Senior Manager Software Development

at  SITA Switzerland Sarl

ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM:

Do you want to work with amazing Teams who deliver new solutions in Air Travel on cutting edge technology?
You will help to direct, plan and coordinate activities, while working alongside and collaborating with teams and team members. It’s a combination (and juggling) of people management, project management and technical knowledge with the aim of delivering the right products and services, in the right way, at the right time.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• You will work with software engineers, test automation engineers, solution architects, UX Designers, and other members of our ‘full practice’ DevOps teams to assess risks or dependencies and make decisions to move forward.
• Have meaningful conversations with the technology teams, empowering them to do the right things and facilitating technical decision making. Making technical decisions where necessary.
• Provide performance management for all the members of your team, helping them achieve more than they could have without your support
• Maintains overall accountability for multiple mediums to large-scale development, implementation, and maintenance projects that have a significant cross-functional business impact ensuring the solution(s) developed can sustain the long-term goals of the business.
• Intimately know your products, their roadmaps as well as their customers.
• Understand the associated costs for developing and maintaining your product areas, taking responsibility and accountability for ensuring the product costs are optimized in relation to the PnL for the product.
• Work very closely with the business leaders for your product areas, securing strategic visions ad ensuring that the technology vision and execution for the product supports business strategy.
• Assume responsibility for the E2E solution development, deployment and operational readiness, working cross organizational domain to ensure success.
• Identify optimizations from technology, people and process perspectives and taking responsibility and accountability for executing the optimizations for their product areas.
• Define the staffing needs of your projects and work with the Director to transform those into budgets interlocked with our Product Team
• Champion best practices for your team so they can deliver in the right way, both from an engineering and an agile perspective.
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