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## Senior Manager, Platform DevelopmentApply: US - MI - Remote: Full time: Posted Today: JR116623**Job Description**Sr Manager of Platform Development, partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Sr Manager will oversee a platform engineering team(s) building on our Learning Management Platform and related shared services where our full-time students go to school every day.**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:** Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.● Partner with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products;● Interface with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies;● Commit to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction;● Align technology to business strategy, and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization;● Adopt a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institute a frequent release cadence;● Manage a team consisting of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers. Oversee both fulltime and contract resources;● Lead and mentor engineering team members;● Have an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provide thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.**Supervisory Responsibilities:** *Directly supervises 7 - 15 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.***MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:**● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND● Six (6) years’ proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND● Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR● An equivalent combination of education and experience**Certificates and Licenses**: None required.**OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:**· Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders· Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations· Full commitment to customer satisfaction· Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions· Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget· Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development· Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance· Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing· Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS· Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices· Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment· Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills· Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns· Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively· Experience working with offshore and distributed teams* Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.· Ability to travel 5% of the time· Ability to clear required background check**DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:**● Five (5) years working on and/or leading Agile teams● Five (5) years of broad knowledge of Java● Three (3) years experience with Angular● Two (2) years of experience with AWS● One (1) year of experience building Progress Web Apps (PWA)● One (1) year of experience with Polymer or Stencil● Experience with the following: Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, MyBatis, Hibernate, ActiveMQ, Angular, Backbone, ExtJS, Ionic, Oracle, Postgres, Neo4j, NodeJs, React, Python, MongoDB and Redis**Compensation & Benefits:** Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.* We anticipate the salary range to be $113,073.75- $165,000.00. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.**WORK ENVIRONMENT:** The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.· This is a remote position.**The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.** #J-18808-Ljbffr

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