Manager, Software Engineering

What the Role Offers:

Technically hands-on, guide the team on technical and functional aspects of the project.

• Helps team achieve sprint/release goals while partnering with the Product Manager on overall business goals.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure plans & resources are coordinated, and project deliverables are well defined, scoped and achieved.
• Deliver assigned projects on time, budget and agreed quality standards.
• Drive planning, daily stand-ups and result oriented retrospectives.
• Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure the release goal is achieved.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them.
• Provide resource forecasting and optimize usage of resources.
• Ensure appropriate and timely reporting.
• Provide guidance, technical feedback and ensure project delivery success.
• Be part of organization-wide initiatives and drive the changes.
• Creating a culture that insists on meeting expectations and delivering value
• Drive automation that enables better efficiency and process improvement
• Facilitate regular Steering Committee meetings on containerization and present to senior level management
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, internal and external
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating, and decision-making skills.
• Build and maintain effective relationships within team and its ecosystem (among teams, sustenance, product management etc.,) and collaborate well to drive improvements, leverage and showcase best practices in the context of software delivery.
• Should be able to succeed in an ambiguous environment and be able to cope under pressure and persevere.

What you need to succeed:

• Minimum Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech or equivalent experience in Computer Science
• 10+ years of industry engineering experience and leading agile teams in Scrum Master roles
• Must have hands-on Java full stack development experience in systems level engineering with emphasis on application and communications architecture, data management, and low-level application infrastructure.
• Experience in leading scrum teams and experience is a must. Experience with SAFe is an advantage.
• Documentum or Life Sciences experience is advantage
• An ability to organize, plan and create a team environment where everyone in the team can perform their best.
• Ability to serve as a technical leader and mentor at an architectural and coding level to the team.
• Should have good understanding and hands-on with tools related to CI-CD/DevOps.
• Hands on experience in modern Java, Docker Containers, Kubernetes and Rest Services, Spring, and Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS or any other UI technologies.
• Containerization, DevOps, exposure to Cloud technologies and Hyperscales such as GCP/AWS.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Must be Proactive and result oriented.