Director of Software Development

Company: Veros Real Estate Solutions
Location: Santa Ana
Posted on: February 16, 2021

Job Description:

Position Summary:
This role will provide oversight to all activities within the software development group, with specific emphasis on quality and time delivery. This role requires significant collaboration with business teams and must have strong executive presence and presentation. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of growing, leading and managing successful teams and individuals in a software development environment.

Principal Responsibilities:
- Lead the development team and work with the Quality Assurance, Software Architecture, Release Management, IT teams and Project Management Office to deliver all Roadmap/Release commitments on time, on scope and with quality
- Engage with internal business sponsors and external customers, anticipating their needs, managing expectations and responding rapidly to customer requests
- Serve as an authority on functional and technical issues through management of personnel, both in-house and contract
- Participate in software development projects in a functional subject matter expert capacity
- Lead recruiting efforts and mentorship of software development engineers
- Maintain and evolve development processes and standards for coding, unit testing, reviews, and release checklists
- Collaborate with software architecture team to champion product architectural improvements
- Ensure development support coverage in support of tight customer SLAs
- Research current trends, development processes and emerging technologies and when appropriate, effectively implement them
- Evaluate project requirements to estimate development effort, duration and cost
- Plan and effectively manage to an annual budget for the department
- Work with limited direction, usually within a complex and evolving environment, to drive delivery of solutions while influencing cultural change
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and resolve scheduling and other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines

Qualifications and Requirements:
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- 3+ years of experience in a software architecture role
- 3+ years of experience in management with direct reports and recruiting responsibilities
- Proven success with software/technology companies operating and maintaining complex, enterprise, real-time mission critical products and systems within the financial services or real estate industries
- Excellent management and communication skills, with ability to interact and communicate effectively at all levels and across the organization
- Experience launching large-scale B2B enterprise applications and services on time and within budget
- Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, principles, practices and procedures in professional software development including the complete SDLC
- Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, SAFe) and transitioning teams from Waterfall to Agile development
- Experience designing SAAS applications with enterprise workflow and system integration components
- Experience with deploying web applications in a high-availability, clustered environment
- Attention to detail
- Excellent written, verbal, and diagrammatic communication skills

Technology Qualifications:
- Extensive experience with Microsoft technologies: .NET Framework and Core, ASP.NET, WCF, Web API and IIS
- Extensive experience with XML/XSD/XSLT, REST, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript and web services
- Experience with at least one RDBMS, preferably Oracle and PL/SQL
- Experience with DevOps transformation, CI/CD, and test automation (e.g. Selenium)

Veros is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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