Software Development Manager

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS196, T4, Band 7

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Serve as a trusted advisor to client leadership by offering strategic recommendations and responsive support.

- Work with the program manager and stake holders to define the technological roadmap.

- Serve as main point of contact for Development teams for cross-team collaboration within the Program, removing communication stovepipes and enhancing awareness of work in progress.

- Promote collaborative problem solving for challenges encountered during enhancements and maintenance efforts.

- Enable a relentless improvement mindset for development teams and program-wide through engaged promotion of intellectual curiosity, clarity on empowered contributors across all team members, active listening, and embracing change.

- Support the maturity of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including aligning ART activities with client objectives and fostering collaboration across teams.

- Encourage organizational alignment of the ART (Agile Release Train) with client strategy and goals, and business objectives.

- Foster collaboration among teams to facilitate flow of work, remove impediments and help to escalate issues through problem-solving actions.

- Enable internal engagement in Innovation and Planning opportunities to promote continuous improvement.

- Help manage risks, constraints, and dependencies that impact the ART's goals.

- Identify and track metrics that enable data-driven decisions and improvements.

- Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and ART Syncs.

- Provide back-up support to Scrum Masters and assist in fulfilling their duties.

- Maintain weekly communication with the client's Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure teams are operating in lockstep with one another and recognize risk areas that can be mitigated as a group

- Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization, and forecasting of the development teams to determine a development and release schedule that maximizes throughput.

- Manage, monitor and report on the capacity, utilization and forecast to optimize delivery schedules.

- Promotes a strategy with actionable, monitorable steps to enhance code quality, automation testing, adopt test driven development, shift security left, and strengthen requirements traceability.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Due to federal requirements only US Citizens who do not possess dual citizenship with another country may be considered.

Selected candidates will be required to successfully complete a government-sponsored clearance process for position of public trust prior to start.

- Bachelor's Degree.

- 7+ years of Direct Management Experience of developers.

- Experienced in guiding and supporting developers across several Scrum teams to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices and delivery goals.

- Proficient in M...