Software Development Manager

An ideal candidate is passionate about serving people, ensuring their strong engagement, successful performance, and adaptability in a face-paced environment. You find fulfillment in developing high-performing teams to deliver technology-enabled business outcomes. You are adept in building relationships and effective collaboration. You excel in communication and are regarded as a change agent and thought leader. In this role you will wear many hats, with a focus of delivering exciting technology solutions for our clients and growing our internal staff in technology. You will be managing a team of approximately 15 resources (mix of employees / domestic and offshore contractors) responsible for the delivery of designated projects and the delivery of quality software.

We’ll need you to achieve the following:

• Drive the workflow platform to achieve stated business objectives with a focus on BPM design and engineering

• Lead team members across scrum teams and work with partners to deliver applications across the full software development lifecycle - designing, developing, testing, and supporting software applications
• Influence, refine, and communicate architecture designs and technologies to develop modern middle office applications, with a strong focus on operational efficiency.

• Build on the automation capabilities for the team and deliver associated roadmap

• Build meaningful relationships with partners in many different parts of the firm to achieve targeted deliverables

• Focus on building the skills of your team and raising their certification levels

• Leverage excellent communication skills to influence your own staff through senior executives

• Implement software development best practices as the go-to development partner between principals and the scrum team members
• Manage talent acquisition by identifying resource needs, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new engineers and analysts
• Provide project execution transparency and communicate with senior management and stakeholders on application and project status, risks, and issues; create reporting artifacts such as burn-down charts, project roadmaps with key milestones, and status reports

We have an exciting role for a self-motivated leader who is up for delivering transformational change. We are looking for someone with the following background:

• A university degree or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of software experience delivering projects and working with software engineering practices.
• 5+ years of experience with running development and testing for large, complex projects with cross-functional dependencies
• Experience managing a matrixed organization to achieve delivery outcomes (product owners, QA, platform support, other teams).

• Experience and skills to work with resources in different geographic locations, including offshore

• Experience with workflow automation tooling is preferred.
• Financial services industry experience is preferred.

Leadership & management

• Experience successfully driving technology change initiatives in an organization
• Experience hiring exceptional technology staff with ability to coach, manage and grow staff
• Skilled at tactfully communicating sensitive information
• Handles difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual
• Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and career plans to fruition
• Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities
• Assesses training needs and selects training tools for team members
• A visible leader that yearns for developing and motivating the next technology leaders
• Ability to drive through, directly and through influence, efficient solution strategy, with agility and leadership skills which engineers recognize and respect

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  Shows a commitment to high ethical standards and integrity, demonstrated through action
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Inquisitive, analytical, a strategic thinker, proactive and solutions-oriented
• High-energy, positive, and entrepreneurial in spirit while goal-oriented and results-driven
• A self-starter who takes initiative and can work independently
• Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to work across business and technology domains

Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.

Benefits: A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home—today and in the future. Explore further.

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