Position Purpose:

Software Engineering Managers lead large engineering teams, oversee multiple projects, and ensure that data solutions align with organizational goals and priorities. This role will lead and mentor a large team of data engineers, setting performance goals and overseeing skill development.  Also, this role is responsible for planning, prioritizing, and managing different priorities and their resource allocation and timelines.  Managers collaborate with business stakeholders and senior leadership to ensure data strategy supports business objectives.  The role will interface with Business Stakeholders, Technology Infrastructure teams, and Development teams to ensure that business requirements are properly met. 

Managers should be able to operate independently with minimum guidance from others, although will typically work as part of a team with varying skill levels to create, support, and deploy production applications. This role will review data solutions and provide feedback to improve, based on best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:

Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutionsDocuments, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are metWrites custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test casesWorks with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platformsCreates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactivelyContributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowermentEvaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterpriseParticipates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterpriseFills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:

Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teamsMonitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teamsProvides application support for software running in productionActs as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:

Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software EngineersAttracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering TeamConducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedbackFosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interestsActs as a proponent of modern software development practicesGuides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teamsParticipates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:

Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizationsBuilds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

Must be eighteen years of age or older.Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

5-7 years of relevant work experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Proven experience in leading data engineering and managing technical teams.

Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, data modeling, and ETL processes.

Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database

Experience with project management methodologies and tools.

Exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Experience with modern product development processes and pipelines

Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques

Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly.

Strong ability to work and influence cross-functionally and demonstrate deep business acumen.

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Minimum Education:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

None

Certifications:

None

Competencies:

Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needsBalances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholdersBuilds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goalsBusiness Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goalsCollaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectivesCommunicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiencesDevelops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goalsDrives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectivesDrives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to actionManages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clearOrganizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamicsSituational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations