Title: Software Manager

Location: Bangalore

Job Profile Summary:

The Software Manager is responsible for managing uniform competency areas or tasks across multiple groups, establishing budgets and monitoring expenditures, methodologies, and workforce to ensure efficient and effective operations. The role offers strategic direction and guidance to software professionals, ensuring their efforts align with organizational objectives and fostering their professional development through continuous feedback and assistance. The role understands the product creation process, ensuring team members possess the requisite skills and knowledge to effectively execute software development procedures. The role plans with a one-year timeframe, establishing precise goals and timelines to achieve long-term objectives and deliverables while adapting to changes in project scope or requirements. The role champions new technologies for optimization, demonstrating deep understanding of product usage scenarios, user needs and is able to create frictionless flows for customer usage.

Job Responsibilities:

Manages homogeneous competency areas or activities across several groups, defining budgets and supervising costs, methods, and staffing to ensure efficient and effective operations.

Provides strategic guidance and direction to software professionals, ensuring their work aligns with organizational goals and fostering their professional growth through continuous feedback and support.

Understands the product creation process, ensuring that all team members are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to successfully implement software development processes.

Plans with a time horizon of a year, setting clear objectives and timelines to meet long-term goals and deliverables while adapting to any changes in project scope or requirements.

Executes continuous improvement initiatives in processes and ways of working to achieve operational excellence, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness across teams.

Makes informed business and technical decisions promptly, based on thorough data gathering, effective analysis, and sound judgment, balancing immediate tasks with the organization's long-term strategic vision.

Ensures delivery of high-quality software at a sustainable pace, maintaining advanced levels of software craftsmanship as established by the Software Center of Excellence.

Interacts regularly with lower and/or senior management or executive levels regarding matters spanning multiple functional areas, divisions, and/or customers.

Ensures adherence to all applicable development processes, legal standards, quality metrics, security protocols, and regulatory requirements to maintain compliance and excellence.

Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.

Experience:

Minimum 12-15 years of Work experience in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture, Testing and Quality Assurance or equivalent.

Mandatory Skills:

Technical / Functional Skills:

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Business Acumen

Continuous Improvement

People Management

Budget Management

Quality Assurance (QA)

Escalation Management

Software Architectures

Stakeholder Management

Resource Planning & Allocation

Requirements Management

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Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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