Manager, Software Engineer

WGU; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 152,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

WGU is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership, vision, and mentoring for a software engineering team. This role will manage a team of developers who design, develop, and support applications to meet business requirements, delivering product roadmaps and providing day-to-day leadership in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes budgeting, resource planning, and driving the development lifecycle from requirements to deployment.

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineer or equivalent technical leader with credibility to evaluate architecture and engineering practices.
• Strong people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.
• Demonstrates sound judgment by making data-informed decisions, balancing risk, and escalating issues with clear mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Meets business needs by managing developers to deliver quality solutions on-time, within budget and scope.
• Gathers business processes and project requirements with internal customers.
• Drives development life cycle from requirements analysis through design, code, tests, deployment and support.
• Develops project plans, resource planning, scheduling, and manages development timelines.
• Builds and manages multi-disciplined software teams and oversees development processes using industry best practices.
• Responsible for design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring the software development team.
• Supports a change management process to manage software releases, patches, and production changes.
• Manages multiple tasks in high-pressure environments and resolves issues early to avoid costs.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

People management

Agile/Scrum

Technical judgment

Cross-functional communication

Job description

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Management Technical 714

Pay Range: $151,800.00 - $250,500.00

Job Description

Job Profile Summary:

The Software Engineering Manager will provide technical leadership, vision, direction, and mentoring for the software engineering team. This individual will manage a team of personnel who design, develop, and support applications to meet business requirements. The Software Engineering Manager will deliver product and feature roadmaps and provide overall leadership and day to day management for a team of software development professionals. Additionally, they will provide resource planning and project scheduling using Agile/Scrum software development methodologies.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Meets business needs by managing the activities of developers consistently delivering quality solutions on-time, within budget, and scope.
• Work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements.
• Actively drives the development life cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support.
• Developing project plans, resource planning, scheduling, and managing development timelines.
• Building and managing multi-disciplined software teams and overseeing the development processes using industry best practices.
• Responsible for design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring the software development team.
• Support a change management process to manage software releases, application patching and changes to production configurations.
• Manage multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; excelling at pinpointing and resolving problems in early project stages to avoid cost/time expenses.
• Oversight and management of department expenses and budget planning.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

Technical Credibility:

Has previously operated as a senior-level software engineer or equivalent technical leader and can credibly evaluate architecture, engineering practices, and technical tradeoffs. Strong people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.

Sound Judgement/Escalation:

Demonstrates sound judgment by making data-informed decisions, balancing risk appropriately, and escalating issues to the right stakeholders at the right time with clear mitigation strategies.

Trust & Cross Functional Communication

Builds trust through concise, accurate communication, active listening, transparency, and consistent follow-through on commitments

Organizational Impact

Manages a team that focuses on executing the operational plans for the job area with measurable contribution to the achievement of results of the department, function, or office. Assigns and distributes work. Compiles data to prepare budgets.

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Responsible for making moderate improvements of processes or systems to enhance performance of the job area. Assignments received and problems faced are broad and undefined, and occasionally require use of analytical concepts, investigation, and knowledge from prior experience.

Communication and Influence

Communicates within job area and occasionally with external groups. External facing professionals (i.e. Admissions) communicate more regularly with external groups on routine matters. Ensures compliance with university policies and procedures within job area and may influence others outside of job area to justify and gain cooperation for policies, practices, and procedures.

Leadership and Talent Management

Manages/Supervises a team of professionals. Manages the work of assigned employees and/or supervisors who generally exercise some latit