Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech.
US Citizenship Required. 
Active Secret Clearance Required. 
We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our leadership team. The successful candidate will be responsible to coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance.
This position will be responsible for personnel management of a software team to include performance assessment, career development guidance, program assignments, merit and salary actions, training plans, staffing and recruiting.
This role is anticipated to be 75% performing in a technical role and 25% coverage
performing the duties associated with this position.
Major functions:
As the Software Manager you will be responsible for:
- Promoting a productive, engaging and rewarding work environment where employees can
contribute, grow & thrive
- Defining team roles and responsibilities ensuring expectations are clear
- Establishing performance standards and evaluating performance
- Supporting engineers in meeting their commitments
- Compensating and rewarding exceptional performance
- Interviewing, selecting, and onboarding the best talent in the market
- Providing career advice, guidance and supporting growth development plans
- Securing next assignment opportunities for your team
- Leading/supporting technical reviews and guidance as needed
- Enforcing the software development process
- Mentoring team members
- Ensuring team members have the adequate resources to perform their job
- Serving as channel for company communications
- Administering company policies and practices
- Collaborating with peers and direct management in resource planning and hiring activities
Technical Functional skills:
- Experience supporting military or defense programs
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
- Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict
potential programmatic and technical risks
- Strong follow-up skills with attention to detail
- Clear and concise communication in both written and verbal form
- Assertive problem-solving, negotiations, and conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to be diplomatic or firm, when necessary, to move business forward or obtain results
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and tight deadlines with confidence and ease
- Ability to prioritize and organize workload across multiple groups
- Must have proven ability to build trust and inspire others
- Proven experience with the software development lifecycle
- Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working crossfunctionally with multidisciplinary teams
- Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule
performance
Preferred Skills
- Experience in an Agile/SAFe leadership role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train
Engineer, e.g.)
- Candidate must be a strategic, forward thinker with a can-do attitude.
- High desire to provide customer satisfaction.
- 5 years of leadership experience
- 15 years of software development experience
- Proven ability recruiting top talent
Education/Experience/Licenses etc.:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical field or
equivalent education and work experience
- Minimum of 10 years software development experience
- Demonstrated success in prior leadership roles, with 3-5 years leadership experience

About the Company:
Donatech Corporation