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"What you’ll be doing…
You will be working with cutting edge technologies and will drive VBG Wireless applications to the next level in the journey towards our NorthStar architecture. You will champion and drive initiatives partnering with cross functional teams and leadership to define, priorities, execute, and track the KPIs. You will be driving innovation as a culture with the teams through various methods. You will work with cross functional development teams, QA, SRE & Architecture teams and vendors to drive programs to success and enable better user experience for our Verizon Business customers.
Engaging, influencing, and evangelising Software Development best practices with development, operations and product groups to align technology service/solution delivery.
Bolstering, developing, motivating and retaining a world-class team and being responsible for the overall direction, coordination and continuous evaluation of the team, while fostering individual career development and high morale
Encouraging the team to participate in experimentation, hackathons, coding events, and other organisation-wide events and efforts
Providing leadership on complex projects, mentoring the team with specific emphasis on development, architecture, systems analysis & design, and testing
Driving quality accountability within the organisation with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring actions are followed-up
Driving platform strategy planning and execution: Driving efforts to strategies, plan, and implement the short-term and long-term goals of building a robust, repeat-at-scale, and efficient model for the engineering platform. Including SRE, DevSecOps, Security, Stability, Scalability and Availability tools and processes in place.
Enabling automation and proactive monitoring to detect issues and communicate to business proactively. With technical strength, guide the team on architecture, design, and on-the-job challenges
Driving capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation and other non-functional systems requirements.
Working with both internal and external customers on a daily basis, and deliver customer and executive briefings on a variety of topics including status updates, technical issues/solutions, budget and schedule timelines. Program Management duties include leading cross functional teams through software development activities.
Developing resolutions to complex problems that require the frequent use of creativity, analysis of situations or data that requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Overseeing all aspects of the development & implementation of more than one large project and provide a single point of contact for those projects - original concept through final implementation.
Receiving broad guidance & is accountable for project or program results. Efficient vendor management by defining SMART goals, evaluating vendor performances, enabling greater vendor accountability and SOW executions.
Where you’ll be working…
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
You are curious about new technology and the possibilities it opens up. People count on you for your experience in all phases of the software development cycle. You build environments where teams thrive and feel valued, respected and supported. You enjoy the challenge of leading resources and opposing priorities in a multifaceted, complex and time conscious environment. Building effective working relationships with other managers across the organization comes naturally to you. You are able to create, lead, shape, and execute programs and initiatives to improve people skills, process optimization, and modern technology adoption to create higher value for the business.
You'll need to have:
Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
Six or more years of relevant work experience in software development
Experience in software development in a managerial role
Experience in managing large-scale core development projects from scratch, and handling requirements, design, and deliveries.
Experience in driving large scale programs / projects based of Java, Springboot Micro-services, MFE, Oracle, Cassandra nosql
Experience in the following technologies –Java Springboot, React, NewRelic, Kibana, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, databases (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle), AWS, K8S, SOE/SRE, DevSecOps tools.
Experience in Angular/ React
Experience in Agile (SAFe/Scrum) delivery management.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
Experience in Assisted / Wireless Telecom Systems
Experience in Retail / eCommerce domain
Good analytical and data-driven decision-making skill: a strong affinity to use data to generate insights and reports for improving platform performance and resilience.
Certifications, industry recognition, patents, and published papers.
Ability to solve complex problems with creative solutions that enhance the user/employee experience and doing so under time pressures
Project management certification (e.g., PMP, ACP).
Strong people leader and a mentor, and maintains a very high level of engagement with the team members.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.
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