Manager - Engineering

Position Scope & Accountability:

• Manages and coordinates the activities of direct reports
• Receives guidance from manager

Management Responsibility & Functional Contribution:

• Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion
• Coordinates work activities with other managers/leaders
• Manages the coordination of activities within own team, often including staffing, scheduling, budgeting, and work process
• Reviews work of team members upon completion for quality, provides coaching and mentoring to team members

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking:

• Identifies technical and operational challenges by analyzing multiple factors and/or leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the functional area
• Decision making and problem solving are largely guided by policies, procedures and departmental plans

Leadership:

• Provides guidance to direct reports
• Drives engineering excellence and foster innovation
• Recommends changes to process and policies that affect immediate team
• Influence decisions through persuasion to drive consensus
• Execute ongoing goal setting, performance and development reviews according to the THRIVE process
• Define and execute detailed technical training plans according to the workforce planning strategy and learning objectives

Collaboration/Relationship Focus:

• Informs senior management of progress, risks related to key goals and objectives
• Collaborate across multiple areas and/or with other departments to achieve project objectives

Qualification/Requirements:

• Bachelors degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience utilizing Agile and Scrum software development methodologies
• 0-2 years of management experience
• Self-motivated, result oriented, problem solving attitude
• High: collaboration, drive for results, people focus, customer focus
• Demonstrable understanding of software engineering processes, including awareness of delivery requirements such as time and cost & an ability to recognize and manage performance with a focus on continuous improvement.