Manager, Software Engineering I

• Participates in the interview and hiring process. Prepares and administers annual reviews and development plans, makes promotion and salary recommendations. Responsible for personnel planning and the allocation of team members to meet Enterprise Development project needs. Identifies and mentors future leaders / managers for company growth.
• Provides support and assistance to several agile development teams and their scrum masters. Has strong working knowledge of agile development principles. Helps to remove roadblocks that agile teams are unable to solve by themselves.
• Provides input to product owners on the product strategy and vision. Gives feedback to the product owners on the content and prioritization of the product backlog.
• Builds relationships with other IT departments and business units and mitigates conflict to facilitate inter-department communication and agile team progress in order to meet business objectives. Acts as a catalyst for change to improve applications or processes which benefit IT and/or the business unit.
• Demonstrates application knowledge and understands functionality of applications outside their area of expertise to identify potential impacts and make recommendations to minimize the impacts. Responds to questions from other IT departments and business units and coordinates resolution of critical issues to provide support for production applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer related discipline - Preferred
• 7 years of experience in Related field.
• 2 years of experience in supervisory, management, project leadership, or project management. Live the Paychex Values
• Act with uncompromising integrity.
• Provide outstanding service and build trusted relationships.
• Drive innovation in our products and services and continually improve our processes.
• Work in partnership and support each other.
• Be personally accountable and deliver on commitments.
• Treat each other with respect and dignity.