Software Development Team Lead/Supervisor

at  Verizon

WHEN YOU JOIN VERIZON

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.
Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimising and revolutionising the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient and more productive. With more than 3,500 dedicated employees in 15 countries, we deliver leading mobile technology platforms and solutions.
As a SAAS leader, we know our talent is the most important component to our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon, we combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

You will be leading one of our cross functional software development teams, and have the responsibility to grow and develop your team, its members, and help it achieve success in delivering components for our award winning SAAS Fleet Management product, Reveal. The successful candidate will be working out of our Florence office in a hands-on capacity and will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined squad in an agile environment.

You will be a leader in a very dynamic and successful team, continuously adapting & improving our methodologies and technologies to stay the best in what we are doing: providing innovative fleet tracking software to SMBs and enterprise customers all around the world! A deep understanding of software architecture, platforms, and paradigms are essential for this role.

• Build high performing teams of innovative software professionals by mentoring, coaching and developing internal talent and recruiting industry top talent.
• Manage the personnel on your team. We expect a Development Manager to lead by example in every area, none more so than in the hands on development of our people and our products
• Remove impediments to ease the development path. Drive down the cycle time from idea to customer value.
• Champion innovation, technical excellence, process, and quality in your team.
• Be a decision maker and ensure your team comes on the journey once a decision is made.
• Lead a Cross Functional Team (CFT): you will need to be comfortable with code on multiple platforms, business requirements, deployments, and testing
• Be the primary contact for stakeholders and foster relationships outside of your direct squad.
• Collaborate with architecture to ensure we are building the right solution, the right way
• Advocate for and evangelise your team within the organisation
• Ensure appropriate engineering resourcing is in place to deliver the business needs.