Software Development Leader

As aSoftware Development Leaderat DMSi, you are part of the leadership team working to shape the culture of our development organization and will help our cross-functional teams create solutions that are meaningful to our customers and our business. The ideal candidate sees the vision of how a team comes together and uses agile/lean practices to create products that exceed a customer's expectations and strengthens the foundation of that product based on the engineering and architecture experiences they have.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

Leadership

• Lead one to three cross-functional software development teams to create solutions in alignment with product vision, iteratively and incrementally.
• Serve as a member of the Development Leadership team to create strategies and plan improvements to aid in evolving the Development organization.

Team Practices and Collaboration

• Promote collaboration between the development teams and the Product Management, Technical Engineering, Architecture, and Support teams.
• Ensure all agile activities are in place for their teams.
• Create focus and enablement for the development teams by anticipating and removing impediments, protecting teams' time to guard the ability to deliver, and driving practices to manage scope.

Technical Excellence

• Apply judgment to incorporate key technical concerns effectively into product development including security, instrumentation, quality and monitoring, and technical debt.
• Identify, activate, and facilitate technical solutions for novel challenges in coordination with architecture.

Delivery

• Guide development of delivery forecasts that lead to predictability.
• Identify and develop meaningful metrics/measurements to support teams' ability to create success and continual improvement.
• Drive integration and delivery practices.

Mentoring

• Advocate and mentor best practices in product development, software engineering, and architecture.
• Attraction, selection, career development, and coaching for software delivery team members.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:Knowledge of Design Thinking, User-Centered Design, Product Discovery, and modern Product Management preferred.

Experience with developing Software as a Service.

Experience promoting and communicating change messages.

Demonstrated skills in coaching, mentoring, and conflict resolution.

Bilingual English and Spanish speaking a plus.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.

Five+ years of direct experience in agile/lean methodologies in a software development environment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:Normal office environment with the use of computers and telephone systems; no unusual physical demands.

Travel as needed