Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager

Maximus is seeking a results-oriented Software Development Project Manager to join our team managing multiple delivery teams while shaping our clients' technological and operational future through thoughtful collaboration, adherence to industry best practices, and by way of a continuous improvement mindset.

Job Description:

Engage as trusted advisor with client leadership team, demonstrating responsiveness to priorities while also providing actionable strategies and recommendations to solve challenges, improve processes, and achieve client goals

Serve as main Point of Contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes, enhancing awareness of work in progress, and promoting collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts

Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change

Promote development team and program actions to mature the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice in place to include but not limited to the following:

o Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (AGile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives

o Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, removing impediments and helping to escalate issues through problem-solving actions

o Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement

o Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART's goals

o Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements

o Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs

Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties if on leave

Maintain weekly communication with the client's Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group

Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput

Promote a strategy with tactical steps that can be implemented and monitored leading to improved code quality practices, automation testing, test-driven development, shifting of security to the left, and requirements traceability

Minimum requirements:

Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered. Selected candidate will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public trust prior to start.

Bachelor's Degree

7+ years of Direct Management Experience

Proficiency in Microsoft suite of tools

Ability to think quickly, act swiftly, and adapt

Comfortable tasking peers, briefing senior leadership and briefing groups of people

Experience with creating and delivering formal contract deliverables from start to finish while brokering input across the program from capability SMEs

Experience with managing Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance engineers while ensuring they are complying with program processes and norms.

Experience working in a scaled Agile environment

Agile Certifications/Trainings

Desired skills and qualifications:

Experience developing dashboards with PowerBI

Previous experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or practicing the role and responsibilities as laid out by SAFe

Development experience a plus: Java, XBRL, HTML, API Development, JSON and/or REST services

Application Modernization experience. Have helped to transform a monolithic application to microservice architecture

Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift platform

Experience managing IT/Software projects at a financial agency

Consulting or Systems Integration experience to a federal department or agency in support of a high visibility system/application

SAFe Certifications/Trainings

Minimum Salary: $130,000.00

Maximum Salary: $160,000.00