Manager Software Engineering - User Interface / User Experience Job

UI / UX Software Engineering Manager needed for a direct-hire opportunity with Yoh's client located in Columbia SC.

The Big Picture - Top Skills Should You Possess:

- Experience managing a team of Software Engineers
- Advanced knowledge and mastery of web based technologies

What You'll Be Doing:

- Manages large-scale engineering projects by defining project scope, methodologies, and deliverables; providing leadership in project planning and technical design; estimating and obtaining resources; developing schedules; assigning work to technical staff members and coordinating work assignments; and reviewing and monitoring progress and results.
- Analyzes project results and adjusts assigned resources to maintain engineering goals and milestones.
- Manages the User Experience / User Interface implementation of new features and maintenance of existing features.
- Manages the implementation of new features and maintenance of existing features for integration with cloud providers for information storage and management.
- Provides progress reports to management.
- Ensures and enforces consistent usage of design methodologies.
- Manages a team of engineers and other technical staff by determining staffing needs, obtaining appropriate corporate approvals, interviewing candidates, and making hiring decisions. Promotes and facilitates training and professional development of staff. Coaches and counsels staff on career development. Prepares and delivers performance counseling and reviews and makes salary recommendations. Makes disciplinary recommendations and executes policies as appropriate. Provides technical leadership to staff.
- Continuously learns new skills, engineering methodologies and approaches, and technologies and helps to integrate them into engineering efforts.
- Works with third party development teams when necessary to deliver required functionality. Is able to negotiate functional development, schedules, costs, quality, testing and obtain deliverables that meet the expectations of the company. Must be able to establish statement of works, contracts and firm deliverables from third party development teams.
- Translates broad, strategic directives and initiatives into tactical, operational activities.
- Provides input to management on long-term technology and staffing needs.

What You Need to Bring to the Table:

- 5+ years managing a team of software engineers
- Advanced knowledge of technologies, product engineering methodologies, and programming languages that are relevant, specifically AngularJS, HTML5/CSS3, Javascript, Adobe Flex/ActionScript, C, C++, php
- Experience with vendors and remote organizations is required
- RESTful API experience is required
- Advanced knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of product engineering and project management
- Proven knowledge of User Interface technologies and the ability to map the functional and performance software requirements into these technologies.
- Proven ability to lead a team of technical staff members to the successful delivery of a software product.
- Ability to work effectively with senior management in the development of strategic objectives and long-range plans
- Strong technical skills which include a thorough understanding of application design, data communications, and user interface design
- Demonstrated ability to manage teams on complex projects.
- BE/BS preferred in computer engineering/science or related technical field (ME/MS or Ph.D. is a plus)

What's In It For You?

- Chance to work in a high-impact, technical role where you will be part of a team supporting a cutting edge application and platform.

What are you waiting for? Apply Now!

Recruiter: Erwin deGuzman

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Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process.

J2W: ENG ; J2W: INFOTECH

Ref: 1055788

Branch: IT & Telecom