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Manager, Platform Development

Stride, Inc.
  • Richmond, Virginia
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    Job Description
    Manager of Platform Development partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Manager will oversee the platform engineering teams responsible for our Curriculum Experience where our full-time students in K to 12 go to school every day.
    Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
    • Partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products.
    • Interfaces with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies.
    • Commits to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction
    • Aligns technology to business strategy, and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization
    • Adopts a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institutes a frequent release cadence.
    • Manages multiple team(s) consisting of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and DevOps. Oversees both fulltime and contract resources.
    • Leads and mentors engineering team members
    • Have an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provide thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.

    Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 5 or more Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

    Minimum Required Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND
    • Three (3) years' proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND
    • Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR
    • An equivalent combination of education and experience

    Certificates and Licenses: None Required

    OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
    • Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders
    • Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations
    • Full commitment to customer satisfaction
    • Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions
    • Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget
    • Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development
    • Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance
    • Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing
    • Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS
    • Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
    • Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment
    • Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills
    • Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns
    • Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively
    • Experience working with offshore and distributed teams
    • Ability to pass a required background check
    • Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
    • Ability to travel 10% of the time
    • Ability to clear required background check

    Compensation & Benefits:Stride, Inc. considers a person's education,

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRichmond, Virginia

    Skills

    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Application Integrationunmatched
    • Architectural Designunmatched
    • Auditingunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Background Investigationunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Budgetingunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Cadenceunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
    • Computer Scienceunmatched
    • Conflict Resolutionunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
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    • Customer Satisfactionunmatched
    • Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • DevOpsunmatched
    • Enterprise Architectureunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Microsoft Excelunmatched
    • Microsoft Officeunmatched
    • Microsoft Outlookunmatched
    • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
    • Microsoft Visiounmatched
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    • Middleware Architecture Designunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • Object Oriented Design (OOD)unmatched
    • Offshoringunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Product Developmentunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Product Lifecycleunmatched
    • Product Managementunmatched
    • Product Positioningunmatched
    • Product Testingunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Software Designunmatched
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    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Software Testingunmatched
    • Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
    • Team Buildingunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Technical Strategyunmatched
    • Technology Analysisunmatched
    • Test Automationunmatched
    • Thought Leadershipunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Training/Teaching Curriculumunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
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