As the Development Manager for the ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting (OSR) team, you will lead a team of dedicated software development engineers, guiding them in the successful execution of technology projects and solutions that directly align with our strategic objectives and deliver significant business impact. You will collaborate closely with your development teams to deeply understand key OSR features and their underlying functionality, while also fostering strong partnerships with Product Management and UX Design to ensure our solutions meet market needs. This role will see you influencing and governing the entire end-to-end software development life cycle for OSR, encompassing the management of support, maintenance, minor functional releases, and major strategic projects. You will be instrumental in leading and providing technical guidance for process improvement programs, consistently leveraging engineering best practices within the team. As a vital people leader, you will be responsible for recruiting, training, motivating, coaching, and fostering the growth and development of your OSR Software Development Engineer team members across all levels, utilizing your technical expertise and providing continuous feedback to ensure we consistently meet employee expectations, customer needs, and product demands.
About the role:
Scope
- Manage and provide technical support to technical engineering team across multiple initiatives
- Develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle.
Sphere of Influence
- Leads multiple cross-functional - project teams
- Balanced strategic and tactical focus
- Excellent cross-functional influencer
- Ensures engineering teams are effectively executing efficiently, effectively addressing issues that arise.
- Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
- Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
- Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management.
Delivery
- Evaluates new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors
- Manages building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.
- Provides suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
- Uses technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain
- Comfortable talking about and learning about every part of the infrastructure/technology stack to find optimizations and efficiency
- Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Accountable for the successful execution of technology projects including support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases and major products.
Leadership
- Influences and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s)
- Socializes and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap
- Leads through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams
- Addresses objections and concerns effectively and independently
- Seeks to gain and understand differing perspectives; commits to decisions once made
- Continuously looks for opportunities to improve business or process
- Communicates and presents effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization
- Outstanding organizational and communication skills (oral, written and interpersonal) including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Accountable for technical delivery across multiple projects/products by providing guidance and support to project leads to assist in removing project impediments.
People Management
- Demonstrates people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams
- Ensures team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s
- Set goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress
- Identifies development areas and provides timely feedback and coaching to direct reports; effectively addresses under-performance observing mindsets and behaviors of model, coach and care
- Attracts and develops great talent, while setting a high bar and elevating existing team
- Provide guidance and direction; ensures team is focused on the most important priorities
About you:
To be a suitable candidate for this Development Manager position, you must have:
- Strong Technical Acumen: Demonstrates deep technical expertise, capable of providing hands-on support, developing new approaches to ambiguous problems, evaluating new technologies, and identifying infrastructure/technology stack optimizations.
- Proven Leadership & Influence: Possesses the ability to lead multiple cross-functional project teams through influence, articulate a clear vision, and effectively align diverse stakeholders to strategy and roadmap.
- Strategic and Tactical Balance: Capable of maintaining both a strategic outlook and a focus on tactical execution, ensuring efficient delivery and addressing immediate issues.
- Exceptional Communication Skills: Exhibits outstanding oral, written, and interpersonal communication, including the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and effectively address objections.
- Accountable for Delivery: Holds a strong sense of accountability for the successful execution of technology projects across multiple products, including support, maintenance, and major releases.
- People-Centric Leader: Demonstrates strong people leadership skills, focused on recruiting, developing, coaching, and motivating technical teams, setting clear goals, and providing timely, constructive feedback.
- Problem-Solver & Process Improver: Proactively identifies opportunities for business and process improvement, provides suggestions for complex technical problems, and escalates issues appropriately.
- Continuous Learner: Stays current with new and evolving technologies through both formal training and self-directed education.
What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
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