Manager, Platform Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with technical product management and key business stakeholders to guide technology direction, facilitate critical technical decisions, and deliver products.

• Engage with engineering teams and enterprise architecture; work together on integration initiatives, best practices, and the adoption of new technologies.

• Commit to roadmaps that outline capabilities and timelines, while assessing and integrating new products and technologies.

• Ensure technology alignment with business strategy and proactively lead technical direction across the organization.

• Embrace Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies and establish a regular release rhythm.

• Oversee multiple teams of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and DevOps professionals, including both full-time and contract resources.

• Directly manage five or more full-time employees or contractors.

• Conduct interviews, hire, train, assign tasks, oversee, evaluate, reward, and discipline employees; address concerns and resolve issues.

• Lead and mentor engineering team members.

• Provide thought leadership focused on innovation and share insights on product development, engineering, and development processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field AND three (3) years of demonstrated experience in software engineering leadership roles, with a strong execution track record in the complete lifecycle of product development, OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and cultivate the next generation of leaders.

• Capability to build trusting and meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions, manage conflicts, negotiate, and present effectively.

• Strong commitment to customer satisfaction.

• Ability to identify and foster innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions.

• High standards, results-oriented mindset, proactive approach, and commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and within budget.

• Leadership capabilities including coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development.

• Experience in software development and automation, including Agile methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps practices, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, and performance.

• Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, and auditing.

• Proficiency in service-oriented and microservice architectures for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services on AWS.

• Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices.

• Ability and eagerness to excel in a proactive, high-pressure environment.

• Competence to write clear technical specifications along with strong estimating and planning skills.

• Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns.

• Solid understanding of source control and its effective usage.

• Experience collaborating with offshore and distributed teams.

• Ability to pass a required background check.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.) and web applications.

• Willingness to travel 10% of the time.

• No certificates or licenses required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus.

• Health benefits provided.

• Retirement contributions available.

• Paid time off offered.

• This is a remote position.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities will be made.