5+ years of hands-on coding experience, preferably in .NET
3+ years of managing large, complex projects
2+ years of experience leading technical teams
2+ years of full lifecycle development experience using Agile methods
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software development team
Maximize resource capability and capacity to deliver quality solutions
Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities
Manage and report on operational metrics and project statuses
Make timely decisions to balance current and future objectives
Lead change initiatives to enhance engineering processes
Ensure resources are skilled in modern programming languages and methodologies
Establish and manage financial budgets for projects
Participate in on-call schedule outside of business hours as needed
Benefits
Onsite position located in Overland Park, KS
Opportunity to lead and influence software engineering practices
Focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence
Access to cloud-based technologies and modern software architecture
Involvement in both project management and hands-on technical tasks
Full Job Description
Leads Netsmart's software engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions by driving technical excellence, continuous improvement, and effective execution across projects, processes, and product roadmaps.
This position is onsite in our Overland Park, KS office location.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to team of software development professionals.
Maximize the capability and capacity of resources to deliver high quality solutions on time and within scope.
Identify opportunities to practice and champion continuous improvement through projects, productivity assessments and other metric-driven insights.
Manage to, and report on operational metrics and status. This is including but not limited to queue churn, trending, resource utilization, risk assessment and mitigation, project initiatives, and department-related data elements.
Make timely and effective decisions to ensure the team continues to move forward while balancing current and future roadmap objectives
Lead change initiatives and develop strategies to support change in engineering processes and strategy
Accountable for resources' ability to improve knowledge and skills required for software development teams to advance and leverage the latest in programming languages, industry standards and software development methodologies.
Responsible for establishing and managing to financial budgets
This position may require availability outside of standard business hours as part of a rotational on-call schedule
Qualifications Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
At least 5 years of technical experience in software development
At least 5 years of experience hands on coding, .NET is preferred, open to Java, JS, etc.
At least 3 years of large, complex project management experience
At least 2 years of leading a team of technical staff
At least 2 years of experience with full lifecycle development and using Agile methods
Preferred
Experience designing, building and operating - secure, scalable and highly available web and mobile applications, large-scale distributed systems using service-oriented architecture and message queue architecture - in the cloud
Understanding of cloud-based SaaS architectures - involves designing elastic solutions, distributed state, availability, scalability, etc.
Adept in Object Oriented Design
Excellent analytical, design and troubleshooting skills
About Netsmart Technologies, Inc
Netsmart Technologies is an American company that develops and sells health information technology, including for electronic health records and health information exchanges, for organizations and entities in the behavioral health, human services, and post-acute care markets.
Netsmart was founded in 1992 although its technology origins go back to 1968 with the founding of Creative Socio-Medics, which it acquired in 1994. Netsmart has since grown via many other acquisitions. It is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
