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We are currently looking for a Product Software Engineering Manager to join our team.
About the role:
As a Product Software Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of software engineers, overseeing the development, implementation, and enhancement of commercial products. You will be accountable for the performance and results of your team, driving successful projects that align with business objectives. Your role is critical in ensuring that the software solutions are innovative, reliable, and scalable.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage a sizable team of software engineers, fostering a positive and high-performing work culture.
• Provide expert guidance in solving complex technical challenges and making critical project decisions.
• Communicate effectively in a matrixed organization with senior management, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Foster the growth and development of software engineering teams, providing mentoring and coaching to team members.
• Oversee the adherence to quality standards and best practices throughout the software development process.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Collaborate with other teams and functions to facilitate seamless integration and successful product launches.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations of team members, providing feedback and identifying areas for improvement.
• Plan and schedule work within the team, ensuring efficient resource utilization and meeting project timelines.
• Monitor development processes, framework adoption, and project progress to ensure efficiency and compliance with standards.
• Monitor ongoing processes, materials, or surroundings, providing feedback for improvement.
• Estimate project resources and allocate them effectively to meet project demands.
Skills:
• DevOps: An ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams in order to improve and speed up software development processes. This includes automation, continuous delivery, agility, and rapid response to feedback.
• Product Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products. It involves understanding user needs, defining functional specifications, designing system architecture, coding, debugging, and ensuring product quality. It also requires knowledge of various programming languages, tools and methodologies, and ability to work within diverse teams and manage projects.
• Cloud Computing: The ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services on the internet rather than on a personal computer or local server. This skill involves understanding various cloud services (like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), managing resources online, and setting up cloud-based platforms for business environment.
• Implementation and Delivery: This is a skill that pertains to the ability to translate plans and designs into action. It involves executing strategies effectively, overseeing the delivery of projects or services, and ensuring they are completed in a timely and efficient manner. It also necessitates the coordination of various tasks and management of resources to achieve the set objectives.
• Problem Solving: The ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.
• People management: The ability to lead, motivate, engage and communicate effectively with a team. This includes skills in delegation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and understanding team dynamics. It also involves building a strong team culture and managing individual performance.
• Agile: The ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. In the context of project management, it denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes.
• APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. This skill includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Additionally, having this ability means understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.
• Analysis: The ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.
• Automation: The ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. This skill includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.
• Frameworks: The ability to understand, utilise, and create structured environments for software development. This skill also involves being able to leverage existing frameworks to streamline processes, ensuring better efficiency and code manageability in software development projects.
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Skills Required
- DevOps knowledge, including automation, continuous delivery, agility, and development-operations coordination
- Product software engineering expertise across design, development, testing, deployment, architecture, debugging, and quality assurance
- Cloud computing knowledge and experience managing cloud-based applications, data, services, and platforms
- Implementation and delivery experience, including project execution, coordination, and resource management
- Complex problem-solving ability
- People management skills, including leadership, delegation, communication, conflict resolution, and performance management
- Agile methodology knowledge
- API design, development, management, documentation, security, and testing knowledge
- Analytical skills for evaluating and resolving complex situations
- Automation design, implementation, management, and optimization skills
- Software development framework knowledge and ability to use structured development environments
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
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What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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