Sr. Manager, Development

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead through example and persuasion, rather than through tasking/directing
• Lead the organization to teach and promote Agile best practices
• Present observed risks/issues to appropriate parties to create awareness and prompt discussion
• Understand and foster culture of quality throughout the organization
• Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrate a passion for people development and mobility
• Closely follow industry trends and the open-source community
• Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations, internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort
• Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Extensive experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum or other scaled Agile model
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Strategic thinker: think end-to-end by connecting all pieces of the business (development, product management, QA, operations, etc.) to deliver the features to delight the customer while leveraging all available assets
• Energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done
• Can create a fun, fast paced, motivating, and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization
• Attract, build, and retain highly engaged and capable Agile teams who help drive the success of our technology and business strategies
• Are creative, turning problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better processes
• Bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment
• Are self-motivated and excellent problems-solvers
• Are driven to improve, personally and professionally
• Hunger to learn new concepts, new technologies, and be exposed to/adopt new ideas
• Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them
• Have 4+ years professional experience as a development manager in an agile environment including working with enterprise customers on large scale projects
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Proven track record in leading architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale web delivery platforms, products and services in a high performance and high-availability SaaS environment
• Can interact with customers to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Experience with .NET, as well as common frameworks and infrastructure
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL
• Ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization
• Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth

Nice to Have

• Experience with enterprise-scale web delivery platforms, products, and services
• Experience with high performance and high-availability SaaS environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (implied from professional experience requirements)

Benefits & Perks

• Travel up to 10% of the time
• Opportunities for career growth and development
• Work in a collaborative, innovative environment