• Winnipeg

Manager – Software Engineering (development)

Please send your cover letter and resume to careers@icgroupinc.com

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WHO ARE WE?

ICG’s solutions are rooted in understanding our business lines and technologies and collaborating with our business teams to deliver high-quality, reliable enterprise-grade solutions for top Global brands such as X, Microsoft, and Bausch & Lomb.  We deliver in a fast-paced, ever-changing and innovative environment underpinned by sound cost management while maintaining a high level of security practices for PCI and ISO compliancy.

Our teams are responsible for the secure delivery and execution of all client programs & projects. ICG aims to act as a trusted partner and strives to deepen client relationships based on trust, security, integrity, commitment, accountability and delivery.  This team lives on the cutting edge with solutions which drive strategic and long-term value to our customers.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

As the Software Development Manager in our Winnipeg office, you will lead our overall internal Development team and associated platforms. Concurrently, you will manage the delivery of current & future products, and their ongoing support and improvement. This will have a heavy focus on the overall design and architecture with a secondary focus on team leadership.  Team leadership will be supported by other leadership roles within the organization.

To ensure timely product releases, you will:

  • Collaborate on resources and work allocation
  • Ensure developers are working effectively with all other roles and departments
  • Track and communicate progress of releases
  • Ensure code quality standards and design principles are maintained and utilized by the Engineering team
  • Mentor development team members.
  • Collaborate on performance reviews and coaching.
  • Work with various teams locally and abroad through dedicated employee, onshore, near shore, or outsourced arrangement across various time zones when needed.
  • Be a key member of ICG’s DevOps program.
  • Be a key member of ICG’s security compliance program.
  • Bring new ideas and technologies.

You should want to, and be able to, get hands-on when required!

You will also be responsible for managing outsourced development partners (quality check code base, manage external leads, and validate deliverables), ensuring best practices in software development, and working with key leaders to design and plan development projects.

Furthermore, you will need to bring appropriate solutions to critical issues and drive complex estimates – that take one or more projects into account – that effectively communicate risks and dependencies to stakeholders.

IS THIS ROLE RIGHT FOR YOU?

Crucially, for this Winnipeg based in-office role, candidates should:

  1. Be looking for a new challenge.
  2. Come from a .NET development background.
  3. Be a leader in DEVOPS software development life-cycle.
  4. Understand Agile methodologies, and overall best practices for development and delivery.
  5. Have an Architecture mindset who seeks to design solutions.
  6. Consider security throughout the SDLC

You must have excellent Agile skills, a strong understanding SDLC methodologies, the ability to inspire our in-house software development team, have demonstrated process improvement leadership by effectively deploying people and systems, and have the strong ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Ideally…

You will come from a small to medium SaaS-based environment, have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, 3 years’ experience directly leading development teams, and be able to effectively communicate with all levels including senior level executives.

Key Tasks

LEADERSHIP

  • Responsible for a medium sized technical team
    • Managing the daily workflow
    • Executing tactics to achieve company objectives.
    • Employee development and training
  • Ensuring employees are technically competent, while encouraging growth within related disciplines to ensure IC Group has the correct resources to achieve operational successes.
  • Coaching and mentoring team members to achieve their goals within ICG.
  • Performance reviews, adjustments, and coaching.
  • Provides guidance on Software Architecture, creating and proposing new solutions.
  • Communicating regular status to select executive managers on the progress of projects, platforms, and employee development.
  • Presentations to leadership as needed.

PROJECT PLANNING & EXECUTION

  • Provides estimates for technical delivery team.
  • Provides guidance or direction to PMO regarding plan and execution.
  • Provide approvals for timelines and approach.
  • Participates, and provides technical input, in Delivery Checkpoints, and Project Health meetings.
  • Key DevOps member

STANDARDS COMPLIANCE

  • Make decisions on department standards and supported frameworks and technologies.
  • Ensuring standards are being met and security processes are being followed. This may require completing code reviews so an expertise with ASP.NET, .NET CORE, C#, MS SQL as well as JavaScript, HTML and CSS is required.
  • Ensuring we continue to meet security accreditations as a key member of the security team
  • Documentation as needed that relates to development platforms such as HA, Azure and other as needed.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

  • Accountable for processes specific to Solutions Delivery (DEVOPS/Agile vs PM methodologies) Ensuring solutions are properly maintained and applied.
  • Maintaining and managing development pipeline tools and practices

RESOURCE PLANNING

  • Determine technical competency and availability/capacity of delivery staff.
  • Assist in the prioritizing all projects and departmental tasks.

Overall, here’s what our successful candidate should possess:

  • Bachelor’s degree (Related discipline)
  • 10 years progressive development experience, with 3 years of managing a development team
  • Experience in the technologies and tools noted
  • Excellent business and people skills and ability to positively interact at the executive level
  • Excellent and fluent English communication skills dealing with all levels, including internal and external stakeholders (Written & Verbal)

Key Technologies and Tool Set

  • .NET (C#)
  • .NET CORE
  • EmberJS
  • REACT
  • Jira
  • Git
  • MS Azure, Cloud Services
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • MSSQL Database
  • RESTful APIs
  • SonarQube
  • RabbitMQ
  • KeyVault
  • TailwindCSS
  • Sentry
  • Docker

Nice to have technology experience.

  • Nuxt.JS
  • Node.JS
  • MongoDB
  • REDIS
  • Grafana
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