• Acquiring and allocating resources

• Managing personnel development

• Managing advancement and deployment of specific disciplines and technologies

• Actively participating in the engineering process

  The Manager performs the following functions, in addition to others, in the

  administration of their position:

• Allocates resources based on requests fromScrum teams

• Validates resource utilization to assure efficient deployment of team members

• Leads a team of software engineers and/or architects to be effective in the design

  and development of software applications and systems per business demands and

  requirements

• Manages a team of individual contributors to complete necessary work as requested

  by Scrum teams. Assigns duties and is accountable for achievement of departmental

  objectives by all subordinates. Selects employees and evaluates performance.

  Provides ongoing employee development to ensure efficient operation of the

  function. Guides development staff in promoting high performance culture and cost

  effectiveness across the entire team. Specific activities associated with this area of

  responsibility are:

    •     Conducts one-on-one meetings weekly to understand how their direct report is

           doing, any problems they are encountering, any roadblocks or issues they 

            need help with, how they are doing on their Scrum team, etc. In other words,

            engage the employee and see what advice, counsel help, feedback, or

            encouragement they need

    •    Meets regularly with members of the Scrum teams to get feedback on the

          performance of their direct report and any areas for improvement

    •    Regularly sits in on Scrum meetings to directly observe their direct reports in

          their working environment and provide feedback on their observations

    •    Promotes sharing of domain expertise and knowledge across the team

    •    Provides technical leadership and expertise about the feature set or domain

          supported by their team

    •    Provides counsel to their direct reports regarding career development

    •    Represents their direct reports in discussions about prospective moves, future

         assignments, career opportunities, etc.

    •   Shares information about the company, the industry, the department, major

         initiatives, etc., and addresses related questions

• Supports their manager by leading special projects and/or providing input regarding

   possible process improvements, organization changes, resource needs, etc.

• Serves as technology advisor to the business on all aspects of software technology

   trends and novel solutions specific to their respective domain or feature set. Stay

   on the top of the latest technological progress and use this knowledge to ensure

    company products and software solutions remain marketable and competitive.

• Maintains hands-on technical expertise by making technical contributions to the

   software design, development and integration of applications and systems through

    the Scrum team construct

• Uses independent judgment to develop strategic vision within their specific feature

   set or domain

• Implements operational policies and directives

• May be required to handle level II technical support calls after hours a few times a

   year. If there is an after-hours call, it will go to the level I developer first and then

   if they are not able to solve it, they can reach out to the level II developer to assist.

Qualifications