Manager, Product Software Engineering

Your responsibilities

In this role, you are responsible for planning, delivery, agile process, culture, mentorship, and career progression. You must align with Technical Leads, Architects, and product experts to ensure high-quality functional enhancements and well-designed solutions to technical and functional issues are delivered on time. You act to impact the achievement of product and company objectives positively.

• Own, prioritize, and drive the team’s backlog in collaboration with product owner and architect.
• Ensure that User Stories meet the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done at the appropriate stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Follow and advocate for industry-standard agile software development best-practices to deliver software of high quality, on time.
• Assess any application and process improvement opportunities and prepare documentation to share with team members and stakeholders.

• Ensure user requirements, estimates, and work plans are generated by members of your team and that at least two sprints of work is shovel-ready at all times.
• Review pull requests and give recommendations to improve code quality and best practices.

Team Leadership 

• Ensure the technical correctness, timeliness, and quality of application releases and other team deliverables. 
• Work with the Agile team’s scrum master in the various planning and status meetings to ensure the team members are fully utilized and working on the right tasks. 
• Use problem-solving and communication skills to identify and remove roadblocks that prevent the team from efficiently and correctly completing tasks. 
• Work with the business stake holders to document, apply, and evolve best practices for software development. 
• Perform quarterly and annual performance appraisals for direct reports.

What do you bring to Wolters Kluwer’s Enablon?

• Bachelor of Computer Science, with multiple development specialties or experience; or solid professional track record in software delivery.
• 3+ years of experience as a software developer: Front-end, Full-stack, or Back-end development
• Over all 8+ year of experience as a software engineering manager
• Agile ScrumMaster training a plus
• Experience with Continuous Delivery to the Cloud and best practices around developer experience, continuous deployment, and feature flag management
• Tech stack: GitHub, Azure DevOps, .Net Core/ Java (back-end and full stack), React JS (front-end and full stack).
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of the standard tools for continuous integration and delivery.