What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Manager position at ASCENDING?
- Looking for candidates that are within 50 miles of Rockville, MD and don't mind going to the office every once in a while
- Must have a CS background and years of coding experience (Java)
- Must be very strong with AWS
- Must be doing code reviews
- Looking for someone that still makes decision in system architecture and could do some coding if needed
- Must have very strong data skills and be able to tell a story with data
Summary:
Our client, one of the largest Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner for data services, is looking for multiple Software Engineering Managers to join their elite team of technologists to build and contribute to large-scale, innovative projects. Our client wants candidates who are eager to learn and grow with them as they work to move their market monitoring applications to modern big data platforms in the cloud where up to 235 billion market events are being processed each day.
Overview:
The Software Engineering Manager will oversee end-to-end development and delivery for a software solution. The solution is a web-based application built on micro-services architectures, single page app (spa) UIs, and AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing CI/CD and Agile methodologies.
Essential Job Functions:
- 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 flexible to manage two types of projects: implementations/configurations of vendor software and agile development of custom solutions
- Influence product and business teams as needed
- 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.
Qualifications:
- Prior role as Manager for a web software development team, including:
- Managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams
- Java technology stack and best practices
- AWS cloud technology
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Managing risks, escalation and production support
- Managing customization and implementation of third-party software into an enterprise
- Communicating with senior management
- Providing leadership to business analysts
- Collaborating with customers
- 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
