
Software Development Manager
- Rock Springs, WY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Engage as trusted advisor with client leadership team, demonstrating responsiveness to priorities while also providing actionable strategies and recommendations to solve challenges, improve processes, and achieve client goals
- Serve as main Point of Contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes, enhancing awareness of work in progress, and promoting collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts
- Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change
- Promote development team and program actions to mature the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice in place to include but not limited to the following:
- Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties if on leave
- Maintain weekly communication with the client's Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group
- Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput
- Promote a strategy with tactical steps that can be implemented and monitored leading to improved code quality practices, automation testing, test-driven development, shifting of security to the left, and requirements traceability
- Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered. Selected candidate will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public trust prior to start.
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of Direct Management Experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft suite of tools
- Ability to think quickly, act swiftly, and adapt
- Comfortable tasking peers, briefing senior leadership and briefing groups of people
- Experience with creating and delivering formal contract deliverables from start to finish while brokering input across the program from capability SMEs
- Experience with managing Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance engineers while ensuring they are complying with program processes and norms.
- Experience working in a scaled Agile environment
- Agile Certifications/Trainings
- Experience developing dashboards with PowerBI
- Previous experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or practicing the role and responsibilities as laid out by SAFe
- Development experience a plus: Java, XBRL, HTML, API Development, JSON and/or REST services
- Application Modernization experience. Have helped to transform a monolithic application to microservice architecture
- Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift platform
- Experience managing IT/Software projects at a financial agency
- Consulting or Systems Integration experience to a federal department or agency in support of a high visibility system/application
- SAFe Certifications/Trainings
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