talent and advocate continuous improvement across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of technical software development experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on coding; .NET preferred, open to Java/JS.
• At least 3 years of large, complex project management experience.
• At least 2 years of leading a technical team.
• At least 2 years of full lifecycle development with Agile methods.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to team of software development professionals.
• Maximize capability and capacity of resources to deliver high quality solutions on time and within scope.
• Identify opportunities to practice and champion continuous improvement through projects and metrics.
• Manage and report on operational metrics and status, including queue churn and resource utilization.
• Make timely and effective decisions balancing current and future roadmap objectives.
• Lead change initiatives and develop strategies to support engineering process changes.
• Ensure resources’ knowledge and skills stay current with the latest in software development.
• Establish and manage to financial budgets.

Skills

Technical leadership

Coaching

Agile practices

Team management

Resource planning

Decision making

Change management

Budget management

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

.NET

Java

JavaScript

Job description

Leads Netsmart’s software engineering teams to deliver high‑quality, scalable solutions by driving technical excellence, continuous improvement, and effective execution across projects, processes, and product roadmaps. This position is onsite in our Overland Park, KS office location. Exciting opportunity be vertical and hands-on plus manage a team of developers. Help them learn and grow!

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to team of software development professionals.
• Maximize the capability and capacity of resources to deliver high quality solutions on time and within scope.
• Identify opportunities to practice and champion continuous improvement through projects, productivity assessments and other metric-driven insights.
• Manage to, and report on operational metrics and status. This is including but not limited to queue churn, trending, resource utilization, risk assessment and mitigation, project initiatives, and department-related data elements.
• Make timely and effective decisions to ensure the team continues to move forward while balancing current and future roadmap objectives.
• Lead change initiatives and develop strategies to support change in engineering processes and strategy.
• Accountable for resources’ ability to improve knowledge and skills required for software development teams to advance and leverage the latest in programming languages, industry standards and software development methodologies.
• Responsible for establishing and managing to financial budgets.

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• At least 5 years of technical experience in software development
• At least 5 years of experience hands on coding, .NET is preferred, open to Java, JS, etc.
• At least 3 years of large, complex project management experience
• At least 2 years of leading a team of technical staff
• At least 2 years of experience with full lifecycle development and using Agile methods

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing, building and operating – secure, scalable and highly available web and mobile applications, large-scale distributed systems using service-oriented architecture and message queue architecture – in the cloud
• Understanding of cloud-based SaaS architectures – involves designing elastic solutions, distributed state, availability, scalability, etc.
• Adept in Object Oriented Design
• Excellent analytical, design and troubleshooting skills

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