Engineering/Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

- Supervise up to seven software developers, including offshore contractors.

- Manage several simultaneous agile product development projects through the full lifecycle. Track user stories and defects.

- Ensure development process is followed.

- Report project status to peers, executives, and customers.

- Collaborate with Product Managers and Account Managers to define project scope, schedule, and resources.

- Organize peer reviews for designs, code, and other work products.

- Enforce quality standards including: code conventions, unit testing, static analysis, revision control.

- Coordinate with QA/QC staff for product functional and system testing.

- Recommend product, process, and tooling improvements.

- Manage staff training plans and mentor direct reports for career development.

- Conduct annual employee reviews for direct reports.

- Recruit and interview new employees.

Requirements:

- Minimum 13 years’ experience developing commercial products, web applications, or services used by external customers.

- Minimum 5 years’ experience managing employees and projects.

- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodology (Scrum) and industry best practices.
Certified ScrumMaster, PMI PMP, Test Driven Development (TDD) experience, and rally experience are pluses.

- Thorough understanding of fundamental software engineering and computer science principles: object-oriented
design, structured design,databases, algorithms, data structures, usability, refactoring, debugging, and
configuration management.

- Excellent design and problem solving skills.

- Thorough understanding of service oriented architecture (SOA) concepts.

- Thorough understanding of application security issues, including common web application exploits.

- Disciplined, engineering oriented mind set.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills.

- Strong technical and platform knowledge, including some or all of: Java/JSE/JEE/JSF, JBoss Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM Lotus Domino,XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP, HL7, LDAP, SQL, XQuery, Maven. Formal training and/or certification in any of those tools and technologies a plus.

Nitesh