Manager – Software Engineer

Job title: Manager – Software Engineer

Company: McCain Foods

Job description: ​Position Title: Manager – Software EngineerPosition Type: Regular – Full-Time ​Position Location: Florenceville GTCRequisition ID: 29240​​Position SummaryThe Manager – Software Engineering will be responsible for providing technical leadership and managing a team of skilled engineers to build and deliver high-quality software solutions. This role’s technical expertise will be essential in driving the team towards meeting project goals, maintaining code quality, following software development best practices, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.A key accountability of this position is to deliver high quality and performant solutions with a robust design that incorporates best practices for efficiency, scalability, reusability, and resiliency.The Manager – Software Engineering will partner with Enterprise Architects, Solution and Data Architects, Cyber Security Architects, business stakeholders, and vendors to successfully build solutions to enable McCain’s Analytics and AI strategy.Duties and responsibilitiesLead, mentor, and motivate a team of software engineers to achieve individual and team objectives.Provide technical direction and guidance to the team, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote a culture of code quality and excellence.Serve as a liaison between engineering, product management, and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment of goals and priorities.Champion agile development methodologies and practices within the team, ensuring efficient and iterative delivery of software solutions.Define strategies to improve the efficiency and resiliency of developed software solutions.Work with cross-functional teams to understand, frame, and coordinate implementation of data products.Participate in project core team meetings to discuss status, risks, and mitigation strategies across delivery teams.Enforce adherence to best practices to build high quality code that guarantees efficient and high performing solutions.Oversee the development and maintenance of API-led and event-driven solutions, including API design, data mapping, transformation, and orchestration.Enforce Quality Engineering best practices.Identify and mitigate risks that may impact the success of software projects, such as technical dependencies, resource constraints, or changing requirements.Manage team’s capacity to ensure effective delivery of solutions as per commitments.Ensure compliance with established data governance and security policies.Provide guidance and support to team members in their professional development and career growth.Manage objectives, priorities, and performance of direct reports.QualificationsEducationBachelor or Masters in Computer Science, Information Management, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience.Work ExperienceAt least 7 years of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with business stakeholders in support of departmental and/or multi-departmental data initiatives.Demonstrated experience as technical lead in large software development projects using modern tools and technologies.Hands-on experience designing and building software products.Experience providing technical guidance and leading teams of software engineers.Hands-on programming skills with Python, Java, or C#, etc.Experience working with data platforms to deliver analytics solutions.Proven experience in Agile software product development with distributed virtual teams.Multi-year experience building and implementing software solutions using DevOps and CI/CD practices.Experience building integrations for SAP Hana, Salesforce, Databricks, and Azure data platforms is considered highly beneficial.Technical knowledge, Abilities, and skillsAbility to communicate effectively with technical and functional team members in addition to business stakeholders.Deep understanding of modern software development practices, technologies, and techniques.Strong understanding of data governance, data stewardship, data quality, data privacy, and data security.Ability to work across multiple environments and source data systems in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid.Understanding of data domains in AgTech, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Finance, HR is an asset.Familiarity with databases and analytics technologies in the industry, including Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL and Relational Databases.Innovative, curious with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.Strong focus on delivery through collaboration with team members cross functions.Able to collaborate with both the business and IT teams to define the business problem and refine the requirements for application integration initiatives.Flexibility to balance competing initiatives, multi-task between project development and customer support, and adapt to changing business and technical requirements.Good judgment, a sense of urgency, and commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and business integrity.Strong drive to stay current with industry best practices and trends on application integration technologies.Others:Direct reports: YesTravel: 10%McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.Your privacy is important to us. 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Division: Global Technology
Department: ​Global Data and Solutions ​
Location(s): CA – Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-BristolCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)

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Location: Florenceville-Bristol, NB

Job date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:47:30 GMT

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