Work closely with the company business leads as-well as various customers clarity and focus to the R&D team members with respect to the incoming business needs, priorities and effort assessments.
Lead and facilitate technical / architecture design and discussions.
Oversee the execution and adapt to on-going changes of the R&D software program releases under tight budget, scope and timeline constraints.
Modernize the organizations methodology and execution including leveraging and advancing AGILE/SCRUM/KANBAN as-well as modern application lifecycle tools with the organization.
Lead and enable the R&D teams to succeed via empowerment and coaching.
Build, set goals and manage the technical skill-sets of all R&D members, such that the members continuously improve.
Define organizational-wide KPIs, goals and internal plans to meet the KPI goals.
Requirements:
At least 3+ years as a R&D Manager (developers and QA) in the IT domain.
Hands-on experience and highly savvy with C#/.NET, Delphi, SQL and modern web technologies.
3+ years of practical experience working with Agile/Scrum, preferably as an R&D Agile /Scrum champion within the organization. CSM A plus.
Experience in budget management.
Highly proactive and independent personality with the ability to drive multiple actions forward simultaneously.
Experience in managing risks and mitigations.
Ability to generate crystal-clear top-bottom project status reports.
Savvy with various R&D tools, such as bug-tracking and customer incident reporting and program life-cycle management tools (e.g., Sales-Force, Jira).
High communication and presentation skills to various types of stakeholders, including the ability to generate executive managem.