Senior Manager - Engineering en Solera

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation.  For more information, please visit solera.com.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Engineer Manager is responsible for playing a leading role on a team focused on the development of applications. This person analyses, designs, programs, and debugs software enhancements. Using multiple programming languages, this engineer will design, implement, test and debug the full software stack. Prepares documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications. Experience in logical data modelling and experience in defining and using databases programmatically. This person must also have solid communication and team-building skills and must be able to participate in software design discussions and guide the architecture of the solution based on proven object-oriented design concepts, industry standard patterns, and best practices. Mentors, guides and aid the growth of less-experienced developers through leadership.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Lead the team that translates business requirements to conceptual solution architecture and high-level project estimates. Be both highly technical and an effective people manager. Build highly secure, scalable, and reliable applications/services.
• Execute Agile planning and own the team's deliverables. Partner with product, QA, and other technical teams in test strategy, integration testing, release planning, and coordination.
• Ensuring the design and development of software are done according to best practices.
• Set clear expectations and goals.
• In addition to providing mentorship, establish a clear career development pathway for the team.
• Conducting capacity planning and monitoring productivity to support the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Manage project and release tracking, providing regular progress reports to senior leadership.
• Monitoring and evaluating the performance of software engineering personnel.
• Monitor and follow the team’s progress, proactively mitigate risks, compile and report progress.
• Develops, modifies, and implements Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted applications according to business requirements using:
  • Microsoft C# .Net Development
  • Open Source Technologies
  • ASP.Net MVC 3.0+ framework
  • WCF (REST/SOAP) web services, XML and JSON protocols
  • Windows Services, WPF, and Microservices
  • ActiveMQ
  • Redis Cache
  • JasperSoft reporting framework
  • Relational DBMS (MSSQL Server and/or PostgreSQL and/or SQLite)
  • NoSQL
  • AWS/Azure
  • SRE: Datadog, New Relic, APM, API Gateways, Rancher (K8s Management), GitHub, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK. Alerting and monitoring. Building a scalable solution.
  • Containers and Container Orchestration
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes+ Istio

• Logical data modelling, database definition and manipulation, and data synchronization
• Object-oriented design, coding, performance tuning, and unit testing
• Research, extraction and analysis of complex data
• Authors and reviewers technical requirements to ensure compliance with business requirements
• Performs proper unit testing and software code writing (including automated unit testing)
• Familiar with appropriate standards and techniques used during the Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC, security) and applies them appropriately
• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software
• Participates in peer code reviews and develops the skill level of others through mentorship
• May work on multiple tasks/projects simultaneously with various team members and/or other groups, both internally and externally
• Engages effectively in self-directed time management and prioritization of workload
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned by management
• Essential to be available to work during Omnitracs corporate business hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

• EDUCATION:  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• EXPERIENCE:  12+ years of applicable Software Development experience and minimum 2+ years' experience as an Engineering Manager

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• Experience in Microsoft C# .Net Development
• Experience in ASP.Net MVC 3.0+ framework
• Experience in WCF (REST/SOAP) web services
• Experience in Database management system
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and oral English skills
• Excellent working knowledge of logical data modelling and Database management systems
• Excellent working knowledge of C# development environments and processes
• Versed in industry-standard Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) process methodologies and Agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Knowledge of Agile practices
• Knowledge and understanding of software design patterns
• SRE: Datadog, New Relic, APM, API Gateways, Rancher (K8s Management), GitHub, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK. Alerting and monitoring. Building a scalable solution.
• Transportation industry knowledge is desired but not required
• Experience mentoring less experienced developers
• Approaches software development using industry-standard concepts, practices, and procedures
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously with various team members and/or other groups both internally and externally
• Ability to effectively engage in self-directed time management and prioritization of workload
• Ability to work independently to develop new skills as needed to support new products and applications
• Ability to coordinate and oversee parallel efforts for multiple developers