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
