Manager, Software Engineering

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 14 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

We were also recognized as one of National Capital Region's 2024 Top Employers in Canada, read on to see why!

The Software Development Manager Role

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to help lead a team of passionate developers and ML engineers in building out best in class AI-powered capabilities across our Qlik portfolio. As an integral part of our R&D team, your team will be at the forefront of developing cutting edge AI products for data and analytics, empowering organizations to implement AI responsibly and derive insights from diverse datasets. We are looking for a manager who is passionate about developing great people, solving new problems, and building awesome SaaS software that delights our customers. If you have a track record of predictably delivering high quality, available, innovative, user-friendly software and are looking for a new challenge, this is a great opportunity to shape the direction of AI at Qlik.

Responsibilities include:

• Challenging and inspiring your team to deliver great AI based software continuously following the principles of agile and DevOps development;
• Enabling the team by coaching, removing roadblocks, clarifying priorities, and working with relevant stakeholders;
• Collaborating with Product Managers, Product Designers and other stakeholders to prioritize backlogs and maintain your roadmap;
• Managing individual features through the prototyping, design, development and delivery phases – including deployment to cloud;
• Managing quality – attending to defects, production incidents, orchestrating automated testing, prioritizing technical debt and architectural spikes where appropriate;
• Understanding your team members’ strengths and providing opportunities for them to learn, and develop;
• Innovating within our software delivery process to compete vigorously with the very best software teams in the world;

Qualifications include:

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams delivering successful SaaS solutions, including requirements analysis, design, peer review, prototyping, build and release, quality processes, automation, task estimation, security, availability, redundancy, instrumentation, maintenance and support;
• Knowledge of agile continuous delivery – able to lead teams writing production ready code that is deployed continuously with fully automated testing;
• Technical understanding of micro services architecture and experience with interactive web applications using technologies like JavaScript, Node, and Go;
• Experience with containerization and deployment on Linux using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes;
• Experience with cloud platforms such AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, an asset;
• Experience with AI technologies, delivering ML services to cloud an asset;
• Experience in a DevOps setting to deliver services at high velocity;
• Experience working successfully across geographies and cultures;
• Business Intelligence, Data Management, and related domain experience, an asset; and
• Occasional travel to other R&D offices.

The location for this role is:   

Ottawa, Canada   

Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities!

More about Qlik and who we are:

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What else do we offer?

• National Capital Region's 2024 Top Employers in Canada: https://reviews.canadastop100.com/top-employer-qliktech
• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $170,000 CDN per year. Final compensation offered by Qlik will be based on factors such as the candidate’s location, job-related skills, education, experience, and other business and organizational needs. Qlik offers a comprehensive benefits package, eligibility requirements for benefits will be controlled by applicable Qlik plan documents and policies.

If you need assistance applying for a role due to a disability, please submit your request via email to accessibilityta @ qlik.com. Any information you provide will be treated according to Qlik’s Recruitment Privacy Notice. Qlik may only respond to emails related to accommodation requests.

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