Senior Manager, Software Development - Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina or US, Remote if not local to Cary, NC 

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About the job

As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will be responsible for leading multiple teams working in the SAS 9 R&D Division. You will work with other managers and technical leads to manage software development work in a highly collaborative organization. You will ensure managers and individuals for whom you have organizational responsibility are consistently strong contributors within a high-performance team. You will use SAS product knowledge and software construction expertise to ensure project work you oversee is completed to a high standard of quality and with innovative coding solutions. You will be responsible for scoping, scheduling, and overseeing work projects up to high complexity.

As a Sr Manager, Software Development, you will:

• Manage all aspects of the team, including development and testing, internal and external communication/collaboration, performance management and improvement, and professional growth.
• Develop, organize, prioritize, and assign objectives and responsibilities consistent with department, division, and corporate goals.
• Communicate and represent departmental interests to team, other departments, divisions, and various management levels as necessary.
• Provide leadership to the team through mentoring, training, and managing the activities of the team.
• Manage and lead project scoping and scheduling of engineering projects; track progress of individual tasks and alert stakeholders of any concerns meeting schedules.
• Ensure that projects are completed and implemented in a timely manner while following established procedures and schedules.
• Regularly communicate development and testing status, project risks, resource requirements and allocation, and other relevant knowledge with upper management.
• Advocate for the adoption of best practices and continuous improvement throughout the software lifecycle.
• Become actively involved in daily operations and duties as needed to meet schedules or to resolve complex problems or issues.
• Be a change enabler.
• Be responsible for tactical management of a functional area, feature, product, or multiple products or solutions, involving senior leadership as required in major decisioning.
• Balance innovation vs. delivery commitments
• Managing diverse teams (skills, geography, seniority)
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
  
• Requires a minimum of twelve years of related programming or testing experience, including three years of project lead, supervisory or management experience.  
• Practical experience with more than one programming language (SAS, C/C++, SQL, Java, Go).
• Owns end-to-end delivery outcomes – scope, schedule, risk management
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Ensure projects meet timelines, quality, and process standards.
• A strong understanding of how Agile SDLC practices enable a successful team
• Experience leading development and delivery at the enterprise system level.
• Experience influencing stakeholders outside of your team and business unit.
• Experience using SAS products (preferred, not required)
• Maintains accountability for software lifecycle, customer-impacting issues, and continuous improvement
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Creating an Inclusive Environment: Making decisions and initiating action to ensure that business unit policies and practices leverage the capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, styles, abilities, and motivation.
• 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.
• Creating a Culture of Trust: Fostering a work environment that encourages people to act with integrity and treat each other and their ideas with respect; creating and protecting a high-trust environment by setting an example, advocating for others in the face of challenges, removing barriers to trust, and rewarding others for demonstrating behaviors that cultivate trust. Provides feedback both reinforcing and constructive regarding the behaviors of his/her managers.
• Proficiency with 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.
• Familiarity with SQL programming
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration

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.

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Additional Information:

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