Manager, Mobile Hardware Manager - Permanent - Cedar Rapids, IA - $125,000 - $135,000
The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.
The end client is unable to sponsor or transfer visas for this position; all parties authorized to work in the US without sponsorship are encouraged to apply.
Our client is seeking a Manager, Mobile Hardware Manager in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Role Description
The Manager of Mobile Software Development role is responsible for managing and leading a team of Engineering professionals. Responsible for managing and helping to prioritize their work, ensure workloads are appropriate to support business goals, drive continuous improvements focused on ensuring quality products are developed, as well as focus on the team's professional development in their current role and further progression at our clients. In addition to these core responsibilities, this role will be working with our Business Analysts to ensure the Mobile Software Development team's metrics are current and shared across the organization. This role reports to the Director, Hardware and On-Vehicle Solutions.
Work load management
Suggestions of improvement for efficiency (what are the processes we need to change for higher code quality, are we servicing our internal clients well, etc) This person is the POINT person for this team. They are the mobile development rep for any governance related issues (they do not bring developers into these types of discussions)
They will not be doing any coding. They will have a team lead that handles that along with other developers. Someone that has done development in the past (or has a development background)
Effectively manage your Mobile Software Development team to achieve workloads
and efficiency that will meet business goals.
Resource planning
Take an agile approach to workload planning using tools such as JIRA
administratively.
Work in collaboration with the Mobile Software Development Team Lead on
Retrospectives
Sprint planning
Backlog grooming
Roadmap planning
Reporting
Story Definition -in coordination with the Product Management Team
Managing priority of tasks
Work closely with Professional Services, Product Management, Sales, and
Marketing to define detailed solutions for sales opportunities.
Manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across various product areas.
Close and consistent interaction with the System Integration and Test Team
Coordinate cross-functionally with other Team Managers to develop comprehensive
solutions for our customers with a focus on the end user, quality, longevity, and
market trends.
Utilize industry best practices to challenge current processes and ensure that all
Development work is delivered with high standards of quality.
Assist with ad hoc requests and take on required initiatives related to improving
efficiency and quality of work across the "design and build" cycle.
Coach, support, guide, and direct your Mobile Software Development team. This will include:
Talent reviews and personnel development plans
Managing all Mobile Software Development metrics and monitoring the performance of these key metrics.
Keeping up on training and use of new tools and technologies to be leveraged in development.
Lead in talent acquisition systems and processes, including recruitment activities and decisions on selections.
Identify and nurture talent within the team for future leadership roles.
Collaborate with the team to drive, develop, and execute innovation in our current products and solutions.
Establish and communicate performance expectations.
Identify performance gaps and monitor performance to ensure development plans are met.
Ensure fair and equal treatment of employees, avoiding favoritism, addressing difficult issues (with assistance from Human Resources), and practices empathy and compassion.
Promote Company policies, procedures, mission, and values by training and
providing direction to direct reports in their use and application.
Skills & Requirements
Bachelors degree in related field nice to have (not required) combined with 3-5 years people management experience (managing a team of developers). In this role, they will managing 7 possibly grow to 8. This includes a Team Lead. They should have experience professionally developing employees for career growth. They should be highly proficient in creating comprehensive solutions.
If lacking the degree, should have 5+ years exp in managing. Not interested in those that have managed very large teams.
Past background in .NET CORE, C# Development OR embedded development w/in Windows or Linux. They must have written in low level code (avoid individuals that have a mobile background in web/smart phone- this is not applicable)
AI Development expertise (including CoPilot and Claude -they have enterprise licenses for both). If they have never used AI to code assist they will not be considered. They need to understand how the work flow works so they can instruct their team on how it works.
Proficient in MS Office Suite, knowledge of automation testing, regression.
Embedded systems development -someone that is coded for hardware would be ideal
Experience or familiarity in North American Transit Industry and Agencies
Benefits/Other Compensation
Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.
Why Hays?
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- Dice Id: 80144310
- Position Id: 1187071
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