Manager, Software Development- SAS Developer Experience

About the role

We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here.

Responsibilities

• Organize, prioritize and assign resources to deliver high quality, scalable, testable deployment solutions in support of a software as a service delivery platform affecting multiple products.
• Lead operations in an Agile environment to plan delivery of roadmap features and execute prioritization in a dynamic environment.
• Manage and lead project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alert executive management and stakeholders of status and any issues arising in meeting schedules.
• Collaborate with other development organizations, including senior and executive managers, architects and product management, to craft a platform for product delivery, balancing internal initiatives with product initiatives to describe feature prioritization that ensures scalability, evolution, testability, quality and security strategy for now and the future.
• Maintain accountability for entire lifecycle of deployment features and platform development, including support for internal and external customers.
• Provide technical leadership as appropriate for projects and to the team through mentoring, training and managing the activities of the team.
• Manage all aspects of the department including teamwork, performance management, feedback and professional growth through collaboration with SAS human resources, SAS education and executive leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related programming or testing experience, including two years of project technical leadership, supervisory or management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
• Strong leadership skills including feature development in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and react to factors impacting project and resource prioritization.
• You are curious, passionate, authentic and accountable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in one of the major cloud providers ie. AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge and experience around object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible and Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Git, GitHub Workflows, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
• Experience in Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Experience in implementing cloud-native development and deployment pipelines.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays. HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.