Software Engineer Manager - AIA

BST Global - Tampa, FL

Full-time - Manager

Remote - Tampa, FL

About the position

The Software Engineering Manager will lead and evolve our engineering discipline within the Artificial Intelligence & Analytics (AI+A) team. You will leverage your expertise, experience, and passion to create and foster a high-performing team that delivers quality and excellence to our clients. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation, extensive development experience in designing, developing, and implementing high-performing, scalable Big Data solutions built on Azure. With an authentic leadership style, you will be able to advance a culture of innovation, professional development, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Plan and establish goals, objectives, and strategies to improve teams engineering delivery excellence
• Establish, document and train on methodology and best practices
• In cooperation with the Director of Engineering, implement, evolve and enforce team processes, procedures, and standards to drive and establish repeatable, reliable delivery of best-in-class solutions
• Develop operational metrics and reporting frameworks to drive operational execution, transparency and efficiency
• Deep understanding of mature engineering practices with a focus on continuous improvement
• Evangelize, support, and embody BST's Company Mission, Strategy and Value
• Foster a culture of accountability and commitment and own outcomes for personal and team activities
• Provide hands-on technical oversight on project initiatives to promote, influence, and guide delivery excellence
• Ensure solutions are architecturally sound, performant, scalable, and maintainable
• Continuously assess, prioritize and advocate for the reduction of technical debt
• Coordinate with the Technical Lead on organizing, planning and executing the teamwork
• Responsible for supervising, monitoring, coaching, growing, disciplining and appraising individual performance
• Adjust the recruiting process as needed to identify, attract and hire highly skilled, qualified candidates
• Frequently monitor individual and team results to identify and proactively communicate development opportunities
• Monitor and enforce compliance of all Company and Group policies and procedures
• In collaboration with the Director of Engineering and Product Directors, identify, interview and hire the appropriate staff needed for the team
• Develop the appropriate goals and objectives for individual staff, and measure the results in a quarterly appraisal process
• Develop a training plan that supports the goals and objectives for the team in collaboration with the corporate training function
• Provide career counseling and feedback to staff and team as appropriate
• Review and approve weekly timesheets and PTO requests for the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant management experience leading teams of 7+ engineers across multiple technical disciplines
• 8+ years as a software engineer with 3+ years building solutions on Azure and AWS platforms
• Prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS based applications preferred
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field
• Experience working within established development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, or Kanban, adhering to structured processes for requirements gathering, planning, development, testing, and deployment

Nice-to-haves

• Azure Data Engineer certification desired