Optomi, in partnership with a leading company within the financial industry, is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join their growing team in Rockville, MD!

What the right Candidate will enjoy:

• Hybrid work schedule!
• Work with a creative team and exciting projects!
• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology!

Experience of the right candidate:

• Experience managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams.
• Experience managing risks, escalation and production support.
• Experience communicating with senior management.
• Experience providing leadership to business analysts.
• Experience collaborating with customers.
• Experience developing strategies and solutions of high business value while becoming a trusted partner of business users and executives.
• Strong and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Strong technical background.
• Experience as technical lead or architect on a software team.
• Able to evaluate complex project risks and issues accurately and objectively.
• Understand, promote and easily talk to the tenets of building high quality software.
• Experience in implementing design patterns and ability to adapt to changing patterns quickly.
• Big picture thinker who can look ahead to long-term impacts to the decisions made.
• Motivational leader.
• Passionate and enthusiastic personality.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
• Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace.
• Manage personalities to ensure a strong team environment.
• Java technology stack and best practices.
• AWS cloud technology.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience with implementing process improvements to raise the bar of software quality and delivery.

Responsibilities of the right candidate:

• Ensure delivery of high quality, highly reliable software solutions.
• Provide leadership to the team to include hiring, coaching and mentoring of varied levels of software engineers.
• Work with technical leads, architects and product owners to ensure the team’s work is aligned with enterprise-level architectural standards and solution delivered is of the highest quality.
• Act as an expert technical resource for enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and software development.
• Be an effective and high energy technical leader that serves as an advocate and change agent with respect to Agile practices.
• Steer the direction of Agile development efforts for one or more enterprise-level development initiatives.
• Assess current software development practices and principles to identify and implement process and software improvements.
• Ability to communicate business goals to software engineering team and team accomplishments to senior staff members.
• Consistently deliver solutions on a regular schedule, communicate changes and coordinate with integrated teams to ensure application reliability.