Position Purpose: Manage department staff including hiring, performance management and career development to ensure alignment with defined goals.

• Plan and direct the daily activities of a team focused on a particular system or technology.
• Liaison with managers in IT and other functions, applying standard solutions and processes.
• Apply specific technical expertise in depth to address technical and business issues.
• Preferred Experience:
• 5+ years of experience managing software development teams.
• Strong IT management skills, Looking for a seasoned IT manager who can come in and start leading immediately over someone who is just moving into that role who will need a lot of coaching in the role, ability to work independently.
• Experience with leading a software development team, technology is not as important as experience in running a development team, managing all aspects of development including: requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Agile experience, ability to run teams in a scrum environment
• Strong project management skills, ability to assess work, estimate and monitor team progress and performance
• Technologies: Java, Pega, Oracle
• Experience leading new agile/scrum teams, agile coaching and mentoring, SAFe (scaled agile) experience
• Experience with print fulfillment technologies

Qualifications:

• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience. 5+ years of related IT experience. Previous experience as a lead in a functional area, managing cross functional teams on large scale projects or supervisory experience including hiring, training, assigning work and managing the performance of staff.
• What are the 3-4 non-negotiable requirements on this position?5+ years of experience managing software development teams. Strong IT management skills, Looking for a seasoned IT manager who can come in and start leading immediately over someone who is just moving into that role who will need a lot of coaching in the role, ability to work independently. Experience with leading a software development team, technology is not as important as experience in running a development team, managing all aspects of development including: requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment. Agile experience, ability to run teams in a scrum environment Strong project management skills, ability to assess work, estimate and monitor team progress and performance Technologies: Java, Pega, Oracle Experience leading new agile/scrum teams, agile coaching and mentoring, SAFe (scaled agile) experience Experience with print fulfillment technologies
• What are the nice-to-have skills? Management of staff and application development teams
• What is exciting about this opportunity? Please use this section to describe team and company culture. Major company growth on West coast as well as Nationally