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Manager Software Development
Pearson
Morrisville, NC, United States
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Description
Pearson Education is seeking a highly motivated, passionate, driven, and experienced Software Development Manager with broad technical expertise, Agile practices history, extensive development experience and proven history managing teams of 8+ people. The Software Development Manager will manage a team of highly intelligent, productive, and skilled developers driving and contributing to Pearson’s Global API Platform.
The API Platform team is responsible for Designing and Operationalizing the Apigee Edge and Microservices strategy. Apigee currently operates at 1,000,000 trx/hour with load expected to grow and to expand to new regions. There is only one person currently supporting the users and this volume. In addition, this team has several 2017 commitments to support ePen2, GLP, Cardinal, CITE, OneCRM, Pulse, REVEL Globalization, the Content Platform and R&R. these platforms will adopt a microservices architecture in AWS and will require connectivity facilitated by an API Platform. This person will be responsible for managing the roadmap or dependencies across these initiatives.
Responsibilities
• Challenge the team to develop innovative products, technologies and processes that continuously push the envelope of Pearson’s rapid, reliable and repeatable attitude
• Be a positive leader, role model and mentor ensuring team members acquire necessary skills (technical and non-technical) and performance attributes, in line with business and personal development needs
• Identify and solve problems creatively with minimal guidance
• Manages personnel activities of software engineering staff including hiring, training, and yearly reviews
• Provide leadership and mentoring in creating a true DevOps, Agile, and Lean culture of professionalism, accountability, and delivery
• Serve as a liaison, development team representative and partner with internal customers including Product Managers, Project Managers, Engineers, and Systems Architects
• Provide oversight and guidance in the operational nuances that come with a department in a explosive growth phase
Qualifications
• Proven experience managing development teams of 8+ software engineers
• Experience leading, or working in, teams using Agile Software methodologies (Scrum/XP/Kanban/etc.)
• Immensely technical with the ability to communicate with developers and stakeholders in their languages
• Aptitude for mentoring and facilitating the change necessary to create self-organizing teams
• Deep commitment to learning and continuous improvement of development process
• Experience leading a culture change into an Agile and DevOps mindset
• Capable of self-direction that aligns with corporate and department vision
• Experience navigating large, complex projects, in a highly matrixed environment
• Working knowledge of technologies and concepts of API Platforms and Microservice Architectures
• Evangelize and promote API Platform strategies and progress to key Pearson stakeholders including senior leadership
• Foster alignment across many divisions of Pearson to promote cohesion and alignment in our Global API Platform strategy