Associate Director-Software Development
Verizon
When you join Verizon
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.
What you’ll be doing...
Verizon is looking for a dynamic and talented leader for managing and leading the SOE platform which will be a single automated cloud platform for multiple technology and product teams across TPD.. SOE Cloud platform will enable autonomy and reduce time to market by enabling service catalog for developer to build infrastructure and deploy code and impose security at first by embedding security best practices and governance in Platform & PipelinesOne of the top goal is to have scalable and reliable workload and infrastructure management and deployment along with self recovery of infrastructure failures.
Leading a development team of high performing individuals.
Performing the Performance management, Motivate and elevate the team's results.
Guiding and coaching the team catering to individual career aspirations and setting measurable goals for them.
Understanding the big picture and connecting the dots for the team members creatively.
Grooming the team members on their growth path & ensuring the constant learning and knowledge growth in the team
Leading employees to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality, continuous improvement, and goal accomplishment.
Performing risk analysis, impact analysis and deviation, if any and address gaps if any to ensure delivery of quality code.
Defining & implementing process improvements and empowering the team to reach higher goals
Working with distributed development teams globally and maintaining a traceability matrix.
Delegating responsibilities and decisions to help empower people and teams.
Working closely with external teams to define release content and ensure growth of the platform to meet competitive demands.
Leading and mentoring engineering web and application programming interface teams through software platform releases, ensuring products are on spec, architecturally sound, and delivered on time.
Supporting customers with major platform issues and coordinating triage efforts to solve them.
Documenting and maintaining architectural guidance to ensure performance and scalability of the platform.
Adhering to industry standards and best practices and understanding emerging technologies and trends to continuously improve the systems, application, infrastructure, and processes.
Facilitating continuous testing and quality assurance practices to maintain high standards of software delivery.
Championing a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging and implementing feedback loops in development processes.
What we’re looking for...
You get excited by the possibilities that technology creates and how it can improve the way we do business. Applying your analytical skills and expertise to solve complex problems is personally rewarding. With strong written and verbal communication abilities, you’re able to cut through technical jargon to describe complex concepts in a way everyone can understand. People know you for your strong leadership and the way you inspire teams to perform at their best. No stranger to working in a fast-paced environment, you convey a sense of urgency and handle multiple competing priorities with ease, never missing a deadline.
You’ll need to have:
Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
Eight or more years of relevant work experience.
Knowledge of Agile and Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
Experience on Cloud platform, AI, DevOps (e.g., AWS, Azure, DevSecops, Cloud Networking)
Experience on handling large apps using Angular, Node Js, Java, DB etc.
Experience in leading and engaging a team, mentoring others, and recruiting talent.
Good understanding of Cloud platforms
Experience in driving any org wide initiative
Ability to foresee the work in the pipeline and optimize resource utilisation effectively.
Ability to build SME knowledge in the team and set goals to the individual which will effectively utilize their individual skills.
Experience in cross skilling team members
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
A Masters degree.
PMP Certified
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
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Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.