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Knoxville, TN | Engineering Manager | Full-time
We are actively recruiting an Engineering Manager for our client in Knoxville, TN. This is a hybrid direct placement opportunity that will require some onsite work in Knoxville. The Software Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading a software engineering team, which includes career and talent development, strategic technical vision and planning, capacity and demand management, and project delivery. The successful candidate will be a partner to business customers and will work in concert with the Portfolio Manager to define priorities and deliverables by clearly communicating areas of risk, dependencies, and mitigations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Due to client request, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Responsibilities:
- Coach and mentor development team members to ensure adherence to development standards and practices, and empower team members to pursue autonomy, mastery, and purpose
- Work with team leadership to establish goals and annual KPIs
- Actively work to remove blockers to sprint and project success
- Establish an environment that focuses on rapid delivery, high quality, and low technical debt through self-directed teams
- Maintain focus on continued development of business acumen, ensuring a focus on understanding the business as well as stakeholders, creating on-time, quality, business-oriented results
Qualifications:
- 5 years of software development experience
- Previous experience managing development teams
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- Understanding of AWS, the service it provides, and cost management
- AWS certification preferred, but not required
Desired Skills:
- Broad understanding of technology stacks, architectural practices, and communication patterns
- Can recognize dependencies across teams, work to minimize the impacts, and inform delivery schedules
- Familiarity with document management platforms
- Experience integrating with small and large SaaS solutions
- Understands how to utilize EDA and Microservices to create low dependency interconnected systems
"Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled"
