Project Lead / Manager

Key Responsibility

• Plans at a tactical level and manages the effective use of resources and directs assigned staff to develop, implement and maintain large complex system(s) and/or project(s).
• Accountable for directing staff to achieve deliverables.
• Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
• Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
• Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
• Oversee the code reviews, offer coaching and general technical guidance to the developers.
• Ability to learn and work with existing code base, make improvements where necessary and provide ongoing development and support on the existing version of the product.
• Shares and encourages others to share and use the lessons learned from project work.
• Recognizes and reinforces team successes through the project.
• Provide Technical Leadership within the application suite of services
• Develop, promote, and monitor development standards and best practices

Key Skills, Competencies and Experiences

• SAFE and/or Agile Delivery experience
• Strong technical background
• Leadership and organizational/staff development
• Resource Demand Management
• Change Management

Skills Required

• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development experience, with at least 2 years leading a team of engineers.
• Proficient English written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Comfortable speaking and interacting with technical and non-technical people
• Excellent research, analytical, and organization skills with an exceptional eye for detail
• Ability to perform work activities according to set priorities and delivery timelines
• Ability to take constructive criticism
• Ability to perform work activities for multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working in an Agile environment is an asset

MUST have

• Experience with AngularJS, Codeigniter, Laravel, ReactJS, NodeJS
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure
• Experience or knowledge of Web Security
• Experience working with JIRA is preferred
• NoSQL Database experience or knowledge
• Experience with different version control systems ex: Git, SVN, Perforce.
• Experience in managing vendor or outsourced development teams is desirable.
• Ability to translate business needs into technology development requirements.
• Strong influencing, problem solving, consensus building, and negotiation skills.
• Consistent delivery and responsiveness.

Benefits

• Employee recognition reward
• Free unlimited snacks
• Free unlimited tea/coffee
• Health insurance for employee (coming soon)
• Team build volunteering
• Every Friday fun team activity
• Industry standard holidays/leaves
• Company sponsored quarterly retreat
• Tuition reimbursement

How to Apply

We are always delighted to receive interesting resumes. Please email yours to resumes@theOpenEyes.com to consider joining us.

Please be sure to tell us why you think that working with us might make a difference to your life, to OpenEyes, and to our customers.