Manager, Software Engineering, ProQuest d/b/a Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC, Ann Arbor, MI
Duties: Responsible for delivery of a specific product with ability to lead a small software engineering team and provide hands-on guidance in coding, architecture, and system design. Lead technical discussions, facilitate code reviews, and drive innovation. Actively involved and hands-on with writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with coding standards. Guide and review team code to ensure clean, efficient, and maintainable code. Regularly evaluate team performance, technical capabilities, provide colleague feedback, and escalate to leadership as needed. Implement design changes to improve quality, performance, cost reduction, and standardization through analysis of designs and problem-solving techniques. Define architecture of software solution. Respond to direct or indirect customer inquiries regarding function and design, and attend customer meetings. Oversee day to day operations and lead a team of colleagues. Plan, delegate and direct the team’s day-to-day work to achieve operational targets or objectives with contribution to the immediate results for the team or department. Communicate policies, practices and procedures within immediate area of responsibility to stakeholders within the team. Identify and lead team-level quality and process improvement initiatives. Provide input on staffing decisions for the team. Implement policy and procedure changes determined by leadership. Lead Scrum meetings. Implement quality frameworks, lead end of sprint and end of project retrospective meetings and provide follow up updates to leadership. May conduct interviews for job candidates. No formal hire / fire authority.
