**Overview** Panasonic Canada Inc. is currently looking to hire for the position of **SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.** Manages design, development, testing, menus, planning, and delivery of complex software solutions. Manages software development teams under the guidance of Group Manager - Software Development. Ensures the team is aligned with the company’s strategic goals. Drives engineering excellence, and deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure software products in timely manner. Manages work items and coordination between development, quality assurance and menu teams. Coordinates with stakeholders on various items and deliverables. Identifies and manages technical debt. Keeps up to date with technology, hardware and software applications, company product and service offerings. Provides mentoring and manages workload for development, QA, and menu staff. This is a full-time position. This position is hybrid. Any office-based work will be performed from our Mississauga office at Ambler Drive with requirement to go to the Niagara on the Lake office on a need basis. **Responsibilities** + Manages, mentors, and leads a team of software developers, QAs, and menu analysts promoting a collaborative and innovative environment. Conducts and drives meetings as required. Manages team schedule & leave requests, ensuring proper coordination and project continuity. + Facilitates effective communication across teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Provides regular updates and status reports to group manager as required and requested. Ensures employment equity objectives are met. + Provides guidance and technical direction to the team ensuring best practices in coding, design, architecture, and software development methodologies are followed. Oversees architectural design of the products and new features ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability in collaboration with architect, dev lead and group manager. + Creates and maintains coding guidelines document for the team. Perform regular code reviews. Communicates results to group manager. Actively codes in .NET technologies and SQL as required. Validates estimates and solutions provided by team members. Contributes to server and infrastructure management. + Drives the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, planning, development, testing, deployment, and post-release support with the help of team members and stakeholders. + Manages implementation of quality assurance processes including automation testing. Collaborates with QA team to improve test coverage across products and that the software meets or exceeds performance and security requirements. + Manages team capacity, backlog grooming, assigns tasks, and ensures timely & quality delivery of projects. Identifies and suggests process improvements to the group manager. Implements process improvements based on approval and direction given by group manager. + Sets goals, conducts regular one on one meetings, provides constructive feedback, and conducts performance reviews. Mentors, guides, coaches’ staff either directly, or through senior staff. + Ensures staff development that keeps up with new technologies, product development, and that is consistent with the company objectives. Ensures continuity of function by cross-training staff as required. + Participates in hiring, dismissal, performance evaluation, and the resolution of other staff issues. + Provide updates and status reports on business requirements, development priorities, and project plans including scope and deliverables to the management as required and requested. + Upgrades knowledge and skills in current and emerging technologies. Ensures continuous improvement objectives are met. + Organizes training sessions and promotes knowledge sharing within the team. Ensures the team stays up to date with the latest technologies and practices, encouraging adoption of modern development tools and techniques. **Qualifications** + 3- or 4-year University or College degree in Computer Sciences, with minimum 8 years related application development and people management experience. + .NET core, ASP.net, C#.net, VB.net, TSQL, System design, Microservices, Dependency Injection, OOPS, SOLID Principles, Cybersecurity, Multi-tier Architecture, AWS/Azure Cloud technologies, integrations, API, XML, JSON, pipelines, IIS, MS Project, MS Office, Project tracking tools (JIRA/Azure DevOps). + Web and Windows desktop applications. Knowledge and experience working on POS systems is a plus. + Predominantly routine and significant problem solving, with some complex and some highly complex problem solving required to provide technical solutions to meet customer needs. + Courteous exchange of factual information. Communication of technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. + Rapport required to elicit productive answers to investigative questions. + Communicates instructional concepts to junior team members, with a sensitivity to personal ability and cultural diversity. May from time to time communicate bad news. **BENEFITS & PERKS – WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:** Panasonic Canada prioritizes total wellbeing. We offer a wide variety of benefits and programs to support your physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health. ​ + Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage with a Health Spending Account + Panasonic Retirement Pension Plan (RPP/DCPP) + Group Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) + Generous Parental Leave Top Up + Education Assistance Program/ Tuition Reimbursement + Employee Purchase Program + Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) + Competitive Rates on Home and Auto Insurance + Employee Volunteer Program – Paid Time Off for Volunteer Days + Onsite Events! + And many more benefits & perks **HYBRID WORK MODEL** Panasonic Canada Inc. supports a hybrid work model. We understand that flexibility is essential for employees to do their best work while also balancing personal and life needs. Employees can expect to be in the office for a variable number of days per week based on the needs of the business unit, while having the ability to also work remote. Panasonic Canada Inc. offers a Flexible Work Options policy which includes the ability to work remote, mobile, and create a compressed work schedule. **WHO WE ARE:** Meet Panasonic (https://careers.na.panasonic.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/Panasonic%20Talent%20Brand%20Book%202023.pdf) ! Panasonic Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation of North America, is a leading provider of Consumer Lifestyle technologies, as well as innovative Smart Mobility, Sustainable Energy, Immersive Experiences, and Integrated Supply Chain solutions for its business and government clients. Panasonic is creating technologies that move us (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-x\_hDfMqb0) . At Panasonic Canada, we do more than just offer great products and solutions. We pride ourselves in promoting gender and culture equality, as well as encouraging personal growth and success to elevate our 350+ employees to their full potential. Their passion has been one of the driving forces behind our success for more than 100 years. **HOW TO APPLY** Please include a PDF copy of your current resume. **DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION AT PANASONIC CANADA, INC.** In order to drive our business to continued heights, our business practices and our contribution to society must be rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We foster an environment in which everyone is able to share their voice and talents, in a safe space, where they have the opportunity and resources to fully realize their potential. We are therefore committed to developing and realizing programs, tools and processes that ensure a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for our employees. **AODA POLICY** Panasonic Canada Inc. has an accommodation process in place and provides accommodations for job applicants with disabilities as appropriate. Assessment and selection materials and procedures can be made available in accessible formats and methods as appropriate. If you require a specific accommodation because of disability or medical need, please let us know when selected to take part in our recruitment process so that reasonable arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodations to be in place as you move through our process. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. We thank you for your interest in working for Panasonic Canada Inc. \#LI-HYBRID REQ-150076