Software Engineering Manager

6 months ago

Reston, United States CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Full time

PURPOSE:


Manages and oversees the teams responsible for design and development of software applications, and their operations and maintenance Directs the work of engineers to ensure the best practices around software development. Provides oversight of enterprise software solutions to ensure successful implementation of released applications

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Empowers a team of software engineers, business analysts, and scrum masters who may be matrixed into development teams to develop scalable software solutions that deliver business value. Provides best practices for analysis, design, software development and quality engineering activities toward the implementation of complete, end-to-end solutions. Work closely with third parties and stakeholders to manage risks and dependencies in order to deliver features across multiple projects and teams efficiently. Remove impediments associated with hand-off to external dependencies during execution. Coordinates the review of requirements with vendors, stakeholders and architects. Liaison to address any vendor specific blockers during execution. Define, develop and articulate different delivery and resource management methodologies of projects based on the stakeholder needs

Develop staff through coaching, timely performance feedback, and assessments, and conflict management.. Establish performance and development plans. Ensure a constantly rising bar of technical excellence and professional growth. Manage, mentor, and coach to ensure continued growth and development to aid in achieving career goals. Ensure team members understand individual commitments as well as team and company goals, helping the teams achieve Sprint completion and release dates. Ensures that the team(s) has the right skills and capability to deliver; addresses gaps through reskilling and/or hiring. Ensure retention of top talent and identify methods for keeping high performers engaged and growing

Recommend and develop solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and organizational impacts. Works with cross functional teams to meet business objectives. Research and identify opportunities to expand the team’s capacity with lower cost development resources. Develop the business model for remote teams and recommend the vendor based on a suitable criteria. Ensure the local team understands the outsourcing strategy and their role with the remote teams to retain talent. Manage expenses to ensure effective use of capital and cash flow. Provide budget estimates and spending forecasts. Analyze past spend and account for discrepancies.

Facilitates all aspects of software development from planning, testing, and quality assurance to implementation. Ensure adherence to IT best practices and the organization’s SDLC. Make appropriate team assignments and encourage the team to embrace processes that drive sustainable improvements. In conjunction with Product Management, help the team estimate features for release planning with a mindset of continuously improving estimation accuracy. Tack and report on team’s progress towards completion of assigned deliverables.

Serve as a channel of prioritization, escalation,and marshal the appropriate resources to resolve urgent or high severity issues quickly and efficiently while minimizing the impact to customers. 


SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
This position manages people.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Licenses/Certifications Upon Hire Preferred:
Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach.

Experience:

5 years Related professional experience. 1 year Supervisory experience or demonstrated progressive leadership experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Ability to prioritize projects and allocate resources based on organizational goals. Ability to establish relationships and credibility with engineers. Ability to cultivate a collaborative, high-performing team environment. Understanding of distributed computing principles. Collaborating on a cross-functional team to execute against our product road map. Experience working with relational databases. Select, monitor, coach, develop, and grow employees. Support the operations and business continuity. Knowledge and experience with various delivery methodologies. Experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) and delivery. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems. Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines. Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project. Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers. Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation. Ensure code quality standards, deployment methodologies and practices. Knowledge of code deployment architecture and methodology. Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback. Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise. Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

Department

Department: 

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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