Software Engineering Manager at Digital Gaming Corporation (DGC)

Purpose:

• The Software Engineering Manager will be part of an agile development team, building and working on enterprise grade software systems on top of the Microsoft .NET development stack. The Software Engineering Manager will provide technical and team leadership through coaching and mentorship.

Duties include, but not limited to:

Reporting to the Head of Technology Operations. The duties and responsibilities of the Software Engineering Manager include:

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts, product owners and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and cloud-based business applications.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.
• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Ensure development standards and development SDLC are adhered to by the Development Team.
• Provide second-level support to business users.
• Continually research and evaluate software products for use and application across the business.

Essential Criteria:

• At least 2-3 years’ experience of managing Software Development Teams and /or leads.
• At least 6 - 10 years in a technical role within the IT Software Development industry.
• Demonstrated experience on project delivery.
• Ability to generate Management reports that can guide business in strategic decisions making and provide insight on delivery.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise grade software, with web development technologies including ASP.NET, MVC3, JavaScript and CSS
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment
• environments
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development
• techniques and theories
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.

Person Specifications:

• Problem Solving
• Interpersonal Skills
• Resilience
• Adaptability
• Priority Setting
• Time Management
• Thinking Skills
• Customer Focus
• Management, Motivation & Leadership
• Business Acumen
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Building Relationships
• Organization & Planning
• Stress Tolerance
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Accountability And Execution