Manager Of Software Development Jobs in Iowa (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:

The Manager of Mobile Software Development role is responsible for managing and leading a team of Engineering professionals. Responsible for managing and helping to prioritize their work, ensure workloads are appropriate to support business goals, drive continuous improvements focused on ensuring quality products are developed, as well as focus on the team's professional development in their current role and further progression at Vontas.
In addition to these core responsibilities, this role will be working with our Business Analysts to ensure the Mobile Software Development team's metrics are current and shared across the organization.
This role reports to the Director, Hardware and On-Vehicle Solutions.

Job Description:

Supervisory Duties/Responsibilities:

• Coach, support, guide, and direct your Mobile Software Development team. This will include:
  • Talent reviews and personnel development plans
  • Managing all Mobile Software Development metrics and monitoring the performance of these key metrics.
  • Keeping up on training and use of new tools and technologies to be leveraged in development.
  • Lead in talent acquisition systems and processes, including recruitment activities and decisions on selections.
  • Identify and nurture talent within the team for future leadership roles.
  • Collaborate with the team to drive, develop, and execute innovation in our current products and solutions.
  • Establish and communicate performance expectations.
  • Identify performance gaps and monitor performance to ensure development plans are met.
  • Ensure fair and equal treatment of employees, avoiding favoritism, addressing difficult issues (with assistance from Human Resources), and practices empathy and compassion.
  • Promote Company policies, procedures, mission, and values by training and providing direction to direct reports in their use and application.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage your Mobile Software Development team to achieve workloads and efficiency that will meet business goals.
  • Resource planning
  • Take an agile approach to workload planning using tools such as JIRA administratively.
  • Work in collaboration with the Mobile Software Development Team Lead on
    • Retrospectives
    • Sprint planning
    • Backlog grooming
    • Roadmap planning
    • Reporting
    • Story Definition -in coordination with the Product Management Team
    • Managing priority of tasks
• Work closely with Professional Services, Product Management, Sales, and Marketing to define detailed solutions for sales opportunities.
• Manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across various product areas.
  • Close and consistent interaction with the System Integration and Test Team
• Coordinate cross-functionally with other Team Managers to develop comprehensive solutions for our customers with a focus on the end user, quality, longevity, and market trends.
• Utilize industry best practices to challenge current processes and ensure that all Development work is delivered with high standards of quality.
• Assist with ad hoc requests and take on required initiatives related to improving efficiency and quality of work across the "design and build" cycle.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Familiarity with .NET, C#, C++, Embedded Windows, and Linux
• Ability to quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of the Company's solutions and project delivery methodology to propose, estimate and scope services to best meet our customer needs.
• Invested in continuous improvements and being a part of solutions that will improve the state of business.
• Well versed in the latest tools and technologies to support development initiatives.
• Highly proficient in creating comprehensive solutions taking serviceability, quality, longevity, and end user experience into account during development.
• Knowledge of automated testing, regression, and pipeline-based quality gates.
• Professionally develop employees for individual career growth
• Excellent communicator and active listener capable of influencing team outcomes.
• Ability to guide teams in reliability engineering practices.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and related software(s).

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience accepted.
• 4+ years in software engineering or development.
• 3+ years in leadership roles managing engineering teams.
• Understanding of the North American Transit Industry and Agencies is preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer/laptop.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time (including domestic and international), sometimes for extended periods, which may involve sitting during transit and walking at various locations.
• Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds at a time.
• Must be able to handle high utilization of hand and wrist dexterity.

Disclaimers:

• All job requirements are subject to possible revision to reflect changes in the position requirements or to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to which will be required in this position. Employees will be required to follow other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor/manager (within guidelines and compliance with Federal and State Laws). Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis.
• Vontas remains and actively participates as an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer.

Worker Type:

Regular

Number of Openings Available:

1

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. *Professional recruiting agents or consultants need not call.