Western Governors University - Salt Lake City, UT
posted 2 months ago
If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The Software Engineering Manager will provide technical leadership, vision, direction, and mentoring for the software engineering team. This individual will manage a team of personnel who design, develop, and support applications to meet business requirements. The Software Engineering Manager will deliver product and feature roadmaps and provide overall leadership and day-to-day management for a team of software development professionals. Additionally, they will provide resource planning and project scheduling using Agile/Scrum software development methodologies. Essential Functions and Responsibilities include managing the activities of developers to consistently deliver quality solutions on-time, within budget, and scope. The manager will work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements, actively driving the development life cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support. They will develop project plans, resource planning, scheduling, and manage development timelines while building and managing multi-disciplined software teams and overseeing the development processes using industry best practices. The role also involves conducting design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring the software development team, supporting a change management process to manage software releases, application patching, and changes to production configurations. The manager will oversee department expenses and budget planning, performing other related duties as assigned.