Software Engineering Manager

$135,200 - $157,700/Yr

Unclassified - Binghamton, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Binghamton, NY

10,001+ employees

About the position

Welcome to CAE! We are excited to become a part of your professional journey and to help you discover a career that aligns with your values, experience, expertise, and aspirations! As a leader in the defense and security industry, CAE's team is passionate about simulation and training and developing the most sophisticated solutions to help our defense and security customers prepare for mission success. With our people at the very heart of our organization, driving innovation and new technologies, we are committed to providing a work environment for employees in which they can thrive and one that values professional growth, teamwork, and engagement. We are seeking an ambitious software engineering professional to join our leadership team. This position is a dual-role position requiring the successful candidate to perform functional management activities as well as technical program tasking. It is expected that the functional management role will comprise 10% to 20% of the candidate's time and the remaining 80-90% technical responsibilities. The successful candidate will be responsible to coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance. This position will be responsible for personnel management of a software team to include performance assessment, career development guidance, program assignments, merit and salary actions, training plans, staffing and recruiting. This role is for a leader who is self-motivated and demonstrates a positive approach, strong work ethic, and ownership for their work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with other program leads to ensure program completes successfully.
• Work in a team environment, throughout the lifecycle of the program, using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies.
• Develop software products within all phases of the software lifecycle.
• Provide guidance to the project team and ensure project goals are achieved.
• Ensure program plans are followed and artifacts needed are created for each phase of the delivery cycle.
• Actively mentor intermediate and junior engineers.
• Understand overall knowledge of the software activities for the project.
• Experience with task/resource planning, development of BOEs, IMP and IMS planning.
• Promote a productive, engaging and rewarding work environment where employees can contribute, grow & thrive.
• Collaborate with the senior manager to guide the entire team in applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle in support of programs.
• Support proposal generation and software process maintenance.
• Execute performance appraisals and career goal development.
• Participate in workload planning, staffing allocations, and hiring to ensure alignment to overall capability and capacity strategy of the team.
• Define team roles and responsibilities ensuring expectations are clear.
• Serve as a channel for company communications.
• Administer company policies and practices.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical field or equivalent education and work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years software development experience.
• Demonstrated success in prior leadership roles, with 3-5 years leadership experience.
• Experience supporting military or defense programs.
• Demonstrated programming experience in software languages - Ada, C/C++, FORTRAN, C#.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.
• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams.
• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.
• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
• Experience in an Agile/SAFe leadership role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, e.g.).
• Experience architecting, designing, modeling, implementing, integrating, and debugging OO C++ software running on Real-Time Operating systems such as: VxWorks, Integrity, AND/OR Real Time Embedded Linux.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).
• Experience leading a team of 12 employees with a record of on-time performance.
• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.
• Proven ability recruiting top talent.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
• Flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!