Software Leader Job Description
Software leader
provides assistance to federal agencies in tailoring agile techniques, concepts and approaches including Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, Lean, or other suitable agile approaches.
Software Leader Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Define, design and develop new software features in a low latency Linux OS environment
Define the operating structure, processes, procedures and talent profiles required to build a world class team
Develop automated strategy & solutions to address potential problems before they result in a service interruption
Build a customer obsessed culture that focuses on customer success as its primary goal
Partner with business and IT leaders to design for security, reliability and operational excellence across the technologies suite of tools and resources
Lead a team of systems, network, security, application, and automation engineers responsible for wing to wing delivery of IT services and platforms depended upon by a global Software Business
Manage performance, coach team members, and resources team appropriately to deliver on objectives while driving a culture of excellence
Establish and enable a proactive, outcomes-oriented culture of accountability and partnership within the teams where ‘not my job’ is not an answer
Provide leadership and hands-on technical direction to deliver problem, solution, tactical, and break-fix capability
Oversee and provide leadership direction during operational incidents, ensuring necessary resourcing and availability of subject matter expertise proactive, business communications
Software Leader Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Software Leader
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: DBSO, DBS, PMP, DHR, ISTQB, CCIE, CISSP, AWS, SSIL2, II
Education for Software Leader
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the software leader job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Science, Technical, Technology, Education, Business
Skills for Software Leader
Desired skills for software leader include:
Continuous integration & delivery
Lean/agile development methodologies like Scrum/Kanban and DevOps
Release management
ASP.NET
Ability to position these with executives and key partners
Automotive
Avionics are an asset
Back up
C#
CI techniques
Desired experience for software leader includes:
Knowledge of the Federal Government industry and clients, and a proven track record of successful software sales experience with major clients
Experience and proven track record
Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting application security programs within an enterprise, software security program management, education and awareness for development staff, metrics
Strong expertise with secure software development lifecycles or maturity models, such as Microsoft SDL, OpenSAMM, BSIMM
Strong preference will be given to candidates with direct experience in software development languages (.NET, Java, ), candidates with direct experience implementing or managing enterprise static and dynamic code analysis tools
Working knowledge of relevant financial industry cyber security regulations, standards, and controls frameworks, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FFIEC, PCI-DSS, as they relate to software / application security
Software Leader Examples
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Software Leader Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a software leader. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for software leader
- Manage performance and availability, while adhering to compliance and regulatory requirements
- Deliver change and incident management to drive industry leading operational excellence
- Drive successful business outcomes beyond the immediate incident or need
- Comply with an actively enhance the effectiveness of ISO27001 and 9001 frameworks
- Own the DevOps strategy for the business
- Own and manage the Software Development & Delivery Tools & Application strategy in partnership with senior leaders from the software development & delivery functions
- Prioritizes projects based on an assessment of competitive needs
- Develop automated strategy and solutions to address potential problems before they result in a service interruption
- Provide incident leadership includes on-call duty, as required
- Own and manage the Software Development and delivery tools
Qualifications for software leader
- 5 years of experience with software business models
- Develop application strategy in partnership with senior leaders from the software, development and delivery functions
- Own architecture and design of converged IP contact center and voice self-service solutions (application and infrastructure)
- Develop and maintain relationships with targeted individuals in selected Regions with Cisco, Nuance and related Contact Center technology vendor or service providers
- Create, analyze, and troubleshoot IVR call flows and its role in a complex multi-component environment through visualization and orchestration
- Lead, design and develop solutions for contact center ACD deployed in multi-side environment in Avaya and Cisco technologies
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a software leader. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for software leader
- Demonstrate strong passion and capabilities in innovation and advancement in Contact Center technologies and concepts
- Establish strong working relationships with partners in operations and business to achieve success in Business Operations for Commercial Products (ex
- Establish a new state-of-the-art open, Agile software culture including environment, processes and tools
- Build a diverse talent base of software oriented professionals with a broad set of skills
- Create a talent pipeline to recruit top software prospects from local Universities and globally as required
- Innovate through interactions with customers, business leaders, innovation hubs and software vendors
