Software Development Manager

Scientific Games; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming technology company in Alpharetta seeks a Software Development Manager to oversee major software implementation projects. The position calls for strong technical skills along with project and personnel management capabilities. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, managing quality deliverables, and collaborating with senior management. A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering and significant management experience are required. Join our team to drive innovation in gaming technology.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of management experience.
• 5+ years in senior programming, ideally in complex systems.
• Ability to mentor and develop team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members.
• Collect and document business requirements.
• Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, and conflict resolution.

Skills

Technical guidance

Project Management

Interpersonal communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Source Control tools

Real-time server programming

Job description

Overview

The Software Development Manager works on major implementation projects for the central gaming system software group. The manager is the primary owner of all aspects of software delivery, from ensuring requirements are clear to starting to sell and cash lottery products. This includes planning and monitoring any data conversion. New features, reports, interfaces and the people who develop them are the responsibility of the manager. This is a challenging and rewarding position that is highly respected within Scientific Games. This role requires a good mix of technical skill, verbal and written communication, project and personnel management. The day-to-day job is to manage people, projects, guide software direction, review and/or gather requirements, drive estimation and deliver against those estimates.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members as needed for completion of work items.
• Work with team members on technical and professional skills to enable career growth for team members.
• Provide plans, schedules and status to all levels of management and customers.
• Collect and document business requirements as needed.
• Develop project schedules and monitor project progress in conjunction with senior management.
• Assist all software engineers with hands-on code implementation and code architecture and design as needed on projects.
• Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, conflict resolution and recognition of the staff to maintain highly motivated and engaged employees.
• Demonstrate a high degree of initiative and be accountable for the timely completion and thorough implementation of all tasks assigned to them.
• Ensure developers deliver quality work as scheduled in accordance with technical design and product requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge on new programming methods and technologies.
• Direct customer interaction for many parts of the projects.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Travel - 25%.

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10 years plus of management experience.
• 5 years plus senior programming experience, preferably in a large-scale transaction processing or other complex system, is a plus.
• Ability to supervise production support activity outside of normal office hours.
• Familiar with current software design methodology and architecture.
• Experienced with Industry Standard Source Control/Configuration tools.
• Experience with Real-time server programming, high availability environment programming and User interface implementation a plus.
• Ability to mentor, encourage and manage developers through stressful projects.
• Knowledge of security concepts and industry standards.
• Knowledge regarding many SDLC processes and methodologies.
• Good interpersonal, verbal communication and writing skills.
• Good time management skills and ability to work in a dynamic and customer-centric environment.
• Organizational skills.
• Careful and detail-oriented work style.
• Planning, risk assessment with mitigations.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Build and lead a team.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical issues to audiences of various types.
• Local to Atlanta, GA.

Education/Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.

10 years plus of management experience.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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