Senior Director, Software Development

Company: SPECTRUM
Location: Broomfield
Posted on: October 17, 2020

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for managing the Software Engineering organization and creating formal enterprise wide strategy and plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications and services. Manage engineering teams that covers end-to-end that includes significantly improve test automation. Manages multiple programs, projects and initiatives from software services perspective. Subject Matter Expertise in Agile, improving flow, embedding continuous improvement and creating predictable delivery culture of all software services.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Actively and consistently supports all efforts to enhance the customer experience

Actively and consistently supports different stakeholders to ensure the highest quality software products to our customers through an effective and 24/7 support team.

Creates the enterprise wide Software Development strategy in each project and review / refine the strategy based on the organizational needs

Manages the level of effort and department level budgets

Defines and reviews software metrics across all programs/projects in Software Engineering

Manage priorities in the Software Services projects and resolve escalations

Reviews data for software process evaluation and improvements and provides recommendations to address the business needs

Establishes a dynamic, highly motivated Software team with outstanding competencies in the company''s core products, technologies and processes.

Defines and reviews test automation strategies

Defines the QA tools, dashboards, QA metrics required to deliver consistently high quality products and applications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

Strong leadership and communication skills (written and verbal)

Previous experience as an Engineering C-Level in a small business

Expert ability to communicate with executive leadership able to convey complex tech issues in simple layman terms

Ability to Architect enterprise level agile teams/orgs at scale

Proven Subject matter expertise with advanced enterprise Kanban at scale

Strong organizational skills

Proven expertise at building hi-tech industry recognized high performance teams

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Experience in managing large teams of size 75+

Ability to prioritize, plan and resolve escalations based on the project requirements

Ability to lead a team through delegation, effective team management and motivation

Ability to work with cross-functional team and senior leadership team

Excellent ability to work well with shifting priorities

Excellent ability to track multiple test efforts simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results in fast paced environment

Experience in Cloud Environment and Software engineering

Critical thinker, ability to negoiate with key stakeholders and maintain positive attitude

Display professional, positive, and approachable attitude/demeanor and discretion

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, Access) and tools such as JIRA, GitHub,

Strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies

Drive an innovation culture within the team

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience

Related Work Experience

14+ years of Software Engineering

WORKING CONDITIONS

Office environment

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