Software Engineering Manager

American Fidelity

  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    Strong ability to foster necessarycross teamcollaboration, with both technical andnon technicalteams, to meet organizational goals and exceed customer expectations. This includes goal setting, clear communication of performance expectations, ability toassess employee performance objectively, coaching asnecessaryand the ability to recognize employees.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationOklahoma City, Oklahoma

    Description

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    Job Description:

    • Provide leadership for software project teamscomprisedof technical and business colleagues to ensure strategic and business goals are achieved. Responsible for championing, orchestrating,budgeting,and directing multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously and removing impediments when necessary. Provide decision making, technical oversight, and prioritization guidance to project teams.
    • Responsible for resource management of software teams by motivating, coaching, empowering, and fostering a culture of innovation and risk taking for colleagues. Facilitate the continual growth of colleagues byparticipatingin the creation and execution of personal development plans focused on advancing software and technical excellence and strong emotional intelligence. Responsible for resource allocation for projects in collaboration with business and technology leaders. 

    • Collaborate, coordinate, and negotiate with the business to develop technical roadmapsin order toachieve strategicand tacticaldirection. Oversee implementation of technology strategies by ensuring alignment of projects with strategic direction while adhering to standards and best practices. Build andmaintainexcellent relationships with business leaders.

    Additional Skills:

    • Strong understanding of the relationship between systems in the application portfolio as well as their business purpose  

    • Strong knowledge of information technology and software development practices 

    • Strong oral and written communication skills including outstanding interpersonal and consultative skills 

    • Strongability tocommunicate withall levels of management concerning a wide variety of systems initiatives and priorities 

    • Strong ability to mentor, coach, and motivate software project teams and individual team members 

    • Must have the ability and commitment to provide effective feedback and conduct performance evaluations for individual team members. This includes goal setting, clear communication of performance expectations, ability toassess employee performance objectively, coaching asnecessaryand the ability to recognize employees. 

    • Strong ability to foster necessarycross teamcollaboration, with both technical andnon technicalteams, to meet organizational goals and exceed customer expectations. 

    • Significantexperiencein systems analysis, design, and architecture 

    • Excellent interpretation and technicalproblem solvingskills 

    • Excellent collaboration, negotiation, and facilitation skills 

    • Exemplifies well-developedemotional intelligence,motivational, professional, and leadership qualities 

    • Positive attitude with the ability to work inanever changingenvironment 

    • Proven commitment to meeting organizational and departmental strategies, goals,objectives, and standards 

    • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail 

    • Proven ability to partner with the business to understand their needsin order tomeet their business objectives 

    • Provenability to properly blend technological advances with business procedures. 

    • Promotes innovative and creative thinking 

    • Proven ability to execute projects usingorganizationally approved project management methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum, Waterfall) and System DevelopmentLifeCycle(SDLC) 

    • Proven ability to interpret and articulate business requirements for software systems 

    • Demonstration ofa high levelof administrative competencein resource management and reporting 

    • Strong understanding of IT strategy 

    • Strong ability in technologyplanningand roadmap development 

    • Strong understanding of utilized software platforms and the associated interrelationships (e.g., Force.com, PeopleSoft, .NET) 

    • Strong understanding of cloud technologies and their application to the organization 

    • Strong understanding of enterprise level security concepts andtheirimplementations 

    • Proven ability to articulate complex ideas and conceptseffectively 

    • Strong understanding of full-stack development. 

    • Strong understandingof  DevOpsmethodologies (e.g., automation, continuous feedback, quality signal)  

    • Strong understanding and ability to apply machine learning/artificial intelligence concepts to solve business challenges 

    • Strong understanding of code coverage tools 

    • Strong technical recruiting and networking skills 

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