Senior manager software engineering

About our client:Our Client operates in the Food Processing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 200 countries, providing employment to more than 3,00,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is to manufacture, market, distribute and sell consumer staple products.Role Description:The Senior Manager of Software Engineering will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy Transformation (S T) organization.Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across our client value chain. This leader will deliver the end-to-end software development experience, deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process, and have accountability for our business operations.The leader in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value.This leader will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S T core priorities.Responsibilities: Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolioDevelop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers. Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering. Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiencesManage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders.Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business.Requirements:A Bachelor’s Degree is required. Computer Science, Engineering or a related field preferred.Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferredWorking knowledge of Cloud Native Development including concepts of Message Queues, Distributed Caching, Load Balancing, RDBMS, NoSQL, KeyValueStores, REST API’S, etc. Front end development with React, Spring Boot, Kafka, Cosmos, Caching technologies.Ability to navigate the matrix teamsWorking knowledge of programming languages - Java and JavaScriptWorking knowledge of BackEnd and FrontEnd Frameworks – Spring/SpringBoot/React/ReactNative and NodeJS ecosystemDrive Best Practices of Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Architecture ReviewsMetrics-backed decisions during all phases of SDLCExperience with mission critical, 24x7 systems Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems. Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services. Deep knowledge of design patterns, architecture patterns. Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized.Ability to run a large team of software engineers.Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities.Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities.Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization.Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support.Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment.Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units.