Manager, Software Development

100% onsite, must be local to NJ and under 60 mins

Need valid LinkedIn

70% Management / 30% Hands-On’

Independent candidates only

Possible final interview onsite

The primary responsibilities of the Manager, Software Development include designing, testing, deploying and supporting the company’s software applications for both internal and external clients. In addition, the Manager is expected to meet with business owners and translate business requirements into functional requirements and lead the team of software engineers through each sprint towards each release. It is expected the Manager, Software Development will effectively collaborate with other engineers, perform quality assurance, project management, and aim to deliver high quality software in a fast-paced environment.

Job Scope And Major Responsibilities

• Meets with business owners and other stakeholders to understand requirements and time sensitive deliverables.
• Leads the Software Development team, mentoring the developers and managing all aspects of the software development, solutioning, and architecture.
• Analyzes the requirements and propose solutions, determine feasibility, and create functional specs.
• Develops software solutions personally and/or leads other team members with their development. Ensures that corporate standards are being followed.
• Acts as a steward of the system, comes up with new solutions to make code more modern, resilient, and efficient.
• Confers with users; studies systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigates problem areas; follows the software development lifecycle.
• Performs code reviews to make sure other developers are following proper procedures, code standards, efficiency, and limits the introduction of risk.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating the requirements, analysis, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of software development by writing clear code that is self-documenting and easy for other developers to understand.
• Updates job knowledge by studying newer development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participates in educational opportunities; reads professional publications; maintains personal networks; participates in professional organizations.
• Adheres at all times to physical, administrative and technical safeguards related to core business when executing job functions.
• Complies with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations, as amended (“HIPAA”)
  
  

Performance Criteria

This role is evaluated by the leadership skills of the individual, along with the accuracy and effectiveness of the relevant authored code and implemented solutions by the team overall. Additionally, the successful candidate will demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to work well with many different stakeholders including upper management. Achieving performance targets for code resiliency and defect rate for the team is critical for assessing this role’s performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or heavily relevant job experience.
• Management experience in leading teams and directly managing other employees.
• Skilled at communicating and collaborating with other members of development teams.
• 7 years of hands-on software development experience with a good mastering of object-oriented design and programming.
• 7 years of experience in Microsoft .Net, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI. Experience in other technology stacks is a plus.
• 5 years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server including T-SQL, data modeling, concurrency control and transaction, and performance tuning.
• 5 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery. Experience in AngularJS, AngularJS2, KnockoutJS or ReactJS is a plus.
• Experience with modern software design architectures such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), micro-services, API-centric design.
• Experience in unit testing, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).
• Experience with Azure or other cloud computing solutions is a plus.
• Experience in pharmacy, healthcare, HIPAA/HITRUST and security is a plus.