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Job Description

Supervise an agile software development team(s) in delivering scalable cloud applications, services, and solutions on time, with high quality while fostering a culture of engagement with an environment conducive to innovation and career development.

· Own engagement and employee belonging. Create positive culture of a high performing team founded on psychological safety and transparency.

· Engage in a career development discussion with each direct report resulting in 1-3 meaningful development goals to support growth in current role and/or longer-term career progression.

· Conducts performance reviews, recommends candidates for promotion, and manages performance improvement plans as necessary.

· Manages recruiting efforts to fill individual positions and selects candidates with the right skills and demeanor for hire.

Orchestrate the delivery of all milestones, releases, and tech debt reduction by working collaboratively across all disciplines.

· Ensure CI/CD and SDLC governance: best practices are followed, tech debt is reduced, high quality releases are among the key performance indicators.

· Embrace Always On development mindset and continuously focus on performance, resiliency, reliability, availability, and security.

· Understand product roadmap (the why), Customer impact of the “what”. Works in partnership with Product Management to achieve product delivery goals.

· Participate in creating Engineering roadmap based on product vision and technical stack.

· Responsible for reviewing cost/benefit analyses of design alternatives and collaborates with technical staff before selecting final design.

· Continuous identification and implementation of improvements to the development process

· Help scrum teams in resolving impediments that are outside their sphere of control. Help reduce dependencies and effectively manage them when necessary.

· Incident response management. Drive short- and long-term solutions with RCAs to guarantee root cause resolution.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree or experience

· 5+ years of experience leading Agile teams delivering 24/7 high available and scalable cloud solutions and services.

· 5+ years people management experience with proven track record of creating positive high performing culture and advancing career growth for direct reports.

· Coaches less-experienced staff members in a mentor-type relationship

· Superb communications skills! Communicates departmental and project strategies within area of influence. Communicates in a professional manner when interacting with less-experienced staff, peers, senior staff, and internal or external customers.

· Strong organizational, planning, and execution skills. Ability to build and foster collaborative relationships across disciplines and work hand in hand to ensure product delivery goals.

· Demonstrates the ability to actively listen to others. Ability to influence, facilitate team discussions with different opinions, and focus the teams on achieving their goals.

· Prepares and conducts presentations for various user areas and staff levels, including senior management.

· Works with other work units and acts together toward common goals.

· Fosters an environment in which others are encouraged to be innovative and are rewarded for innovation.

· Strong technical background and deep understanding of the technology stack. Microsoft Azure PaaS is a plus.

· Experience in cloud development with Always On mindset that promotes performance, scalability, resiliency, reliability, availability, and security.

· Experience in SDLC governance implementing CI/CD as a development methodology.

· Demonstrates problem solving skills and ability to help team breakdown complexity into manageable tasks.

Preferred experience with 1 or more of the following tech stack:

• Azure

• C#/.NET

• SQL Server

• REST API

• React.JS

Benefits:

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave . Full details of our benefits are available - https://www.mywolterskluwerbenefits.com/index.html

Diversity Matters

Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Wolters Kluwer U. S. Corporation and all of its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.