Software Development Supervisor - Hiring Immediately!

Company: H&R Block
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

What you'll do...

Supervise, lead, and coach teams across a department or subgroup. Execute and enforce consistent processes for development. Develop, monitor, and manage team performance. Develop and maintain project plans, including resource assignments, risks and issues. Provides technical expertise to design, develop and maintain software components and products that support H&R Block business applications. Uses tools, languages, coding standards and best practices to develop new product features and maintain year over year product functionality and enhancements. Creates and executes unit tests and addresses defects.

At H&R Block, we are modernizing our software architecture which is generating a need for more talent. We are looking for problem-solving, difference-makers to help us with new approaches, challenges and designs. We are investing heavily in our technology transformation, moving to serverless infrastructure and cloud-native applications, as well as a continuous everything approach - improvement, development, testing, implementation, delivery, and learning.

The goal? Faster innovation.
We encourage learning, experimenting and exploration. If this type of innovation and learning excites you, we are looking for you!

Day to day, you'll...

• Manage development operations including organization and staffing
• Develop greenfield Cloud native applications in the Financial Accounting domain using Azure, C#, .NET tech-stack Conduct employment interviews, make hiring decisions, and lead corrective action and termination discussions and decisions
• Set daily priorities and assign tasks and projects to all team members
• Monitor and provide periodic status updates on each project
• Monitor performance and develop team members to ensure consistent, effective and efficient processes, as well as comprehensive test plans and reliable test results
• Prepare and deliver associate quarterly and annual performance reviews, including performance metrics for each performance objective
• Effectively utilize Agile methodology to plan and lead team through sprints to ensure quality delivery
• Identify product design features to support scalability, usability and better performance
• Design, develop and maintain complex software components
• Maintain and improve current knowledge on the latest technologies relevant to the role regarding algorithms, language, design methodology, third-party development tools, application platforms, hardware compatibility and operating systems
• Establish best practices in coding and development within the team and ensure consistency of the use of best practices within the team
• Design and develop reusable code components
• Positively and proactively leads and influences the team
• Create, maintain and execute unit test and alpha test plans
• Support other managers in product and technology management
  
  What you'll bring to the team...
  
  
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.
  • Demonstrated effective time management, planning and organization skills with the ability to successfully handle multiple tasks, projects and priorities in a fast-paced matrix-managed environment.
  • Supervisory/management experience in a technical environment.
  • 5 years of application development experience or equivalent experience as a technical team lead.
  • 5 years Minimum related work experience
  • Experience with the following technologies:
    • NET
    • C#
    • Azure
    • SQL
    • Effective oral, written and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated effectiveness in presenting complex information to multiple organizational levels, with strong facilitation and presentation skills.
    • Demonstrated leadership abilities, decision making, analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to develop creative solutions to assigned projects.
      
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