Manager, Software Development - foresters

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Role Title

Purpose of role

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the software development team providing coaching, leadership, guidance and performance management as require
• Be responsible for building a high-performing engineering organization, establishing modern software engineering standards, improving delivery practices, and developing people
• Provide strategic thought leadership, build technology roadmaps, address and remove obstacles for the team, prioritize resource allocation to projects and sustains production support Establish
• Establish and maintain open and appropriate communication with application staff and management
• Document development deliverables, schedules and other necessary information providing progress reports as required
• Liaise with all relevant organizational departments in order to plan and execute projects providing assurance project scopes are accurately and adequately defined in relation to software development
• Perform maintenance of programming for existing versions of the organization's software offerings
• Ensure the functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and system architecture for each system
• Actively participate in team meetings and offer recommendations /ideas on design projects
• Actively participate in discussion on architecture and design decisions with architects and translate them into implementation details
• Design, code, and test major features in collaboration with Team Members, Design Engineers, Documentation Specialists, Application architects, and other members of the development and technical team to deliver complex changes
• Recruit qualified staff and conduct performance evaluations
• Bring leading edge software development methodologies, tools and technologies to software development practice
• Lead developers in addressing and resolving functional and non-functional requirements
• Other duties as assigned

Key Qualifications

• Education (minimum required): Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline
• Experience (minimum required): 5+ years of experience managing application teams
• 10+ years' experience in an object-oriented development and enterprise environment (Java preferred) along with a focus on application security
• Experience in web application development and good security practices
• Experience with API design and development
• Knowledge and experience with 1) cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure; 2) relational/non-relational databases; and big data 3) DevOps and CI/CD