Senior Manager, Platform Development

Stride, Inc.•US - MI - Remote, MI

5d•$113,074 - $165,000•Remote

About The Position

Sr Manager of Platform Development, partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Sr Manager will oversee a platform engineering team(s) building on our Learning Management Platform and related shared services where our full-time students go to school every day.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND Six (6) years’ proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR An equivalent combination of education and experience
Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders
Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations
Full commitment to customer satisfaction
Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions
Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget
Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development
Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance
Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing
Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS
Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment
Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills
Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns
Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively
Experience working with offshore and distributed teams
Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
Ability to travel 5% of the time
Ability to clear required background check

Nice To Haves

Five (5) years working on and/or leading Agile teams
Five (5) years of broad knowledge of Java
Three (3) years experience with Angular
Two (2) years of experience with AWS
One (1) year of experience building Progress Web Apps (PWA)
One (1) year of experience with Polymer or Stencil
Experience with the following: Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, MyBatis, Hibernate, ActiveMQ, Angular, Backbone, ExtJS, Ionic, Oracle, Postgres, Neo4j, NodeJs, React, Python, MongoDB and Redis

Responsibilities

Partner with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products;
Interface with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies;
Commit to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction;
Align technology to business strategy, and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization;
Adopt a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institute a frequent release cadence;
Manage a team consisting of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers. Oversee both fulltime and contract resources;
Lead and mentor engineering team members;
Have an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provide thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.