What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Software Development Manager position at Overseas Adventure Travel?
Sr. Software Development Manager
We are excited to be expanding our creative and technical digital teams to support our ever-growing and ever-evolving website and online presence. We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Manager who wants to play an integral role in positioning our brands and maintaining the integrity, quality, and authenticity for which we’re known in the travel space.
The Sr. Software Development Manager will be responsible for the strategy and execution of full stack web development and operations at GCC. The ideal candidate will have experience leading digital initiatives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with a proven track record of demonstrating exceptional results through best practices and working in a high-performing team.
We offer a unique opportunity to be part of an already strong global brand and a chance to make your mark on it via our most impactful medium : the web.
With trips in nearly 100 countries, you’ll never run out of new places, people, and cultures to feed your wanderlust. From the Maasai warriors of Kenya to the tranquil temples of Japan, your work will consist of a staggeringly broad range of content, so it’s fair to say “bored” is not in our lexicon.
Grand Circle Corporation is the leader in international travel, adventure and discovery for Americans aged 50 . Headquartered in Boston, MA, we’re a $600M global enterprise with 30 regional offices and over 2,000 associates. Since our founding, over two million Americans have traveled with our award-winning travel brands : Grand Circle Travel, Overseas Adventure Travel and Grand Circle Cruise Lines. Want to go places? Grand Circle Corporation is the place for you.
What you’ll do :
As a Sr. Software Development Manager of our Web Development teams you will :
- Directly manage and grow the leaders of our Development teams, and coach them to manage and grow their own direct reports.
- Demonstrate technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of web solutions from technical design through development, automated testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance / operations.
- Create, review, and suggest improvements to requirements, solution designs and code reviews.
- Lead the teams to establish data driven metrics to understand if the systems in the Web Development organization are operating as expected.
- Help mentor, coach, and develop the Web development team leaders responsible for implementing our CMS components and their supporting services using technologies such as React, Next.js, C#, Docker, Redis and others.
- Define development goals and career development plans for your teams
- Deploy to the cloud using Azure.
- Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your / our established ideas.
- Balance calculated risks, tradeoffs, and consequences in prioritizing and optimizing for sustainable time to value and high-quality engineering.
- Provide ongoing support to internal customers and technical teams.
- Partner with our process leaders to maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices.
- Focus on learning, applying, and extending best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on skills development.
Requirements :
We bring together human insight and digital expertise to anticipate the needs of our customers. Our team members are innovative, technologically sophisticated, and motivated to achieve.
Benefits :
