Director of Software Development

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Job Description:

Varec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is looking for a Director of Software Development. Varec, Inc. is considered the pioneer of inventory tank gauging instrumentation and offers 93 years of service, tracking over 4,000,000,000 gallons of fuel annually, in supporting of over 3,000 airfields with their fuel management product

Today, Varec is a worldwide leader in fuels management systems for total asset visibility and control, supplying integrated hardware and software solutions to oil and gas, defense and aviation markets. The Varec FuelsManager suite of product solutions has been a longtime standard of major oil companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as aviation tank farm operators and service providers. With its headquarters and manufacturing facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Varec also has offices in Virginia, Australia and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit .

The Director of Software Development will direct application architecture requirements and deployment in cloud environments for Varec products and solutions. This position will lead Agile teams of individuals to design, develop, deploy and maintain quality applications on schedule and within budget. Responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing the development/unit testing across the entire suite of Varec applications. The Director of Software Development will manage members of the development and testing teams to deliver quality products

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for hiring, developing, and training talented, creative and innovative development resources
Establish and enforce the tools, techniques, principles and practices of the development department
Fosters and maintains highly effective internal partnerships with all departments including IT, Infrastructure, Product Management, Software Quality Assurance and different business units
Execute action items resulting from Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions to avoid future production defects
Provide business, data, application and technology consulting in pre-feasibility and feasibility discussions with IT team members and business partners
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development teams for project level architectures and design work
Lead the technical review component of vendor software package evaluation projects
Translate business requirements into functional service designs and create service models along with supporting technical documentation
Identify opportunities to reuse enterprise technology services
Promote the use of innovative techniques and technologies that will provide benefits to Varec. Lead the introduction of new technologies as well as leveraging enterprise capabilities
Provide a software development plan that meets the future needs of our customers and markets based on new and innovative techniques and technologies
Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
As a senior leader within Varec, embrace and enable the Varec core values Promote, plan, communicate, and implement employee engagement activities within and across departments/teams that influence a positive work environment
Drive differentiation into the organization to create long-term competitive advantage
Support the long-term growth strategy, vision, and mission
Achieve or exceed Annual Operating Plan objectives

COMPETENCIES

Excellent analytical, problem-solving and project management skills
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects
Ability to define, structure and plan work independently
Proven cross-functional relationship building skills
Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management
Pro-active leadership style
The successful candidate will have related multiple years of hands-on experience of supporting Commercial Cloud Services such as AWS and Azure.
Knowledge of cloud based production application infrastructure and processes (AWS or Azure, DevOps, micro services, containerization, security, networking, load balancing, replication, disaster recovery, etc.)
Working knowledge of the design and implementation of Application Architecture using cloud native and data warehousing principles and of Java, C#, XML, HTML, Java Script, React, SQL Server Database, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka and Spark
Strong knowledge and experience in Agile development methodologies and in effectively leading Agile development teams
Strong Background in SecDevOps

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor s Degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent experience +5 years of Software Development experience
Minimum 8 years of supervisory experience leading development efforts in software development or related position, experience managing medium and large project/development teams
Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle including but not limited to architecting solutions, designing applications, coding, unit testing and implementing utilizing a variety of tools and technologies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Masters in Computer Science or other relevant field
Knowledge for Agile frameworks and implementation of Agile Methodologies to multiple teams in large-scale enterprise change projects & programs. Experience should include coaching and enabling scrum team members.
Demonstrated understanding of IT infrastructure tools, processes and practices, including Cloud resource provisions, deployment, microservices, and DevOps

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