Manager, Software Development

Software Engineering Team Management – 80%

• Manage the team of software engineers expanding, enhancing and evolving cloud software back-end supporting operations of the Electrify America EV charging network
• Work with the IT staff to coordinate access to the hardware and development tools that may be required for software development
• Work with product managers to ensure that the team has accurate and understood stories and requirements
• Jointly with product management interface with our internal/external stakeholders to understand requirements and priorities to help aligning the development team
• Participate in grooming and priority setting sessions with stakeholders
• Develop and analyze key metrics to assess work progress, technical debt, code quality; apply metrics to take corrective actions; provide inputs into team’s planning activities to balance new development, elimination of technical debt, software maintenance and support
• Coordinate access to system architecture, cybersecurity, UI/UX experts when their inputs are needed
• Work with the cybersecurity lead to request and complete analysis, testing, reviews within a secure development lifecycle; manage response to vulnerability impact assessments
• Maintain up to date information about third-party software used in EA solution, keep track of licensing and renewal requirements
• Ensure compliance of software engineers with job-specific training requirements
• Plan and organize L3 (engineering) support for business-critical software issues
• Attract, hire, mentor and coach software development engineers at different levels of experience
• Drive improvements to the software development practices
• Enable and foster innovation
• Provide day-to-day, ongoing leadership, including feedback, team alignment, and development.
• Champion direct reports’ career growth and identify development opportunities to help them grow.
• Increase teams’ skills and knowledge, enabling them to expand connections across the organization and increase exposure to the industry.

Cross-Department Engagement (10%)

• Establish and maintain effective working relationship with counterparts in QA, Product Management, Support and other teams to identify and eliminate inefficiencies
• Foster collaboration and transparency across different functions
• Champion better and innovative ways to get results and be an active change agent

Industry Engagement (10%)

• Represent EA in the relevant technical workgroup and committees in the industry
• Assist engaging potential customers and partners providing technical knowledge and expertise
• Stay up to date with the technology and vendor changes impacting EA software

Years of Relevant Experience:

• 10 years of experience leading and managing teams of software engineers.
• 10 years in the software development field working directly within engineering teams.

Education:

BS Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field

Skills:

• Communication skills – relationship management, presentations
• Writing – ability to effectively and professionally communicate with internal and external stakeholders, to develop powerpoint decks or internal and external use
• Resource management – optimization of headcount, budget, time across potentially conflicting priorities
• People management – develop people, act as a change agent for continuous improvement
• Creative thinking – developing new solutions to support efficiencies, competitiveness and growth
• Influencing and negotiation skills – ability to bring all stakeholders to topic resolution
• Team leadership – lead and motivate development teams

Specialized Skills (Required)

• In-depth knowledge and practical experience across all phased of the Software Development Lifecycle; knowledge of best practices and software development methodologies
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles, activities and rituals
• Knowledge principles and demonstrated ability to implement TDD principles and manage quality-centric software development
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts and key practices in secure software development
• Experience in cloud hosted SaaS, Cloud PaaS, AWS/Azure or similar platform
• Understanding of SOA concepts and architecture
• Familiar with Java development stack, development and deployment tools
• Strong understanding of user engagement, business goals and the ability to lead a team in converting those goals into product requirements and priorities

Specialized Skills (Desired):

• Experience designing software architectures for scalability, reliability, and performance
• Experience leading teams developing mission critical software operated 24x7.
• Understanding of PKI and use of certificates
• A passion for people management and mentorship

Work Flexibility:

• Moderate flexibility – able to work remote part time, but in person meetings may be required
• 5% domestic and international travel