Senior manager software engineering

Our Client operates in the Food Processing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 200 countries, providing employment to more than 3,00,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is to manufacture, market, distribute and sell consumer staple products.

Responsibilities:

• Create the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
• Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
• Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 3+ years’ experience managing developers with 1+ years of managing multiple managers/teams
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Working knowledge of programming languages - Java and JavaScript
• Working knowledge of Backend and Frontend Frameworks – Spring/Spring Boot/React/React Native and NodeJS ecosystem
• Drive Best Practices of Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Architecture Reviews
• Metrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLC
• Experience with Azure (preferred), Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Working knowledge of Cloud Native Development including concepts of Message Queues, Distributed Caching, Load Balancing, RDBMS, NoSQL, Key value stores, REST API’S, etc.
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns, architecture patterns