Software Engineering Manager Santarém

Software Engineering Manager
Santarém
Santarém, Santarém District, Portugal

Skill-Up Technologies is looking for a full time Software Engineering Manager to join our Technology team. We are actively seeking a
- oriented,
- driven Project Manager with strong experience leading agile software development projects and launch of enterprise software products. In this high visibility position, you will lead project teams through an agile software development lifecycle and will be accountable for
- time,
- budget, high quality software project deliveries.

The Software Engineering manager at Skill-Up Technologies is responsible for leading and representing a team of Software Developers and Technical Architects which focuses on creating, maintaining, securing, and improving Laa
S-based technology platform.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Project Planning and Management

• Apply modern project management techniques to manage a project, achieving objectives of scope, quality, time and cost. Organize and lead project status and working meetings.
• Prepare progress reports and present to executive steering committee on a regular basis.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Manage project changes.
• Apply agile methodologies to project management.
• Manages stakeholder, partner, and vendor relationships.

Team Management

• Hold project teams accountable for their project responsibilities and deliverables.
• Proactively ensure that teams are "in sync" in terms of communication, schedules, and issues.
• Develop project teams by promoting empowerment, engagement, and
  - quality deliverables.
• Creates and maintains a strong team culture, focused on developing a growth mindset, teaming, collaboration, and operating with high levels of emotional intelligence.
• Manages hiring and career path processes to attract, grow, and retain the best talent possible.
• Coaches and mentors team members on their journey of professional growth and career development.

Product Manager Support

• Partner with product managers/owners to plan and prioritize product delivery roadmaps and support key customer deployments.
• Identifies opportunities for growth and improvement. Works across business teams to create better ways of delivering the right thing the right way fast.

Process Management and Improvement

• Champion continuous improvement and adoption of project management and agile software development best practices.
• Strong understanding of Project Management methodologies and Agile software development, with experience delivering enterprise software products.
• Provides
  - practice guidance for securing Skill
  Up Technologies’ environments, data, and intellectual property.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Operates in a growth mindset, and demonstrates an appetite for learning about new technologies, programing languages, and systems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experienced managing a team comprised of
  - house and remote developers.
• Proven project management in the software or IT industry using project management best practices.
• Proven experience managing agile projects and moving teams to agile methodologies.
• Experience with Cloud technologies preferred.
• Proficient of SQL,
  - SQL, and
  - memory databases including My
  SQL, Mongo
  DB, Memcached.
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience working in Python and Django.
• Excellent understanding of what makes clean and maintainable
  - based industry standards.