Software Development Manager

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Have you been playing in the Internet space - building enterprise class transactional and interactive web sites that take millions of hits? We’re changing the paradigms at FNZ and need YOU to help make that happen!FNZ’s Product and Technology team is looking for experienced, high-octane, passionate, skilled, results oriented technology leaders to lead development teams working on new products, capabilities and features for a world class wealth management platform. There are leadership positions available in Chiasso, Switzerland, Brno, Czech Republic, Shanghai, China, Wellington, NZ and Delhi, India. You will manage a product development team that will design and develop some of the key products and/or components of the FNZ platform.Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced environment with business, product managers and designers to add new exciting features to the site or improve existing features.
• Lead, manage and motivate the development team to deliver on aggressive goals with timely delivery and good quality.
• Work with product management, QA and other development teams to manage dependencies and work towards a common goal.
• Be a mentor, technical leader and thought leader for a talented team of engineers, challenging them and helping them grow.
• Look for continuous improvement in productivity and quality.
• Track business impact of features on a regular basis, and rely on performance data to make informed decisions about possible changes or improvements.
• Bring innovation to the table that helps in improving user experience areas you are responsible for, sell your ideas and be part of the change.
• Estimate development effort, plan implementation, track progress, provide status to leadership and support product releases
• Manage design, deliverables and releases to ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications and budgets; proactively identify and resolve resource conflict and set priorities for parallel projects execution
• Work with product managers on any reprioritization and impact assessments
• Contribute in strategic and financial planning to achieve technological and business objectives
• Continue to build, manage and develop a team of software engineers focused on designing and developing web portal platform and self-service capabilities

You will be partnering with leaders and engineers constantly striving to tackle technical challenges, getting user experience to the next level, and improving business metrics at FNZ.Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in managing a software development team.
• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience in building complex, scalable and high performance web applications.
• Familiarity with languages and technologies needed for web development, including C#, Javascript and CSS.
• Passion to build great user experiences
• Strong communication skills and ability to grasp and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, iterative development environment.
• Ability to partner with business units, product management and QA teams to deliver business results with agility and quality.
• Ability to motivate skilled software engineers and get the best out of them.
• Ability to hire people with right skills needed for the job.
• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high performance, high availability (24x7), large-scale web based software applications
• Experience building and managing highly effective software development teams, conducting performance reviews, making compensation decisions and recruiting talent
• Advanced technical skills including web and mobile application development, SQL/NoSQL expertise, designing and developing web services, database and application performance optimizations
• Prior open-source project experience is a plus
• Excellent command of software development life cycle activities including analysis, design, development, unit and system testing, production deployment and post-production support
• Strong time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
• Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus
• Experience in building a team and processes, conducting code reviews
• Project leadership experience, including scoping and estimating, delegation and status tracking

At FNZ, we recognize that diversity, inclusion and accessibility are important factors for our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner where all employees are valued and respected. In particular, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported thus, ensuring our recruitment process is fair and equitable for all applicants.Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure FNZ’s recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us at recruitment@fnz.co.uk to discuss specific requirements.