Our client is an industry-leading utilities provider and they have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineering Manager.  The successful candidate will be responsible for working with the Software Engineering Team Leads and their Software Engineers to implement enterprise solutions for our client, enabling new or optimising existing business practices.

Role Responsibilities:

• Design, Deliver and Support Enterprise Solutions that deliver desired business outcomes, are innovative and world class;
• Ensure this team can deliver anything the business may need now, or in the foreseeable future;
• Shape a national team into a highly engaged and enabled group with a ‘one team’ culture;
• Ensure cohesive working relationships exist with PMO, BA, Architecture, IT enablement and QA, both individually and for your reports;
• Transition the team to a DevOps operating model, uplifting their technical skills along with their work processes while attaining the necessary team culture;
• Support Team Leads to execute on plans and delivering the Software Engineering capability to the business, mentoring and acting as an escalation point for business or HR issues
• Monitor industry providers to ensure our client is positioned to most effectively leverage their solution to maximise our business outcomes.

Essential Skillset:

• Experience leading software engineering teams;
• Experience transforming software engineering teams to adapt to a DevOps operating model, with demonstrated success delivering desired business outcomes;
• Experience in managing software delivery using Scrum, Kanban and/or DevOps frameworks
• Honed stakeholder management skills and the ability to adapt, manage and work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds;
• Advanced organisational skills and the ability to manage many people and initiatives in parallel;
• Experience managing teams of people via Team Leaders;
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining a strategic view
• Experience with, and detailed understanding of major development platforms such as .NET or Java, modern application development frameworks, as well as C#;
• Experience with, and detailed understanding of, modern operational paradigms including cloud services and how they could be leveraged in new and existing software;
• Detailed knowledge and experience in the utilities industry

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, we can't wait to hear from you! Please apply by submitting your application in word format and we'll come back to you shortly to discuss the role further.

For further information about this opportunity, please email Martin Castle at TROOCOO, martin.castle@troocoo.com or call on 07 3054 1129 for a confidential discussion.