Manager Engineering

Manager EngineeringLocation: Salt Lake City, UTThe Manager of Engineering is an energetic, passionate software leader who thrives on successfully releasing products to the market. This is achieved by demonstrating leadership behaviors consistent with NICE CXone's 4E leadership model. In addition, the Manager of Engineering will participate in the evolution of NICE CXone standards, tools and methodologies and support improved NICE CXone technology standards and strategy. The primary responsibility of this position is to lead the growth, quality and efficiency of an Engineering team while also developing team members into great leaders of behavior as well as results. The Manager of Engineering is responsible for developing and managing an Engineering team, and will be measured based on performance against both short term and long term goals.

• Provides leadership in design, delivery, and support of NICE CXone software and platforms
• Provides leadership in management and leadership behaviors including senior level communication skills and abilities consistent with the NICE CXone 4E leadership model
• Govern programs, policies and procedures that assure consistent and replicable development methods
• Govern the set of policies that establish standard development languages, tools, and methodology; documentation practices; and examination procedures for developed systems to insure alignment with overall architecture.
• Participate in project scope, schedule and cost reviews.
• Understand product capabilities and limitations.
• Identify and implement ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
• Responsible for new product software development and quality.
• Maintenance of software/bug fixes.
• Release scheduling.
• Keeps abreast of new technologies and has demonstrated knowledge and experience in various technologies.
• Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepare monthly reports outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes, and forecasts project timelines.
• Provide leadership to individuals on team(s) through coaching, feedback, development goals, and performance management.
• Prioritize employee career development in an effort to grow NICE CXone's internal pipeline of leadership talent
• Prioritize, assign and manage department activities and projects in accordance with the department's goals and objectives. Adjust hours of work, priorities and staff assignments to ensure efficient operation, based on workload.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required.
• 8+ years of individual contributor software development experience.
• 8+ years experience "living" with various operating systems, development tools and development methodologies including Java, C#, Python, NodeJS, Javascript, ASP.Net, etc. and an understanding of many modern horizontal scaling technologies available from AWS, Azure, Apache or others.
• Idea generation and creativity in this position is a must, as are the ability to work with deadlines, manage and complete projects on time and within budget.
• Proven history of delivering on deadlines/releases without compromising quality.
• Mastery of engineering concepts and core technologies: development models, programming languages, databases, testing, and documentation.
• Development experience with Web API Services, Microservices, Shared Libraries and related technologies is recommended.
• Experience with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies.
• Proven track record of delivering high quality software products.
• A solid engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of product design, life cycle, software development practices, and support services. Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development methodologies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Business Management preferred.
• Relevant certifications also preferred among other indications of someone who values continuing education.

• Experience building horizontally scalable solutions leveraging containers, microservices, Big Data technologies among other related technologies.
• Experience working with user interface design tools, and libraries and/or user experience design using UML or other methodologies.
• Experience working with object-oriented software development, web service APIs, web development or other similar technical products.
• Experience with telephony, networking, hosted applications, or other similar technical products.
• Telecommunications experience with IVR applications or telephony apps.
• Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing and integration testing.
• Experience working on open-source software projects for Apache and other great open-source software organizations.
• Demonstrable experience training and leading teams as a great people leader.