Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Development Manager to join our Product Engineering - Accounting & Tax Practice. This individual will manage and provide technical support to technical engineering team across multiple initiatives and develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle. This role also may manage budget for projects, programs or products within the practice. This position has a hybrid-based schedule (2x per week in-office), reporting to Eagan, MN or Frisco, TX.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Senior Software Development Manager, you will:
- Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organization's goals, preparing the team for scalable growth.
- Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams.
- Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling.
- Facilitate strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives.
- Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively.
- Serve as a Scrum expert, guiding teams through the Scrum framework to deliver high-quality results.
- Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements.
- Hiring and managing a team of skilled software developers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth project execution.
- Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.
Leadership Includes
- Influencing and articulating a vision for their customers and product(s).
- Socializing and aligning a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap.
- Leading through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams.
People Management Includes
- Demonstrating people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams.
- Ensuring team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s.
- Setting goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrating progress.
Sphere of Influence Includes
- Leading multiple cross-functional project teams.
- Balanced strategic and tactical focus.
- Excellent cross-functional influencer.
Delivery Includes
- Evaluating new technologies and participating in decision-making, accounting for several factors.
- Applying knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.
- Managing building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggesting improvements to the architecture.
Business Acumen Includes
- Displaying understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer.
- Applying critical, non-biased and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future.
- Ranking the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally “important” and “urgent”, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization.
About You
- Have working knowledge of .Net and Azure.
- 10-15 years of overall experience, with 5 years of management experience.