Primary Responsibilities
- Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)
- Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
- Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible; raise red flags when needed and create mitigation plans
- Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting
- May meet with customers to communicate and review product features.
- Communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
- Quality leader – push for the best quality in place in processes, testing, bug management and prioritization vs feature work
- Technology Savvy - evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
- Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.
- Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.
- Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may have company-wide effect.
- May manage employees in two or more locations.
- May manage activity of two or more groups.
- Manages senior level technical professionals.
- Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
- Experience with on-prem and cloud developments
- Experience with programming languages, such as: Go, Python, React, and Angular.
- Experience with micro-service architecture.
- Experience with modern CI/CD tools and technologies.
- Proven knowledge with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration platforms
- Experience in the cyber domain – A big advantage
- Understanding of networking and security concepts and transport layer security (SSL/TLS) – A big advantage
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams
- Proven ability to deliver products with the highest quality, on time, and within budget.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Experience with QA metrics and reporting
- Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
- Demonstrated excellence in all verbal communications; feeling comfortable presenting to wide forums and senior leadership.
- Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
- Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
- Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10 % of the time spent traveling.
- Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.
Qualifications
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree
- 12+ years of software development experience
- 8+ years of development management experience
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.