Senior Manager, Platform Development

Partner with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products; Interface with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies; Commit to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction; Align technology to business strategy, and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization; Adopt a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institute a frequent release cadence; Manage a team consisting of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers. Sr Manager of Platform Development, partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products.

Job Description
Sr Manager of Platform Development, partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Sr Manager will oversee a platform engineering team(s) building on our Learning Management Platform and related shared services where our full-time students go to school every day.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Partner with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products;

Interface with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies;

Commit to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction;

Align technology to business strategy, and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization;

Adopt a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institute a frequent release cadence;

Manage a team consisting of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers. Oversee both fulltime and contract resources;

Lead and mentor engineering team members;

Have an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provide thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 7 - 15 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND

Six (6) years' proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND

Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR

An equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

· Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders

· Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations

· Full commitment to customer satisfaction

· Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions

· Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget

· Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development

· Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance

· Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing

· Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS

· Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices

· Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment

· Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills

· Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns

· Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively

· Experience working with offshore and distributed teams

• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.

· Ability to travel 5% of the time

· Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Five (5) years working on and/or leading Agile teams

Five (5) years of broad knowledge of Java