Software Development Manager

Line Management

• Effectively manage a sub team of engineers.
• Hold weekly 1:1s with your sub team to provide them the support they need to progress and succeed at Enable.
• Understanding the strengths and weaknesses as well as the likes and dislikes of individual team members and organizing work accordingly. This also includes having the ability to lift motivation levels of team members.
• Schedule, prepare for, and attend annual appraisals for members of your sub team.
• Drive skills development of sub team members.

Team Growth & Retention

• Contribute to recruitment activities, such as interviews and employee onboarding.
• Assist with internal promotion activities as new roles become available.
• Be a positive representative for Enable, ensuring your team is happy and we have good staff retention.
• Daily management and HR activities, including the completion of many recurring management tasks.

Delivery

• Lead engineering projects and project teams.
• Deliver projects that improve the quality of Enable’s product and minimize defects.
• Confidently deliver challenging project requirements within budget.
• When tasks are large, break them down into smaller, more actionable parts.
• Effectively manage shifting priorities when necessary.
• Champion and demonstrate the reduction of technical debt.

Processes

• Attend recurring engineering meetings. 
• Continued focus on staying on top of our backlogs, ensuring our most important tasks are prioritised first. 
• Have direct and ongoing input into Engineering team OKRs. 
• Take ownership of Engineering team OKRs, ensuring we stay on track to achieve them. 
• Management and completion of business improvement initiatives. 
• Effectively delegate work and responsibilities, utilising the skills of people in your team. 
• Support the operational responsibilities held by members of your team. 
• Provide regular assistance and guidance for other members of the engineering team as well as individuals elsewhere in the business. 
• Be proactive in anticipating problems that could arise in the future and look to pre-emptively provide solutions before they become an issue. 
• Actively participates in meetings and creates cross-team collaboration where necessary to address business goals. 
• Coordinate efforts across the team rather than working in a silo. Makes sure that people feel included in varying projects, and that their voices are heard. 
• Creates and maintains internal documentation for the purpose and structure of the systems they're working on. Carefully documents processes that aren’t clear. 

What we're asking you to bring!

• Multiple years’ experience leading software engineering project teams.
• Provable track record of delivering projects to a high standard, with minimal defects.
• Be able to demonstrate work that has pushed an organization forward, such as, improving standards, deploying new technologies that are consistent with the roadmap, improving business processes, solid product knowledge, contributions to team OKRs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to engage and motivate others.
• Be a positive force in the wider Enable team.
• Thrive in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to be decisive and make difficult decisions.
• Strong technical design capability.
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage a team of engineers.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• Be dynamic, ready to respond to ad hoc queries.