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SoftwareDevelopment Manager- Hybrid, Cary North Carolina

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About the job

As a Software Development Manager in the SAS Foundation Division’s Runtimes department, you will lead a team of engineers onaData Acceleration team, partnering with managers, technical leads, and strategic partners to deliver high-quality software that improves the performance, scalability, and security of SAS analytics.

You will oversee planning and execution for medium-complexity development projects, including SAS SpeedyStore, which enables faster, more cost-efficient table operations in SingleStore and expands robust data management capabilities for customer data. This role collaborates closely across Advanced Analytics, Visual Analytics, platform teams, andstrategicpartnerSingleStore to help keep Viya fast, reliable, and competitive for customers.

As a Software Development Manager, you will:

• Be responsible for day-to-day team operations and priorities.


• Handle management responsibilities for the team including hiring, training, delegating work assignments, reviewing performance, and giving feedback.


• Understand the career objectives of your team members and support them on their journey to achieve them


• Work with product management and customers to understand requirements.


• Work with developers to scope and refine planned work then break down stories into more granular tasks for scheduling.


• Collaborate with other technical managers to ensure quality and consistency among software components and products.


• Manage and prioritize development projects and regularly communicate project status with upper management.


• Ensure R&D standards and guidelines are followed per established criteria, including adoption of the appropriate technology and architecture standards.


• Drive a continuous improvement culture and push for innovations and process improvements that accelerate team productivity.


• Remain apprised of state of the art and emerging technologies and seek out opportunities to leverage them in our products and processes.


• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.


• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or a related discipline


• Requires a minimum of eight years of related programming or testing experience, including one year of project lead, supervisory or management experience.


• Practical experience with more than one programming language (SAS, C/C++, SQL, Java, Go).


• Experience working with databases


• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence


• A strong understanding of how Agile SDLC practices enable a successful team


• Experience leading development and delivery at the enterprise system level.


• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Leading Change - Driving organizational and cultural changes needed to achieve strategic objectives; catalyzing new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services; helping others overcome resistance to change.


• Strategic Planning - Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values.


• Inspiring Others - Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.


• Proficiencywith all aspects of the software development/testing lifecycle.


• The ability to learn quickly, operate comfortably, and make decisions within a complex environment with incomplete information.


• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, organizational, managerial, and problem-solving skills.


• Able to build consensus across cross-functional teams and encourage knowledge-sharing within the team.


• Strong decision-making abilities.


• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration


• Experience using SAS products (preferred, not required)

World-class benefits

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.


• Medical plan options include:
  
  
  
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  
  
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
  
  
  
  


• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!


• An industry-leading 401k plan.


• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development


• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.


• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.


• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

You are welcome here.

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.

Additional Information:

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