Associate Director, Product Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Make critical decisions related to project prioritization, resource allocation, and technical approaches.
• Effectively communicate in a matrixed organization with supervisors, peers, and subordinates to ensure alignment and collaboration within the organization.
• Foster the development of strong and cohesive software engineering teams, encouraging collaboration and mutual support.
• Establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships within the team and across departments.
• Monitor development processes, framework adoption, and project surroundings to ensure adherence to modern architectural patterns and standards.
• Conduct performance evaluations of team members to recognize achievements and identify areas for improvement.
• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing guidance, direction, and motivation to achieve team goals.
• Solve complex problems and provide innovative solutions to overcome technical challenges in product development.
• Develop objectives and strategies for software projects in alignment with overall business objectives.
• Cook off and develop team members, providing opportunities for skill growth and career advancement.
• Evaluate information and software products to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Evaluate the resources required for projects and collaborate with other departments to meet project needs.

Requirements

Not specified.

Qualifications

Not specified.

Skills

• DevOps: Ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams in order to improve and speed up software development processes. Includes automation, continuous delivery, agility, and rapid response to feedback.
• Product Software Engineering: Ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products. Requires understanding user needs, defining functional specifications, designing system architecture, coding, debugging, and ensuring product quality. Knowledge of various programming languages, tools and methodologies, and ability to work within diverse teams and manage projects.
• Cloud Computing: Ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services on the internet rather than on a personal computer or local server. Involves understanding various cloud services (like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), managing resources online, and setting up cloud-based platforms for business environment.
• Implementation and Delivery: Ability to translate plans and designs into action. Involves executing strategies effectively, overseeing the delivery of projects or services, and ensuring they are completed in a timely and efficient manner. Also necessitates the coordination of various tasks and management of resources to achieve the set objectives.
• Problem Solving: Ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.
• People Management: Ability to lead, motivate, engage and communicate effectively with a team. Includes skills in delegation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and understanding team dynamics. Also involves building a strong team culture and managing individual performance.
• Agile: Ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. Denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes in project management.
• APIs: Ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. Includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Also involves understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.
• Analysis: Ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.
• Automation: Ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. Includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.
• Frameworks: Ability to understand, utilize, and create structured environments for software development. Also involves being able to leverage existing frameworks to streamline processes, ensuring better efficiency and code manageability in software development projects.
• Financial Budget Management: Ability to plan, coordinate, control, and execute financial resources over a certain period, and make decisions on distribution of resources efficiently and effectively. Includes estimating revenues, costs and expenses, and ensuring they align with the set goals or targets.
• Application Security: Ability to protect applications from threats and attacks by identifying, fixing, and preventing security vulnerabilities. Involves the use of software methods and systems to protect applications against security threats.
• Architectural Patterns: Ability to understand, analyze, and apply predefined design solutions to structural problems in architecture and software development. Involves applying proven patterns to resolve complex design challenges and create efficient and scalable structures, maintaining balance between functional requirements and aesthetic appeal.

Competencies

• Judgment & Decision Making: Ability to make informed decisions based on available information.
• Accountability: Responsibility for one's actions and decisions.
• Inclusive Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with others, valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity.
• Inspiration & Alignment: Ability to inspire and align others towards common goals.
• Courage to Take Smart Risks: Willingness to take calculated risks to achieve desired outcomes.
• Financial Acumen: Understanding of financial principles and practices necessary for making sound financial decisions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Commuter Benefits
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Vacation and Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave

Pay

$133,400.00 - $238,400.00 USD

Schedule

Not specified.