Manager, Software Development Engineering

Berkley Technology Services

Urbandale (IA)

On-site

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A financial services technology company is seeking a Manager for Software Development Engineering to lead application development and implementation strategies. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of experience, strong leadership skills, and expertise in Agile methodologies and front-end technologies, particularly ReactJS. This role is full-time and offers significant interaction with senior management.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of experience in software development and leadership.
Proven experience in Agile frameworks and software development practices.
Strong front-end development experience, particularly with ReactJS.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and direction for application/system development.
Direct project planning and execution for new application strategies.
Implement critical health metrics to optimize processes.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership experience

DevOps knowledge

ReactJS

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Job description

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 ReactJS is required; NodeJS and/or Next.js is preferred; AngularJS 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.

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