- Deliver software offerings that drive business results and growth
- Be responsible for four main areas on a global basis
- Work closely with Region Sales teams to drive sales of Operational Excellence software
- Applies knowledge of organizational and management skills to build, maintain and coordinate a highly technical development group producing industry leading products in a global market
Qualifications for software leader
- Bachelor's degree in a business (finance, marketing, economics, ) or technical (engineering, physics, ) discipline
- At least 8 years of experience in Contact Center technologies
- 2+ years of experience in deploying cloud based Contact Center solutions
- 5 plus years in Software Sales
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with software license pricing, or pricing market intelligence activities
- Min 7 years in power generation industry, including combined cycle plant operation
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a software leader. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for software leader
- Responsible for the patent and legal activity regarding intellectual property creation
- Remains abreast of technical trends in the industry that could impact product performance, size, cost and quality
- Monitoring, Controlling and consolidating the software development work-package
- Create and lead standard customer communication of software issues impacting software releases to the sales, service and Reliability Center of Excellence fleet teams
- Publish weekly top quality and reliability items and brief commercial talking points on new software issues
- Drive Product Management Quality Control Point approvals and deviations risk mitigation activities
- Provide timely communication of key decisions, associated risks and impact
- Provide commercial guidance for all software quality issues
- Drive engagement in customer reliability review content for commercial disposition
- Ensure all issue solutions are applied to new production and releases through project control points
Qualifications for software leader
- Demonstrated skills in engaging, negotiating, and managing stakeholders for delivery of services with timescales and quality required
- Min 7 years in plant/fleet operations, plant system design, and/or fleet support roles
- Prior experience supporting the Agile development process – especially as it concerns sprint planning, standups, release planning
- Excellent verbal and written skills excellent organizational skills
- Execute and own the baseline architecture and design activities collaborating with Sr
- Manage a team of architects including – team development, work assignment, mentoring, annual performance reviews
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Our company is looking to fill the role of software leader. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for software leader
- Create, deploy, and lead plan to sustain required quality certifications, ISO 9001, SSAE-16
- Manage proposal risk in regards to unique quality requirements, reliability commitments, and partnership quality including approvals
- Ensure proper P&L training on quality procedures such as Stop Ship, PPAP, FAI
- Act as a consultant for new product kick-offs
- Assist teams in working through a product development thought process instead of project focused
- Work with the Product Owners, providing a check and balance between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency
- Responsible for the specification, design, development, and testing of SCADA, Manufacturing Intelligence, and MES applications
- Provides software teams with insight into new functionality
- Bring in Research & Development Leadership - Continuously inspire and develop your team of engineers
- Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and resiliency
Qualifications for software leader
- Working knowledge of Java with object-oriented design concepts and techniques required
- Knowledge and experience in leading teams is preferred
- Knowledge and experience with all phases of the full software development lifecycle is required
- Experience with software configuration control is preferred
- Requires a minimum of eight years of embedded software functional management experience
- Experience in firmware, embedded software, or software based product development
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of software leader. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for software leader
- Play a key role in architectural and strategic decisions to develop best in class software
- Recruit and retain high quality talent
- Full accountability for team commitment and successful delivery
- Quality guard for all work done by scrum teams
- Driver of all improvement actions within team
- Provide technical leadership to teams on a highly scalable distributed (or cloud-based) solution
- Architect stable, efficient, and scalable test equipment architectures upon which world-class embedded and application software can be built
- Integrate into the cross-functional product development design teams to drive product specs that ensure strong Design for Test solutions that adhere to manufacturing quality best practices
- Develop processes to ensure the design of maintainable, elegant, and lasting solutions to meet a wide variety of requirements and feature sets
- Drive continual improvement to Lutron standards for equipment safety, maintainability and flexibility
Qualifications for software leader
- Experience in leading complete product life-cycle of at least 2 projects (minimum of 2 years’ experience)
- Experience in developing software using model based development tools like Matlab / Simulink, Control Build
- Good Working level Knowledge of network protocols like MVB, Ethernet, CAN, RS232, RS 485
- Managing work packages for sub-contractors
- University degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or appropriate graduation)
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Software Project Management