Summary Statement:

You will manage a team of developers to help us create the next generation of innovative solutions while also enhancing and optimizing our existing systems and applications. Providing day-to-day management and development for your team, you will manage projects to ensure seamless delivery, implementation, support, and issue resolution.  Using your knowledge and experience with the technology you will help guide our organization to implement solutions that will move us forward and keep us ahead of the competition.

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Penske manager software development, you will be leading a team focused on key software development, enhancements, and maintenance. Working with your teams, stakeholders, and development partners/vendors to ensure implementation and help define architectures to create robust solutions. Conducting performance reviews for your team and engineering process for quality assurance to ensure that deliverables are effective and meet the needs of the end-user.  Guiding teams and removing roadblocks to ensure timely solutions, as well as, growing your team of developers to advance in their careers are key tasks that help make sure we can keep our organization moving forward.  Fostering a partnership with business owners and key stakeholders to get the job done.

Penske Responsibilities:

• Provide direction and day-to-day management of development staff to ensure that any roadblocks are removed, and developers/teams are successfully moving forward

• Make sure that development projects are prioritized, scheduled, and completed according to business need

• Foster collaboration by leading regular meetings and communicating with process owners, product managers, agile teams, IT groups, and other stakeholders to negotiate priority and timelines while managing resources required to get the job done

• Hire new associates, conduct performance reviews, guide, and mentor their career development

• Ensure on-time and defect-free delivery of applications in accordance with Penske standards

• Ensure technical leads follow the PDP (Penske Development Process) and maintain management reporting

• Responsibilities for multiple systems, agile teams, and cross-functional projects

• Other projects, teams, and responsibilities as assigned by the manager  

• Follow IT practices in security, licensing, source code management, incident management, and following architectural standards

• Coach and mentor associates. Develop team members to increase value to the organization

• Reduce complexity in the environment

• Identify future opportunities for system enhancement and value generation