Engineering manager

ELEKS Engineering Management Office is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our teams in Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, or Kyiv.

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years of experience in software development
• 3+ years of hands-on solution delivery experience, leading and guiding solution assessment, and delivery efforts
• 1+ year experience leading the team
• Solid experience in at least one programming language (Java, C++, .NET, JS, Python) having implemented large-scale products or custom projects
• Experience in designing and implementing architectural solutions
• English: Upper-Intermediate and higher

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Proactive
• Excellent communication skills
• Client-oriented
• Adaptability to modern technology
• Leadership skills
• Ability to coordinate the team

EDUCATION

• A bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent experience or non-university education

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Excellent technical skills (mobile or website systems; security principles; open source security tools; programming languages; and shell scripting)
• Great analytical skills
• Problem solving abilities
• A high degree of adaptability in order to learn new technologies as needed and successfully manage the daily challenges of a technical environment
• Excellent multi-tasking skills

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engineering Leadership:
• Coordinate one or more development teams towards project delivery to ensure dependencies resolution and maximize delivery performance
• Initiate and drive architecture decisions and development tasks in close collaboration with stakeholders
• Coordinate team dynamics to achieve the best possible outcome for the project with the given team members; ensure everybody can contribute with their best strengths and team members compensate for each others weaknesses
• Assign tasks needed to design and implement a software solution to ensure quality and performance of implementation alongside with the ability to learn for the team members or team
• Ensure process compliance in the assigned scope and participate in technical discussions/reviews to guarantee the quality of decisions made
• Conduct evaluation of the program code quality, formalization and algorithmizing of the given tasks in accordance with the technical specification or other regulations used in the company
• Make decisions about deployment and software delivery (e.g. CD, branching/merging) approach
• Make decisions about changes to the program code, and modify code if necessary.
• Solve technical issues and make key technical decisions, conduct technological research when needed
• Facilitate mentorship or be a mentor for engineers to ensure their development
• Participating in the planning of software implementation:
• Analyze and agree on software architecture with stakeholders to ensure the architecture will fulfill the business need
• Develop and/or review/confirm/improve (if such exist) key inputs to Project Plan as the scope of work, dependencies, critical path, team composition
• Contain scope of work to meet product requirements and project constraints (duration, efforts)
• Suggest options to the project manager for optimization in terms of technical scope, and product scope to meet the cost or time constraints
• Actively participate in presenting and negotiating delivery plans with the client and other stakeholders to support decision-making to deliver quality solutions within project constraints
• Work closely with the project manager and other project stakeholders to manage project constraints and clients expectations:
• Control the execution of engineering tasks, make appropriate engineering decisions regarding plans adjustment (software modules reuse, etc.)
• Initiate changes to architecture and technical design and control their execution to adhere to changes in the Business or IT environment
• Work closely with the QA team and engineers on critical situations (production issues, critical defects, etc.) and participate in follow-up root cause analysis exercises to design improvements to the process or solution
• Identify and/or initiate project change requests
• Analyze and estimate the impact (efforts, duration) of change request and present it to project stakeholders

What will you get with ELEKS

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Challenging tasks
• Competence development
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy

ABOUT ELEKS

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.