Software Engineering Manager

CPL

LIMERICK

Position Responsibilities. As Sr. Manager Software Engineering, you will be responsible for leading Agile software teams, ensuring delivered product quality, removing obstacles to efficient product development and guide professional growth for team members. You’ll deliver high-quality visual, functional, and operational experience to our customers and users while recruiting and motivating your team. Specific responsibilities will include: Directly managing and mentoring software development/test engineers. Working alongside your team providing technical direction. Advocating for agile and test-driven development methodologies while delivering on all committed projects. Working with Product Management, Design, Development, and Operations to negotiate and offer alternatives on risky/complex/expensive requirements and negotiate priorities and timelines. Providing timely and transparent communication that highlights both successes and challenges. Collaborating with other members of the Product Development staff to develop a true sense of shared responsibility and energy for the entire product, from conception through deployment. Recruiting, mentoring, organizing, motivating, and coaching a team of software engineering professionals. Assigning projects and arranging training to advance the career of everyone within the team. Defining and monitoring goals. Driving the organization’s efforts for improving the teams reporting to you. The Candidate. Has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent work experience, master’s degree a plus. Has 10+ years of industry experience. Is comfortable leading and working with teams of developers and testers, helping them establish a culture of quality, productivity, and innovation. Can learn and contribute towards complex architectures to facilitate team planning, development, and investigation. Has excellent oral and written communication skills. Is comfortable with complex software development projects. Is an innovative thinker able to communicate multifaceted technical concepts. Expert level skills managing and directing the full SDLC, including all aspects of sprint execution, applying full spectrum test methodologies/techniques, CI/CD automation and visibility of all the preceding through focused metrics definition/collection. Thrives in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment with evolving requirements. Can manage through ambiguity and bring definition to issues as a result. A track record of achieving high-quality software product releases and meeting commitments. Interest in and passion for driving both functional and experiential quality. Experience influencing the practices of teams and individuals including design, engineering, operations and support. Professional Qualifications Required Skills: A minimum of 3+ years proven experience in technical management leading stakeholders and team members through large complex system implementations and integrations. Demonstrated leadership skills, communication, collaboration, analytical/problem solving skills, and planning skills in an agile development environment. Experience in web technologies including microservice patterns/architecture, high availability, scalability and cloud native solutions developed on Azure, AWS or GCP. Experience building PaaS solutions preferred. Fluent with one current programming language (Java, C#, JavaScript, etc.), NoSQL technologies, experience with Java or Microsoft frameworks. Fluency in written and spoken English are required. Email your cv to vina.horgan@cpl.ie.

1681 days ago