Immediate Opportunity - Software Engineering Manager Vaco is partnering with a top-notch company in the San Antonio/or Houston area to hire a passionate, enthusiastic, and inspired individual for the role of Software Engineering Manager.

MUST BE AVAILBABLE FOR ONSITE WORK IN EITHER SAN ANTONIO OR HOUSTON.
***No CORP/C2C/3rd Parties as this is a permanent role***

We are seeking a highly skilled individual that can combine technical oversight with team leadership and requires a proactive approach to managing both people and processes in a complex corporate environment.
Ovrview:

• Team Management: Lead and support a small team of senior engineers, fostering a collaborative environment.


• Internal Navigation: Work through organizational politics to ensure team effectiveness and project success.


• Hands-On Involvement: Engage directly with the team to understand challenges and promote best practices in software development.


• Collaboration with Technology: Work closely with technical teams to align business and technological goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads efforts from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically; leads medium complexity features from technical design through completion.


• Executes a defined software engineering roadmap, contributing to the organization's engineering and technology strategy.


• Performs coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process in projects with moderate to high complexity under limited or no supervision.


• Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.


• Conducts demos of application features and designs features to support automated testability. Conducts research, design and prototyping and experience on a cross-functional team.


• Works with users to translate designs and solution architecture into design specifications.


• Organizes the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions or deliverables, setting effort estimates and continuously collaborating and updating the specifications, in line with user requirements.


• Coordinates and implements new architectures, standards, methods and logic for enterprise software in accordance with business strategies and specifications.


• Ensures proper documentation of software design and works with business partners to design and implement solution to meet architecture standards


• Collaborate with stakeholders (i.e., business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, Scrum Masters, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.


• Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery.


• Participate in scope of work estimation and forecasting.


• Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and that technologies/systems are current.


• Coach and mentor software developers.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related/equivalent experience is required


• 5+ years of experience in application and software development is required.

• Strong understanding of software development design and Agile practices/methodologies is required


• Deep understanding and real-world experience of applying Object Oriented Programming & Design Patterns is required


• Deep understanding and real-world experience of procedural and functional programming is required


• Strong knowledge of .Net, C# or Java, Python, JavaScript, Blazor, ReactJS, Angular is required


• Strong knowledge of DBMS as well as TSQL or PL/SQL is preferred


• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices is required

• Strong Experience with development platforms (i.e., Azure, Salesforce, Docker, Kubernetes) is required


• Strong Experience with integration platforms (i.e., Azure, SSIS, Dell Boomi, SAP PI/PO) is preferred

• Experience in building service-oriented architectures and APIs for both internal and market facing products is preferred.

• Experience with message broker tools and frameworks like NServiceBus, Azure Service Bus, and RabbitMQ is preferred

Skills

• Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.


• Application Security - Refers to the measures and practices implemented to protect software applications from security threats and vulnerabilities.


• Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.


• Continuous Improvement - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale


• Debugging - The process of finding and resolving bugs within computer programs, software, or systems.


• DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.


• General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.


• Log Monitoring - Logging and monitoring are crucial aspects of software development that involve capturing and analyzing information about a software system's behavior, performance, and errors.


• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality software.


• Software Testing - An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test.


• Version Control System - Software tool that helps engineers and other collaborators manage changes to source code, documents, and other files over time

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