Engineering Manager-(Onsite) Overland Park, KS

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to team of software development professionals.
• Maximize the capability and capacity of resources to deliver high quality solutions on time and within scope.
• Identify opportunities to practice and champion continuous improvement through projects, productivity assessments and other metric-driven insights.
• Manage to, and report on operational metrics and status, including but not limited to queue churn, trending, resource utilization, risk assessment and mitigation, project initiatives, and department-related data elements.
• Make timely and effective decisions to ensure the team continues to move forward while balancing current and future roadmap objectives.
• Lead change initiatives and develop strategies to support change in engineering processes and strategy.
• Accountable for resources’ ability to improve knowledge and skills required for software development teams to advance and leverage the latest in programming languages, industry standards and software development methodologies.
• Establish and manage to financial budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of technical experience in software development.
• At least 5 years of experience hands on coding, .NET is preferred, open to Java, JS, etc.
• At least 3 years of large, complex project management experience.
• At least 2 years of leading a team of technical staff.
• At least 2 years of experience with full lifecycle development and using Agile methods.

Qualifications

• Preferred Experience designing, building and operating – secure, scalable and highly available web and mobile applications, large-scale distributed systems using service-oriented architecture and message queue architecture – in the cloud.
• Understanding of cloud-based SaaS architectures – involves designing elastic solutions, distributed state, availability, scalability, etc.
• Adept in Object Oriented Design.
• Excellent analytical, design and troubleshooting skills.