The Profile Group, Inc. - A Technical Placement Firm

Development Manager (Norwood)

Summary of Responsibilities:

The Development Manager will be responsible for the management of a diverse team of Development and Quality Assurance professionals tasked with delivering a state of the art Data Warehouse solution to the business using and integrating the latest technology.  This individual will be responsible for the tracking of their group’s projects against budgets and deliverable schedules while ensuring that they comply with the organization’s development process as well as industry standards and best practices.  The Development Manager will also be responsible for their team’s technical training, career development and technical mentoring.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Staff Management:

·         Build/grow a highly motivated team of Architects, Developers & QA Analysts that deliver innovative technology solutions to timely and successful conclusions while adhering to company standards, quality and deadlines.

·         Provide direction, motivation, and leadership for the existing team.  Contribute to the recruiting and hiring for open positions.

·         Create and maintain a comprehensive training/development plan for each full time team member that includes creation of career growth goals and development of new skills such as technical project management, technical documentation, technical research and management skills development.

·         Employ and monitor the use of contract help to augment the skill set of the full time staff and advance initiatives more efficiently.

·         Build an environment where team members may be moved from one project to another limiting training and acclimation time. 

 Project Management:

·         Understand and analyze project requirements to generate adequate information for successfully delivering the project and achieving business goals.

·         Track development of multiple projects involving multiple resources and modules, while maintaining the integrity of the core system architecture.

·         Lead and coordinate the activities/deliverables for multiple new technology projects, including planning, estimating, scheduling, tracking & reporting, cross functional communication and managing dependencies to successful completion.

·         Track progress against the plan, assign resources to specific tasks and coordinate internal team communications.

·         Maintain accountability for the timely and successful deliver of scalable solutions that meet end user requirements and deliver efficiencies to the business.

 Software Design and Development:

·         Drive the daily management of technical projects. Ensuring that projects utilize best practices in all aspects of the development life cycle.

·         Ensure project documentation meets development standards and maintain documentation during the entire lifecycle of the project.

·         Mentor existing staff on state-of-the-art development methods.

·         Contribute to the ongoing selection and implementation of new system development tools.

·         Develop framework for automated testing.

·         Develop standards designed to maintain consistency throughout applications and their components.

Job Qualifications:

• Consistent track record of success in managing diverse engineering teams and leading multiple technical projects through the Software Development Life Cycle.
• 3-5 years managing a development team who’s primary focus is the development and architecture of .net/ C# solutions
• Demonstrated leadership in the design and development of customized, large scale software development solutions that incorporate industry standard best practices
• 5 + years data warehousing development, design and implementation experience
• Proficiency in the development of staff skill set. This includes coding best practices as well as technical project management skills
• Demonstrated ability to maintain resource allocation, timely communications and meeting deadlines for high profile projects
• Demonstrated experience with .NET architecture
• At least 3 years designing and implementing .NET 2.0 solutions in a production environment using C#
• Detailed understanding of the Common Language Runtime, component-oriented development, object oriented development, and the .NET object model
• Exposure to the components of .NET 3.0 (WCF, WF, WPF)
• 5+ years professional experience developing complex, n-tier applications
• Strong knowledge of OOD and SOA design principles
• Relational Database experience including Data Modeling
• History of implementing Performance/Load/Stress tolerant systems for high availability and high concurrent usage
• Experience with web based applications and web user interfaces
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with project management, business analysts, and end users.