SAS

Manager, Software Development- Remote or Hybrid

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We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

As a Manager, Software Development you will be responsible for a team of software developers in the Decisioning R&D division. This role will be responsible for managing the development of the Model Manager application.  This product is key in a significant number of SAS deployments around the world as it is used to register, monitor, and manage both SAS and open-source models running in a customer’s environment.

As a Manager, Software Development, 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.

 Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 8+ years of related programming or testing experience, including one year of project lead, supervisory or management experience. 
• Experience in leading projects to deliver high quality, scalable, performant and secure code.
• Experience in CI/CD and DevOps using GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with Agile practices.
• Experience in multiple development languages (SAS, Python, Go, Java, Typescript)
• Experience and knowledge of the analytics lifecycle.
• Experience in developing applications for the cloud including the use of one of more of the large cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Experience of container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using SAS products
• Understanding of Data Science Fundamentals
• Experience with MLOps Engineering, AI Engineering, or LLMOps
• Proficiency with all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to build consensus across cross-functional teams and encourage knowledge-sharing within the team.

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.
• 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.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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