Manager, Software Development- SAS Developer Experience

Software Development Manager – SAS Developer Experience- Hybrid | Cary, NC 

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About the Role

Are you a leader with a strong software development background who thrives in an innovative and collaborative team environment?  Do you enjoy identifying opportunities for increased efficiency through automation and innovation and turning them into well-crafted product deployment software, pipelines, and techniques?  Are you organized and passionate about working together with other organizations to form practical approaches to development and deployment strategy to produce world class product offerings?

As a Software Development Manager, you’ll join the SAS Development Experience organization to lead a strong development team in creation of a world-class software as a service product delivery platform, starting with our newest, most innovative platform to date: SAS® Viya® Workbench.

In this high-impact role, you’ll lead a highly collaborative, innovative, and energetic team’s efforts to codify the full software lifecycle—from development and testing to deployment and delivery—through robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). You’ll shape and guide the approach to a uniform product delivery platform affecting present and future cloud products at SAS from the ground up.

As a Software Development Manager, you will:

• Organize, prioritize and assign resources to deliver high quality, scalable, testable deployment solutions in support of a software as a service delivery platform affecting multiple products.
• Lead operation in an Agile environment to plan delivery of roadmap features and execute prioritization in a dynamic environment.
• Manage and lead project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alert executive management and stakeholders of status and any issues arising in meeting schedules.
• Collaborate with other development organizations, including senior and executive managers, architects and product management, to craft a platform for product delivery, balancing internal initiatives with product initiatives to describe feature prioritization that ensures scalability, evolution, testability, quality and security strategy for now and the future.
• Maintain accountability for entire lifecycle of deployment features and platform development, including support for internal and external customers.
• Provide technical leadership as appropriate for projects and to the team through mentoring, training and managing the activities of the team.
• Manage all aspects of the department including teamwork, performance management, feedback and professional growth through collaboration with SAS human resources, SAS education and executive leadership.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of related programming or testing experience, including two years of project technical leadership, supervisory or management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
• Strong leadership skills including feature development in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and react to factors impacting project and resource prioritization.
• You are curious passionate, authentic and accountable.  These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in one of the major cloud providers ie. AWS, Azure, or GCP. 
• Knowledge and experience around object-oriented programming languages. 
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible and Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Git, GitHub Workflows, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of and experience in Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Experience in implementing cloud-native development and deployment pipelines.

World-class benefits   

Highlights include... 

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.  
• Medical plan options include:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.  
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).  
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!  
• An industry-leading 401k plan.  
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.  
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.  
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees. 

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Additional Information

 To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

Job level will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

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