Software Engineering Manager

Job Description:

 About Us
OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral. At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible.

Your Role

Are you an analytical thinker and passionate about problem solving? This is a unique opportunity to join a passionate team focused on delivering high quality products to a critical section of the economy. This team is tasked with building and maintaining core systems used by our customer base around the world. To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills.

Your Responsibilities
As an experienced and solution-oriented Software Engineer Manager your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: working with our product teams to provide timely, effective and performant solutions; contributing to the design of scalable data solutions, including the development of automated pipelines; implementing and/or maintaining database systems to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our application suite; understand and define business data requirements and identify data needs and data sources to create scalable data architecture and support enhancements, new product and implementation. You will be a leader coaching, mentoring, and training team members driving both employee and team development and growth. As Manager, you are also skilled in fostering collaboration, innovation, and integrity within your division while promoting employee growth and development through coaching, training and mentoring. 

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor and coach a high performing group of software developers guiding career paths and growth

• Write, build and deploy code

• Analyze business application requirements, identify concerns and develop action plans

• Be part of an Agile team, leading the development team, using company’s latest software development life-cycle, working closely with team members from Romania and US

• Leverage our Cloud infrastructure (AWS) to design solutions that make the best of it

• Maintains existing legacy applications

• Track down and resolve bugs in any OPIS code base

• Adhere to best practice development standards (such as continuous integration and deployment)

Your Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field

• 7+ years hands-on software development experience

• Strong knowledge of OOP principles

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft products, such as C#, .NET Framework, and .NET 6/8

• Knowledge of web services, including protocols and architectures

• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript libraries/frameworks (jQuery, React, Bootstrap, etc.)

• Good understanding of a relational database engine - SQL Server (or PostgreSQL)

• Experience with modern software development life-cycle

• Strong, effective communication skills that bring multiple personalities, cultures, and roles together to work towards a common goal

• Strong ability to communicate ideas verbally and written to promote, educate and evangelize adoption across development teams

Does this sound like you?

• A strong analytical thinker with a love for planning and organization, who can manage competing demands with minimal supervision

• A self-starter, with a never-ending curiosity to learn and solve problems

• A critical thinker, with mad problem-solving skills

• A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills

• A structured developer, with good time-management skills

If these things strike a chord with you, we should talk.

We’d also love to hear about your experiences with any of the following:

• Degrees, certifications, and/or awards/recognition that you have achieved

• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and/or SCRUM

• Experience working with source control providers (Git/TFVC/Mercurial/Svn/etc)

• Experience being part of a continuous integration and deployment process

• Experience using database monitoring tools (like tools from SolarWinds or RedGate)

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Current Colleagues 

If you are currently employed by Dow Jones, please apply internally via the Workday internal careers site. 

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, people with disabilities, and those from underrepresented groups. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role