Manager - Software Development

Summary Statement:

You will manage a team of developers to help us create the next generation of innovative solutions while also enhancing and optimizing our existing systems and applications. Providing day-to-day management and development for your team, you will manage projects to ensure seamless delivery, implementation, support, and issue resolution. Using your knowledge and experience with the technology you will help guide our organization to implement solutions that will move us forward and keep us ahead of the competition.

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Penske Manager of Billing - Rental and Fuel Systems, you will be leading a team focused on key software development, enhancements, and maintenance. Working with your teams, stakeholders, and development partners/vendors to ensure implementation and help define architectures to create robust solutions. Conducting performance reviews for your team and engineering process for quality assurance to ensure that deliverables are effective and meet the needs of the end-user.

Guiding teams and removing roadblocks to ensure timely solutions, as well as, growing your team of developers to advance in their careers are key tasks that help make sure we can keep our organization moving forward. Fostering a partnership with business owners and key stakeholders to get the job done.

Penske Responsibilities:
Provide direction and day-to-day management of development staff to ensure that any roadblocks are removed, and developers/teams are successfully moving forward
Make sure that development projects are prioritized, scheduled, and completed according to business need
Foster collaboration by leading regular meetings and communicating with process owners, product managers, agile teams, IT groups, and other stakeholders to negotiate priority and timelines while managing resources required to get the job done
Hire new associates, conduct performance reviews, guide, and mentor their career development
Ensure on-time and defect-free delivery of applications in accordance with Penske standards
Ensure technical leads follow the PDP (Penske Development Process) and maintain management reporting
Responsibilities for multiple systems, agile teams, and cross-functional projects
Other projects, teams, and responsibilities as assigned by the manager
Follow IT practices in security, licensing, source code management, incident management, and following architectural standards
Coach and mentor associates. Develop team members to increase value to the organization
Reduce complexity in the environment
Identify future opportunities for system enhancement and value generation
Other duties as assigned

Penske Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Math or Information Systems or equivalent development experience.
Green belt, Black belt, Lean or PMP certification preferred.
12+ years of software development experience
5+ years leading/supervising multiple IT projects through the full SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including prior work defining complex application architecture and integration with multi-tiered systems
Proven experience in leading and managing small to mid-size team
Proven experience in team development and performance management
Experience in migrating legacy applications to cloud platforms such as AWS
Experience in implementing large scale applications with Event Driven and Domain Driven Architecture patterns
Significant functional experience (8+ years) with core Technologies and Architectures - Java Enterprise Technologies, Spring Boot, Spring Frameworks, Restful Web services, SOA, Angular, HTML/CSS, SQL, DB2/Oracle, Kafka, Cloud Technologies
Experience in leading teams in custom development, evaluating, selecting, integrating, and implementing application software (package) solutions when appropriate
Strong interpersonal and decision-making skills
Experience in building and managing relationships with various business and IT Stakeholders
Able to communicate highly technical concepts in a clear/concise manner to non-technical individuals
Experience in prioritizing technology needs within set budget requirements
Knowledge of project management methods and tools
Strong experience with Agile (SAFE) / Dev Ops approaches or methodologies
Have strong knowledge of Integration technologies like Spring Integration Framework, API Management, Micro-services
Expertise in leading the architecture, design & implementation of highly complex data integrations and data services by utilizing technologies such as Spring Boot, Angular, DB2/Oracle
Advanced experience in working with the various IT teams to build and implement a scalable architecture for relevant software solutions
Full fluency and expert-level knowledge in systems/languages applicable to the role

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with…