Group Manager

JiBe, a dynamic SaaS B2B product company, is seeking a highly skilled Group Manager to lead and manage its Global Software Development Department.

Position - Group Manager ( Platform Group)

Responsibilities -

• Become the manager for a group of 3-5 teams addressing their personal and professional needs as well as participate in analysis, architecture and design efforts related to the solution alongside architects.
• Spearhead the architecture and implementation of all cross-team software infrastructure: client server both, libraries and services, development guidelines and implementation of generic sub-systems, on the cloud and on-premises. This role does not include ownership over the DevOps and IT teams.
• Recruit and build self-organizing agile teams as well as implement career development and personal growth plans and enhance the team members’ technical proficiency level and soft skills.
• Drive improvements to the group’s development methodologies and processes while also contributing to the improvement of the entire organization.
• Manage and drive execution and the day-to-day activities of the group. Assume complete ownership over the group’s products, their quality as well as the production environment and operational requirement.

Qualifications -

• A person who encompasses technical skills alongside business and customer understanding, an open mind and creativity alongside the ability to conduct research and development.
• A minimum of 10 years of software development experience as a software engineer and an engineering manager.
• A minimum of 6 years developing with Node.js, C# or Java and preferably also Angular 2+
• A minimum of 4 years’ experience with large scale and high-performance distributed systems
• High technical proficiency, infrastructure-oriented and preferably with experience building infrastructure for large scale distributed systems for medium to large size organizations.
• Indirectly managed at least 3 engineering teams (managed team managers) with a minimum of 20 group members for a minimal consecutive period of 4 years.
• Substantial experience and ability for prioritizing, planning, driving and managing execution plans.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proactive, independent, mature, self-driven and works well with minimal supervision as part of a diverse team
• Proficiency in verbal and written English communication
• Experience collaborating with international managers and colleagues.