Application Development Manager

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Application Development Manager (Onsite)

Apply locations Monterrey, NL time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R0011024

SWBC is seeking a talented individual to directly impact our highly motivated business plan as it relies heavily on software built and managed by this organization.

Why you'll love this role:

You will lead software engineering efforts to meet our goal of optimizing our customer experience and building the confidence of our end users in the platforms we support. As an agent of change with a strong eye towards continuous improvement along with the grit and determination to get things done the right way. The Application Development manager is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing and driving the technical strategy, development roadmap, execution of software solutions within our organization. The position requires a visionary leader with a strong experienced technical background, exceptional strategic planning skills, experience in communicating technical impact to business stakeholders, and the ability mentor and oversee highly skilled software engineering team. The Application Development manager plays a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology roadmap by ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. 

Essential duties include the following:

• Builds a team of engineers focused on creating and maintaining critical components of our business while attracting, retaining, and developing engineering talent.
• Works with product owners, architects as well as technical-domain peers to establish a strategy and plan for system development and execute a clear, forward thinking technical strategy that aligns with companies’ business objectives. 
• Meets with executive stakeholders to review goals and ensure product delivery aligns accordingly.
• Coaches and mentors’ development teams and Development Managers on tools, processes, and programming practices that deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Identifies metrics and goals that help advance speed and quality of product delivery.
• Identifies, sets, and executes engineering team goals in a highly visible manner (OKRs).
• Leads agile teams and managers to attain effective and meaningful results for our users.
• Works with development leadership to help define technical and architectural direction with a focus on strategizing and defining implementation plans to meet business objectives.
• Has technical skills with proficiency in various programming languages, development frameworks and software architecture best practices. In-depth knowledge of software development methodologies.
• Collaborates closely with cross functional teams to support the development aspect of the software development life cycle from design, quality assurance and architecture to ensure successful product launches.
• Provides thought leadership for teams and guides them through troubleshooting processes.

Serious candidates will possess the minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline or equivalent Information Technology experience.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years managing the performance of high performing engineering teams of 20+ people and multiple team managers.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience working on client-facing technologies that directly contribute to top-line revenue.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience implementing microservice and event-driven architectures.
• Minimum of two (2) years working with cloud-native technologies in AWS like AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, S3, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, SNS, SQS, KMS, etc. to build resilient, scalable solutions and enable development teams with access to enhanced tooling and services.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional team and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading diverse teams with nearshore, offshore, and remote workers.
• Staying current with emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Ability to educate and mentor teams on how to effectively deploy new concepts and practices with high quality.
• Exceptional team-building skills, with a history of successfully managing and growing software engineer teams.
• Strong problem determination, analytical, and resolution skills to align technical strategies with business objectives.
• Ability to understand technical, business, and operational impacts of a project or problem.
• Demonstrative technical and design expertise with an understanding in agile principles and extensive knowledge of scrum and kanban.
• Demonstrative initiative, innovation, and a willingness and to adapt and learn new technologies/processes.
• Experience in business acumen and ability to gain a deep understanding for business operations to align technical decisions with companies overall strategic direction.

SWBC offers*:

• Competitive overall compensation package
• Work/Life balance 
• Employee engagement activities and recognition awards 
• Years of Service awards
• Career enhancement and growth opportunities 
• Emerging Professionals and Mentor Program
• Continuing education and career certifications 
• Variety of healthcare coverage options
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) retirement plans 
• Lucrative Wellness Program

*Based upon employee eligibility 

Additional Information:

SWBC is a Substance-Free Workplace and requires pre-employment drug testing.

Please note, SWBC does not hire tobacco users as allowed by law.

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SWBC is a diversified financial services company providing insurance, mortgage, and investment services to financial institutions, businesses, and individuals. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, SWBC employs 2,400 people nationwide.

At SWBC, you are not just an employee number, but a vital team member; each employee stands out and has the ability to make a direct impact at SWBC. We’re looking for the brightest and most creative to help introduce new solutions to new problems identified in the market and improve how our existing solutions can better help our users. SWBC is a big proponent of nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit through mentorship, continuing education, internal career growth opportunities and having a platform to make meaningful changes come to life.