Manager, Software Development (AML)

About the role

The Government & Fraud Division is looking for a Manager, Software Development to lead a team of 6-8 software developers and SDETs and collaborate with other managers and technical leads to manage software development work in a highly collaborative organization. This role will be responsible for managing the development of the Anti-Money Laundering and other compliance applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the team, including development and testing, internal and external communication/collaboration, performance management and improvement, and professional growth.
• Understand the career objectives of your team members and support them on their journey to achieve them.
• Work with product management, project management and development team to understand, refine, and scope planned work.
• Ensure that projects are completed and implemented in a timely manner while following established procedures and schedules.
• Regularly communicate development and testing status, project risks, resource requirements and allocation, and other relevant knowledge with upper management.
• Ensure R&D standards and guidelines are followed per established criteria, including adoption of the appropriate technology and architecture standards.
• Become actively involved in daily operations and duties as needed to meet schedules or to resolve complex problems or issues.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 8+ years of related programming or testing experience, including one year of project lead, supervisory or management experience.
• Experience in leading projects to deliver high quality, scalable, performant and secure code.
• Experience in developing applications for the cloud including the use of one of more of the large cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience in CI/CD and DevOps using GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Experience with Agile practices and collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence.
• Familiarity with SAS products (nice to have).
• Familiarity with microservice architectures, container technologies.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and public cloud provider technologies.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with establishing and sustaining trusting relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting own and others’ emotions and behavior; leveraging insights to effectively manage own responses so that one’s behavior matches one’s values and delivers intended results.
• Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.
• Driving organizational and cultural changes needed to achieve strategic objectives; catalyzing new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services; helping others overcome resistance to change.