Mgr Software Devel.500046

at  Scientific Games

The systems support Software Engineering Manager works on features and software support for entire jurisdictions software group. In this capacity, the manager oversees the ongoing projects for a lotteries Central Gaming System. The manager is the primary owner of all aspects of software, from insuring requirements are clear to starting to sell and cash lottery products, billing the retailers, supporting government tax reporting. New features, reports, interfaces to internal/external systems, and the people who development them are the responsibility of the manager. This is a challenging and rewarding position that is very highly respected within Scientific Games. The manager works together with the SG site operations, and Corporate QA teams, to provide all aspects of quality customer service for changes to the central gaming system. All this requires a good mix of technical skill, verbal and written communication skills, project, and personnel management.
The day-to-day job is to manage people, projects, guide software direction, review and or gather requirements, drive estimation, and deliver against those estimates.
Joining this team, you will be among peers in professional engineering and manage a team of engineers. You will report to a Director of Software Engineering. You will find these teams are made up of career minded professionals that have chosen to be in the lottery industry.
In addition to the worthy causes lottery’s fund, lottery in general has proven to perform well through recessions. Even in 2020, we experienced growth in some verticals within the lottery division

Job Duties / Key Accountabilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members as needed for completion of work items.
• Work with team members on technical and professional skills to enable career growth for team members.
• Provide plans, schedules, and status to all levels of management and customers.
• Collect and document business requirements as needed.
• Develop project schedules and monitor project progress in conjunction with senior management.
• Assist all software engineers with hands on coding best practices and code architecture and design as needed on projects.
• Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, conflict resolution and recognition of the staff to maintain highly motivated and engaged employees.
• Demonstrate a high degree of initiative and are accountable for the timely completion of all tasks assigned to them.
• Ensure developers deliver quality work as scheduled in accordance with technical design and product requirements.
• Maintain up to date knowledge on new programming methods and technologies.
• Includes up to 10% travel.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5 years plus of management experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

WORK CONDITIONS

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.
This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Supervisory responsibilities include but are not limited to training and mentoring employees; planning, assigning, delegating and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and resolving employee issues.
Job Level Description
Supervises and assigns the work of support staff.

Job Duties / Key Accountabilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members as needed for completion of work items.
• Work with team members on technical and professional skills to enable career growth for team members.
• Provide plans, schedules, and status to all levels of management and customers.
• Collect and document business requirements as needed.
• Develop project schedules and monitor project progress in conjunction with senior management.
• Assist all software engineers with hands on coding best practices and code architecture and design as needed on projects.
• Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, conflict resolution and recognition of the staff to maintain highly motivated and engaged employees.
• Demonstrate a high degree of initiative and are accountable for the timely completion of all tasks assigned to them.
• Ensure developers deliver quality work as scheduled in accordance with technical design and product requirements.
• Maintain up to date knowledge on new programming methods and technologies.
• Includes up to 10% travel.
• Other duties as assigned