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Your day at NTT DATAThe Senior Manager, Development Engineering is a senior management role, responsible for managing the operational objectives of their assigned team(s) related to the research and development of new digital products/services and/or technologies and improving on existing digital products/services and/or technologies. This role ensures the compliance to policies, processes, and procedures for their assigned team(s) by managing and continuously improving the productivity, quality and overall performance and output of their team(s).
This is a people management role, responsible for the day-to-day operations of their team(s) whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.
Key responsibilities:- Participates in hands-on software development activities as needed, contributing to the development of critical features and modules.
- Organises, delegates, and oversees all development engineering tasks and deliverables.
- Allocates resources effectively to support development projects and optimize team productivity.
- Implements and oversees quality assurance processes, including code reviews, testing, and debugging.
- Ensures the implementation of Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, to enhance development efficiency and flexibility.
- Keeps abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and operations, to ensure seamless integration of IT solutions.
- Identifies and manages potential risks and challenges in development projects and proactively implements risk mitigation strategies.
- Escalates any potential risks and challenges and risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
- Champions a culture of continuous improvement within the development team, encouraging feedback, and implements process enhancements.
- Verifies software development solutions/results with potential consumers and collaboratively decide on the best option/approach.
- Communicates and collaborates with relevant stakeholders, including relevant vendors as required.
- Participates in relevant technical decision making and solution development.
- Manages the maintenance and creation of all technical documentation as well as project roadmaps.
- Recommends project and programme budgets related to any development engineering activities.
- Provides technical expertise for products in development, new or improvement of existing.
- Reviews the research that others have done and what outcomes they have achieved to inform decision making process to decide direction to take.
- Understands markets, trends, and market analysis to appropriately decide what research needs to be developed.
- Manages innovation and development through strong technical market awareness.
- Inspires team members to perform at their best by recognizing their contributions, providing support, and fostering a positive work environment.
- Supports the growth and development of team members through coaching, mentoring, and provide opportunities for learning and skill enhancement.
To thrive in this role, you need to have:- Possesses extended communication with excellent decision-making abilities.
- Ability to provide leadership and management of technical personnel, delegating work assignments, matching responsibility to the person and giving authority to work independently.
- Ability to facilitate presentation of technical and complex matters to a diverse audience.
- Ability to analyze data and produce reports on issues and recommend resolutions.
- Ability to evaluate risks, priorities and business benefits, leveraging strong business knowledge.
- Ability to coordinate team activities and operationally plan and manage deliverables.
- Solid attention to detail with the ability to work independently.
- Ability to multi-task, set priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability to keep current with trends, client insights, and competitive strategies.
- Required significant independent, analytical and creative work efforts regarding procedures, planning and follow-up.
- Extended understanding of markets, trends and market analysis to appropriately decide what research needs to be developed.
- Extended knowledge of Agile development practices and principles.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving IT industry.
- Extended knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, and technologies.
- Extended proficiency in various programming languages and software development frameworks.
Academic qualifications and certifications:- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Management or Business Administration or related field.
- Relevant project management/agile certifications (for example, PMP, CSM, PSPO, POPM) are advantageous.
Required experience:- Extended demonstrated experience building, managing and leading high performance software development, engineering and/or architecture teams.
- Extended demonstrated experience of delivering large software projects, utilizing Agile methodology.
- Extended demonstrated experience in new product introduction, reworking design changes and upgrades through to production.
- Extended experience of IT in a complex business environment with the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms.
- Extended demonstrated experience in coaching and training facilitation.
- Proven working experience in a large-scale organization.
- Extended demonstrated experience of negotiation or management of vendors and third-party service providers.
- Proven track record in accomplishing individual and team goals.
- Extended demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Workplace type:
Remote Working
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