As a Development Manager, you will lead an engineering team in an agile environment building solutions. The key to the success of this position is having strong innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.
Directs the activity of team leaders within a group or a specific area within the engineering function. Manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. Defines objectives and work plans and determines modes of employing resources in order to attain objectives and meet schedules. Serves as a professional authority for subordinate employees with regard to problem-solving and schedule-meeting schedules.
This position is based at our Bangalore, India office.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes and investigates applications engineering tasks, and prepares design specifications, analysis and recommendations. Manager of a medium-size group/project.
- Provides innovative solutions to complex problems and communicates progress toward project/program goals.
- Oversees the delivery of products within budget, schedule and quality guidelines.
- Creates schedules and work plans. Can reach appropriate resolution in many varied situations.
- Develops and provides challenging yet appropriate assignments, evaluates work, communicates progress toward career development and goals.
- Interfaces with senior management to report on project and program milestones and to present project progress report
- Guide and mentor team members to deliver high quality design and code
- Lookout for latest server focused technology trends and standards
- Responsible for career development/planning, performance discussions of team members.
Experience and Required Skills:
- 10+ years of industry experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a project lead in building multi-tier cloud applications/platform using Java/J2EE, PostgreSQL and OO technologies
- Hands-on experience on using Java and related open source technologies for building enterprise class web applications
- Must be adept at experimenting with new technologies, start-up setup, quick prototyping and ability to define overall approach to drive project delivery
- Strong experience in dealing with performance, scalability, distributed caching, Web Services and open source technologies
- Experience with SaaS applications design, development, deployment and support in private/public cloud environment
- Working experience in an offshore product setup with distributed teams will be an added advantage
- Must have excellent communication (verbal written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills
- 3+ years of Project and people management experience using Agile/SCRUM methodologies
- Be process-compliant in performing assigned tasks and ensuring quality of project deliverables. Drive new process ideas in his/her work area
- Help build team and induction of new members. Own performance appraisal responsibilities for the team members under the guidance of supervisor/ People Success Team
- Ability to identify and successfully groom new leaders in technical area for handling higher level of responsibilities.
Preferred Skills:
- Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Bottomline business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
- Good understanding of web services and integrations.
Education
- BE or higher in computer science, engineering or relevant field