If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The Software Engineering Manager will provide technical leadership, vision, direction, and mentoring for the software engineering team. This individual will manage a team of personnel who design, develop, and support applications to meet business requirements. The Software Engineering Manager will deliver product and feature roadmaps and provide overall leadership and day to day management for a team of software development professionals. Additionally, they will provide resource planning and project scheduling using Agile/Scrum software development methodologies.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Meets business needs by managing the activities of developers consistently delivering quality solutions on-time, within budget, and scope. * Work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements. * Actively drives the development life cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support. * Developing project plans, resource planning, scheduling and managing development timelines. * Building and managing multi-disciplined software teams and overseeing the development processes using industry best practices. * Responsible for design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring the software development team. * Support a change management process to manage software releases, application patching and changes to production configurations. * Manage multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; excelling at pinpointing and resolving problems in early project stages to avoid cost/time expenses. * Oversight and management of department expenses and budget planning. * Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities: * Strong people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties. * They must have a commitment to quality through the ability to translate complex technical requirements into functional software using best practices. * Expert in Agile methods including SCRUM and TDD. * Experience in application architecture and making rational build / buy / interface decisions. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile/Scrum projects. * Deep technical knowledge of software delivery in AWS as well as platform design, tools, best practices, and operations.

Competencies: Organizational Impact: * Manages a team that focuses on executing the operational plans for the job area with measurable contribution to the achievement of results of the department, function, or office. * Assigns and distributes work. * Compiles data to prepare budgets.

Problem Solving and Decision Making: * Responsible for... For full info follow application link.

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