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SAS is a global leader in business analytics, offering hundreds of products built on a unified platform. The Platform Services division plays a key role in the development of this foundational technology. If you're seeking a rewarding career and the chance to lead a team within this pivotal division, this is the opportunity for you.

About the Role:

This position is based at the SAS R&D Center in Pune. We are seeking a Manager to lead a newly formed development team within the Platform Services division. In this role, you will oversee the management and prioritization of software development projects, coordinate related testing activities, and allocate resources to meet departmental, divisional, and corporate goals.

You will play a key role in developing, promoting, and implementing innovative solutions and industry best practices to support software quality initiatives and drive company success. The role also involves strategic planning, staffing, team leadership, motivation, and stakeholder engagement.

Requirements

• Should have at least 12 years of relevant experience in software development projects along with at least 2 years of experience in people management or leading the team.
• Need to have excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively with all the other teams in other divisions like tech support teams.
• Strong software design, and development skills with ability to mentor team members.
• Experience with Go-lang, Java, RESTful web services, Postgres, CI/CD Tools
• Experience in cloud development using Docker, Kubernetes on with cloud providers like Azure, AWS, GCP
• Good experience of converting Product Management requirements to technical requirements, and evaluating alternate approaches for feasibility, advising the stakeholders of comparative pros-cons.
• Need to be energetic, enthusiastic and should be able to manage the changing priorities on an ongoing basis.
• Need to multitask effectively across new feature development and maintenance projects.
• Ability to assess the risks with respect to delivery pipeline/milestones and raise these immediately through appropriate channels to the higher management.
• Should be able to deal with moving targets, changing priorities, and uncertainties and be able to define clear and specific objectives for the team to achieve divisional goals.
• Good knowledge of AGILE methodology to help the team in performing Agile ceremonies.

Primary responsibilities

• Organizes, develops, prioritizes, and assigns resources to deliver high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines, while adhering to R&D best practices and processes.
• Defines objectives and responsibilities consistent with department, division, and corporate goals.
• Leads development project designs and enforces technical standards to ensure software product works correctly across various cloud providers and configurations.
• Proactively leads and solicits the involvement of other project stakeholders (e.g. managers, developers, user interface and visual designers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies functional requirements and is consistent with established R&D standards.
• Manages and leads project scoping and scheduling; tracks progress of individual tasks and alerts executive management and stakeholders of concerns meeting schedules, while following established R&D standards.
• Manages product quality standards by ensuring functional, unit and performance testing is comprehensive and thorough; works closely with development and testing teams to verify test plans.
• Maintains accountability for the entire life cycle of the code including support for both internal and external consumers.
• Ensures the veracity of design and technical documentation to satisfy both internal and external consumers.
• Contributes to product or project direction through collaboration with Product Management and feedback from tech support.
• Provides technical leadership as appropriate for projects and to the team through mentoring, training and managing the activities of the team.
• Manages all aspects of the department including teamwork, performance management, providing feedback, and staff professional growth through collaboration with SAS Human Resources, SAS Education and Executive Leadership.
• Communicates and represents departmental interests to staff, other departments, divisions, and various management levels as necessary.
• Maintains an awareness of and researches new technologies, trends, architectures, and implementation techniques in support of efficient and effective testing related activities.
• Regularly communicates development and testing status, project risks, resource requirements and allocation, and other relevant knowledge with upper management.
• Coordinates and prioritizes testing of new software under development and of production software in the field.
• Coordinates the creation and implementation of quality standards and testing processes for products through the development of test plans, test harnesses, reference documents, and other instruments.
• Analyzes test results and testing tasks in accordance with test plans.
• Advocates for the adoption of best practices and continuous improvement throughout the software lifecycle.
• Becomes actively involved in daily operations and duties as needed to meet schedules or to resolve complex problems or issues.
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Additional responsibilities

• Responsible for tactical management of a functional area, feature, product, or multiple products or solutions.
• May collaborate with product marketing, management, and others to refine product/project direction.
• Involves senior management as required in major decisions.
• Administers and executes policies and procedures that typically affect individual employees or a team.
• Functions as an advisor to employees regarding daily tasks, projects, and immediate operations.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

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