Development Manager - Malaga

Leading Malaga based Software development company have a great new opportunity for an experienced Software Development Manager.

In this role you will be responsible for mentoring, coaching and motivating the software development team; manage the implementation of the development processes, tools, techniques and standards; champion best practices by developing programs to disperse knowledge and skills (development methods, estimating, debugging etc) and manage the career development of the collective team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for mentoring and coaching Software Development Team Leads within the local office

• Collaborating with peers across all sites to define high technical standards for the team (ie. Code conventions, code reviews, etc.)

• Ensure that adherence to technical standards, process and policy is being followed.

• Day-to-day management of the Software Development function within the local office

• Collaborate with peers across all sites and functions (QA, SCM, UX, etc) to define, socialize and then execute a set of software metrics to measure the performance of the team and the success (of failure) of any process changes.

• Collaborate with peers across all sites and functions (QA, SCM, UX, etc) to define, socialize and then execute process improvements throughout the entire SDLC.

• Collaborate with peers across all sites and functions (QA, SCM, UX, etc) to define, socialize and then execute coos site process standardization and harmonization.

• Work with peers across all sites and functions (QA, SCM, UX, etc) using feedback loops (metrics, retrospectives, etc) to continually drive performance improvement.

• Work with architecture team to define platform and language choices, high level design, tool sets, etc.

• Staffing, retention, performance reviews, etc.

• General inspiration and leadership for the team, including maintaining morale

• Plus anything else you think you can bring to the position

Requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• A minimum of eight (8) years experience in software development.

• A minimum of five (5) years of staff management or team lead experience.

• Experience in software design, web application development, and project management.

• Demonstrated ability to motivate a team to achieve the defined vision and product objectives while balancing business priorities through collaboration with senior management members.

• Knowledge of , or experience with, leading Quality Assurance teams.

• Proven experience in having developed an autonomous development team.

• Results oriented with a proven track record of delivering on time and on budget.

• Ability to lead a team of development professionals in a satellite location.

• Skilled in communicating audience-dependent content.

• Demonstrated creative problem-solving, resource allocation and sourcing, long-term planning, and development of project management processes and systems.

• Demonstrated financial accountability delivering toward established financial objectives.

• A passion for technology and software development methodology.

• Spectacular communication skills

Salary based on experience

Job type: Full-time

Industry: Information Technology

This position, Development Manager - Malaga, was posted on March 21, 2010. The job is located in Malaga. Since this job has been published, it has been viewed 108 times.