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About the job

As a Manager, Software Development, you will be responsible for a team of engineers working in the SAS Foundation Division within the Runtimes department.  You will work with other managers and technical leads to manage software development work in a highly collaborative organization. You will use SAS product knowledge and software construction expertise to ensure project work you oversee is completed to a high standard of quality and with innovative coding solutions. You will be responsible for scoping, scheduling, and overseeing work projects up to medium complexity.

As a Software Development Manager, you will:

• Be responsible for day-to-day team operations and priorities.
• Handle management responsibilities for the team including hiring, training, delegating work assignments, reviewing performance, and giving feedback.
• Understand the career objectives of your team members and support them on their journey to achieve them
• Work with product management and customers to understand requirements.
• Work with developers to scope and refine planned work then break down stories into more granular tasks for scheduling.
• Collaborate with other technical managers to ensure quality and consistency among software components and products.
• Manage and prioritize development projects and regularly communicate project status with upper management.
• Ensure R&D standards and guidelines are followed per established criteria, including adoption of the appropriate technology and architecture standards.
• Drive a continuous improvement culture and push for innovations and process improvements that accelerate team productivity.
• Remain apprised of state of the art and emerging technologies and seek out opportunities to leverage them in our products and processes.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

What we’re looking for:

• You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of related programming or testing experience.
• Practical experience with more than one programming language (SAS, C/C++, SQL, Java, Go).
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• A strong understanding of how Agile SDLC practices enable a successful team
• Experience leading development and delivery at the enterprise system level.
• Experience using SAS products (preferred, not required)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency with all aspects of the software development/testing lifecycle.
• A strong work ethic.
• The ability to learn quickly, operate comfortably, and make decisions within a complex environment with incomplete information.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, organizational, managerial, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to build consensus across cross-functional teams and encourage knowledge-sharing within the team.
• Strong decision-making abilities.
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration

You are welcome here.

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