Sr. Technical Manager

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• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC

• Health and wellness events

• Work environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools

• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance

• Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility

• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships

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The job details are as follows:

The manager is responsible for the Enterprise Shared Services group including scheduling staff tasks, performance reviews and budgeting. The manager is responsible for technical decisions during software development. Objective: efficiently utilize senior development staff based on corporate priorities, risk, and return on investment.

The manager works with other organizations within OCLC to implement infrastructure (middle-level) software components that are shared between products and organizations. Included in this responsibility are project planning including scheduling and budgeting. Objective: Identify and provide common shared software components which lower overall development expense and provide better-integrated shared services to internal users (OCLC developers) and our members.

Major Responsibilities:

• Manage technical staff including: planning, organizing, training, directing, motivating, evaluating, and controlling. Performing all administrative duties necessary for ongoing
• support of group's activities including budgeting, staff selection, staff performance evaluation, progress and time reporting, and other administrative functions as needed.
• Provide technical direction, guidance and mentoring to the staff members.
• Serve as lead architect for Enterprise Shared Services. Work with other development organizations at OCLC, build and document consensus on software architecture technology and direction. Report to the Enterprise Architecture Team as necessary.
• Oversee acquisition or development of shared components necessary to integrate existing products and services (both online and administrative) as well as new products and services.
• Serve as project manager for architecture or shared components related projects. Identify key software components that can be shared enterprise wide.
• Serve as technical consultant for senior management, technical staff, product and project
• managers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering discipline
• Requires 5+ years experience in managing and architecting infrastructure software components
• 5+ years of previous project management experience required including management experience of senior developers and architects.
• Broad exposure to a variety of computer concepts, machine architecture, analysis and design approaches.
• Very good verbal and written communication skills including abilities to build consensus across organizational boundaries.
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies such as XP, Scrum, and/or DSDM
• Experience in operational management of production systems

Desired Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Budgeting and Financial Planning experience at the group level
• Project Management Certification
• Experience deploying enterprise application integration technologies
• Experience deploying web services in a service oriented architecture

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.