SENIOR MANAGER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Company: Ultimate Software
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you will find the contact information to request the appropriate accommodation by visiting the following page: UKG is looking to hire a Senior Manager of Engineering to join our extremely talented Foundation and Integrations Team. The Senior Manager of Engineering is responsible for the direct management of fast evolving product engineering teams, improvement in processes and service quality, strategic planning and management of resources. Plays a critical role in enhancing and enabling business capabilities through technology innovation and collaboration with the business, manage and execute a development roadmap and possesses a true passion for technology that is readily apparent in their past experience and/or personal projects as well as is an expert with the technologies being used by the team. Balance this with building relationships with their business product owners to execute the development roadmap.-- Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities :

• Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Recruit IT professionals with business and industry experience, and develop, reward and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization. Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
• Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives
• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps
• Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps
• Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases Required Qualifications :--
  • 5 years of relevant industry experience, with 3 years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience (managing teams of 8 or more developers). Large scale systems design experience.
  • Experience with Cloud based applications
  • Experience with Containerization Technologies
  • Experience with Integrating Internal or External enterprise systems via APIs, Events, Messages, or other integration implementations
  • Experience in Lean-Agile development methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum.
  • Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies
  • Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (I.e. FTEs, not contractors)
  • Passionate about people, process, and technologies and able to inspire and motivate others.
  • Ability to build and maintain positive and productive relationships with a diverse array of partners and groups in the organization.
  • Strong work ethic with a sense of ownership, urgency, and drive and an unwavering dedication to do the right thing.
  • Validated leadership in facilitating complex discussions to achieve goals and tackle problems. Validated analytical and decision-making skills. Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training
    • University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Management. Equivalent--experience related to the requirements above also considered. Travel Requirements : Please estimate the percentage of time an employee in this position would be expected to travel.
      • 10-30% Disclaimer: This job description has been written to provide an accurate reflection of the current job and to include the general nature of work performed. It is not designed to contain a comprehensive detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employees assigned to the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change. Ultimate Software will reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities as defined by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other appropriate statutes. If you are an applicant and need a reasonable accommodation when applying for job opportunities within the Company or request a reasonable accommodation to utilize the Company's online employment application, please contact accessibility@ultimatesoftware.com . It has come to our attention that some people have been contacted online by persons impersonating job recruiters for Ultimate Software. These fraudulent "recruiters" have used Gmail accounts to contact, and have requested personal information, such as depositing a check to purchase work-related supplies. These are not legitimate recruiters or job offers, and do not represent Ultimate Software. To safely apply for and view open positions at Ultimate Software, please click "Apply" and follow the instructions. Note that our recruiter emails always come from an official ultimatesoftware.com email address. If you suspect you have been the victim of this or a related fraud, immediately contact your financial institution, and then file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov . If you shared other personal or sensitive information, you may need to take additional actions relative to what was shared. Your local law enforcement department may also be able to assist. For any general security related questions regarding Ultimate, feel free to email security@ultimatesoftware.com .

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