Manager Software Engineering - Supply Chain

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A Brief Overview
The Software Engineering Manager at Safelite leads agile technology teams and is focused on building and operating applications and systems for Safelite clients and consumers. The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for an application or application suite, including developing new features, enhancements, defect fixes, release planning, deployment, infrastructure, and production support.

The Software Engineering Manager is a people-first leader and will lead teams responsible for application development, with direct reports that includes Software Engineers, System Analysts, and Quality Assurance Analysts. They are responsible for growing associates in all aspects of the development lifecycle, and have strong technical background to adopt new technologies, establish and enhance development practices to deliver the highest degree of software quality while accelerating speed to market.

Software Engineering Manager has knowledge in leading agile practices, continuous development methodologies, driving automated test-driven development, and has a working knowledge of integration and architecture solutions. They also work with IT Senior Management to develop product or department direction and vision that ensures alignment with business strategy.

What you will do

• People leadership, associate engagement, associate development/succession planning, interviewing and hiring, performance management, and feedback; train, coach, and mentor team members on technical skills and soft skills

• Lead agile development teams that include multiple roles, ensure quality deliverables, and following Safelite SDLC; interacting with resource managers to ensure staffing of QA, BA, and DevOps roles

• Act as the product/domain area subject matter expert when meeting with product owners, peers, business stakeholders, and Safelite leadership

• Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of successful large-scale, critical and/or difficult software efforts involving significant work (can be new software or a refactor of existing software)

• Collaborate with Safelite IT functions, including Cloud Engineering, Network, Infrastructure, and other application development teams

• Collaborate with IT Senior Management to develop product, team direction, and vision that ensures alignment with business strategy

• Drives team expectations and goals to ensure the success of the department in alignment and support of Safelite and IT goals

• Creates project and team staffing plans and determines resource needs based on budget, team workload, and project requirements

• Manages product team or project budget, shares budget status, and creates budget planning forecasts

• Establish monitoring and production support procedures; identifying gaps through incident root cause analysis (RCA) and planning improvements to application; improves operations documentation

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience Required

Experience Qualifications

• 7-9 years Relevant experience Required

• Experience building and operating applications using Agile/Scrum methodology Required

• Experience building and operating applications using modern technologies like microservices and cloud-based platforms Required

• Experience with management and supervisory practices; managing others and applying management principles to practical work situations Required

• Experience with managing others managing projects and programs Required

• Experience managing projects and programs Required

• Experience managing project and product budgets Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• C#, .NET (High proficiency)

• HTML/CSS (High proficiency)

• JavaScript (High proficiency)

• SQL (High proficiency)

• Mulesoft (High proficiency)

• Azure Devops (High proficiency)

• AI (Medium proficiency)

• Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale (High proficiency)

• Strong engineering background, ideally experienced with large scale data/distributed systems (High proficiency)

• Full stack experience (High proficiency)

• Experience with cloud based platforms and container services (AWS/GCP/Azure) (High proficiency)

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.Man

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodation will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job's essential duties because of an ADA disability. Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws and regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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