Senior Manager Software Engineering
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Cox Automotive is hiring for an experienced Senior Manager of Software Engineering with at least 6 years of engineering management experience and prior engineering experience for our Digital Retail Partner Solutions group in Dallas, TX.

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Team Overview:

Cox Automotive Inc. offers the chance to do your best work and lead the digital revolution of the auto industry. Our Engineering professionals are energetic influencers who have built a world-class software platform, for auto dealers, from the ground up. Collaboration is woven into the fabric of everything we do; from 24-hour Hackathons to sprint reviews and scrum teams, you'll be immersed in an environment that nurtures individualism, creative problem-solving, and intellect.

Digital Retail delivers premium-quality solutions for the digital retail and sale of automobiles. The scrum teams are routinely challenged to balance the need to customization against feature enhancement and core product work.

Job Overview:

The Senior Manager, Software Development is responsible for supporting multiple scrum teams in the successful creation and delivery of software products to the marketplace. The Manager is an Engineering leader who effectively guides and builds teams to be successful. They are responsible for ensuring the morale, productivity, and overall health of the scrum teams continues to improve over time. Additionally, they will be responsible for project oversight, process improvement identification and implementation, risk mitigation, budget management, and hiring.

Your Role:

* Works directly with individual contributors to mentor them in advancing their role-specific skills and careers. Optimizes overall team performance, by coaching individual team members


* Conceives team structure and constantly seeks opportunities to adjust team structure to maximize agility and efficiency


* Plan and execute projects based on the product development pipeline


* Contribute creatively to the product development pipeline


* Establish a fun, creative and enjoyable environment balanced with strong collaboration and productivity


* Present issues and risks, and their business impact to management in a timely manner with proposed mitigation. Actively seeks and removes impediments to team success regardless of where they originate


* Human resource contributions associated with the team, including recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, and coaching


* Collaboration across multiple business units and functional departments to develop and deploy solutions that address key business initiatives


* Adherence to departmental process and procedure


* Continuously improves software development productivity, quality, predictability, and team morale


* Ensure delivery of the highest quality service



Engineering acumen:

* Previous work experience as an engineer and/or ability to articulate deep technical understanding


* Experience developing or leading the development of:


* Web based, Cloud Native, and E-Commerce applications


* SAAS


* API leveraged architecture models



Management acumen:

* 6 years management experience leading software development teams


* Strategizing re-prioritization of Scrum team deliverables with Product and Engineering tradeoffs


* Servant Leadership and Performance management of multiple scrum teams concurrently


* Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile or SCRUM based methodology


* Ability to create clear goals and foster accountability/ownership



Business acumen:

* Experience with business drivers and metrics in E-Commerce and API environments.


* User-centric E-commerce product experience preferred


* Experience collaborating with Product Management organizations and across Executive leadership


* Background in program management in a high growth company


* Experience managing project portfolios


* Ability to diagnose and resolve problems independently with creative approaches


* Skilled in balancing risk with time-to-market objectives



What we look for:

* Bachelor's degree is recommended and a Masters degree in a related field is desired


* Effective communicator both verbal and written