Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com Primary Skills: 5+ years of commercial software development experience.

Description:-

Responsible for building and leading high performing software engineering team(s) in the eLearning space. Measured by the successfully delivering high quality software on schedule.

• Lead by example - demonstrate tremendous ownership of the team, product and roadmap

• Establish technical objectives, deliverables and priorities and ensure team executes to plan

• Define, track, and report development metrics and milestones to support monitoring and continuous improvement

• Successfully partner with Architecture team to ensure product roadmap and architectural vision are aligned

• Act as a business partner to the Executive Director - proactively identify opportunities to improve the team, process and/or product - formulate proposals and alternatives when confronted with problems - ask for help when necessary - find ways to ensure success

• Recognize issues and patterns across development cycles - eliminate bottlenecks - constantly look for ways to improve our product and processes

• Build strong partnerships with QA, Product Management, Documentation, Operations and peer development teams

• Formulate weekly project status reports - identify and communicate risks and issues - proactively formulate contingency plans

• Mentor and assist development staff - cross train as necessary - avoid single source knowledge silos

• Maintain technical edge - pitch in when necessary

• Anticipate future product and platform requirements - proactively formulate new approaches and processes to ensure market success and product scalability - avoid being blindsided

• Keep abreast of the emerging technologies - champion initiatives that improve productivity and take the product and the team to the "next level"



Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience, at least 2 years in a management or leadership role

• Proven ability to successfully lead development teams, technical leads, managers and architects

• Passion for execution and continuous improvement

• Proven business savvy - able to manage methodology against schedule and balance competing priorities

• Demonstrated ability to motivate teams, maintain morale and encourage team cohesiveness

• Rock solid understanding of best practices and software development methodologies

• Excellent organizational skills - able to plan and execute engineering activities across concurrent release

• Collaborative but decisive personal style; highly effective communicator and problem solver with ability to assess and clearly communicate technical and project risk

• Excellent project management skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline



Success Criteria

You will be measured by results - not mere activity such as:

• Number of meetings you attend

• Number of internal forms you fill out

• Number of 1-1 meetings you have with staff