Job Description

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Description

The Engineering Manager will provide Leadership to teams in the Workforce management/HR Domain, working on developing software to enhance and support the engineering activities.

The candidate must have previous management experience in software development across multiple projects as well as experience with agile/scrum methodologies.

You Will

• Manage a team of 8 - 10 experienced Development Engineers.
• Ability to understand, contribute and deliver technically in the SAAS world, along with the team as and when needed
• Drive and deliver Cloud Native SaaS based software products on-time with high quality; using agile
• Individual should be customer focused and take the end to end responsibilities for the deliverables
• Keep motivating the teams and continually raising the bar and drive their teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes
• Provide mentoring to the team and provide guidance and support in using processes and tools.
• Create environment of learning and always seek to improve teams and self. Curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.
• Define and utilize metrics and reports to manage engineering efforts.
• Define and drive with architects and product stakeholders the strategic aims and roadmap for product as well as testing throughout the SDLC to achieve the department’s aim.
• Provide consulting services on techniques to achieve goals through education, training, coaching and collaboration on design and implementation.
• Be responsible for working closely with architects, developers, and quality assurance
• Exhibit a high degree of skill in matrix management and ability to influence others.
• Expertly facilitate and manage groups and teams around a topic or activity.
• Drive research & development of high performing reusable components and solution accelerators leading to Productivity & Efficiency improvement of Engineering team.
• Keep current on new technologies and make recommendations on future direction

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering at minimum
• 5 years of experience in managing engineering teams at minimum
• Ability to understand, contribute and deliver technically in the SAAS world, along with the team as and when needed
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Works well independently and as part of a team
• Fluency in engineering methodologies and tools as well as understanding of software development processes.
• Strong hold on SAAS, Microservices and Event driven architecture concepts.
• Great understanding of continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process (CI/CD).
• Exp. in Object-oriented analysis, design and programming, database modeling, etc.
• Experience using one or more ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA
• Experience using one or more application frameworks such as Spring
• Expertise in Javascript/Angular/Kotlin, AJAX and other presentation technologies, SOA and Web Services, knowledge of Web Standards and Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery), Java, Springboot, Spring.
• Core product development experience on Saas/Cloud/Multitenant based projects is good to have.
• Experience of managing projects involving SQL server/Oracle/Piostgres/MongoDB and database designs
• Good experience with Unit Testing processes and tools (JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock, etc.)
• Good experience working on JIRA/Confluence and other Project Management tools.
• Hands-on experience with Design Patterns
• Working knowledge of UI, Java or and n-Tier Web technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment is a must.