Software Engineering Manager, IMP Software

• This is a management first role which is broadly hands off, but benefits from a robust technical background
• The successful candidate will be a capable systems thinker with a proven record of guiding high performing teams, growing people, and delivering initiatives

Desirable

• IMP Software is seeking a Software Development Manager to guide roughly eight developers across multiple delivery squads
• Interview, hire, and onboard developers to your teams
• Provide ongoing performance management for team members, using defined processes to assess skills and working to develop growth plans
• Challenge team members to think about established ideas in new ways
• Advocate for the company vision, aligning the team around a view of the future
• Manage well-being of team members, considering personal needs and goals
• Enhancing employee engagement and ways of working, empowering employees and supporting their health and wellbeing
• Facilitate the professional development of team members in line with their career goals and organisational requirements
• Ensure team members are empowered to appropriately prioritise growth and skills development
• Guide the delivery of projects and initiatives in partnership with Product Owners and Delivery Team Leads
• Facilitate the planning and estimation of projects and initiatives
• Facilitate the refinement of deliverables and ensure governance mechanisms for initiatives are in place
• Facilitate Product and Engineering in developing a shared understanding of the domain
• Ensure delivery teams have effective channels of communication with stakeholders
• Coach delivery teams in becoming self-organising through a process of guided continuous improvement
• Ensure visual management methods are correct and useful to the team
• Ensure effective change control processes for your teams
• Guide continuous improvement for your teams, for example through retrospectives
• Partner with delivery teams to identify and respond to operational metrics reflective of a healthy system
• Maintain an awareness of industry and domain trends, surfacing insights and opportunities for the team
• Ensure processes and technology are well documented and understood by the team
• Partner with Product and Test professionals to ensure quality assurance
• Drive rapid feedback cycles and ownership of outcomes within your area
• Ensure psychological safety within your teams, and effective interpersonal relationships
• Ensure positive development experience for everybody involved in the workflow
• Assess the capabilities of your teams and implement capability development projects
• Capture and report on key performance metrics within your area, within the framework of the department goals as well as locally
• Guide the creation and delivery of objective key results (OKRs) within your area
• Facilitate communities of practice to address specific areas of interest within the team