Senior Manager Software Engineering at Living Goods

Roles and Responsibilities:

•  Work closely with the Director (GSE) to lead the core application design, development implementation, and deployment of digital health tools, solutions, and products including coordination with the Digital Health teams at the country level to ensure effective translation of requirements into technical specifications, delivery of products to schedule with high quality.
•  Facilitating translation of complex functional and technical requirements into a consumable and prioritized backlog.
•  Assess, refine Define and manage the entire software development lifecycle in an agile delivery environment focusing on continuous deployment at pace while maintaining the quality and performance of software systems including supporting systems in production, responding to production incidents, and managing unplanned work.
•  Provide hands-on engineering and technology support to the engineering team for technical/coding/architectural design, execution, and problem-solving for LG digital solutions.
•  Design, develop and implement reliable, scalable, efficient, and secure software systems that are preferably built on widely adopted open-source platforms (such as Global Goods) and operating in across multiple cloud environments.
•  Grow, mentor, and inspire a growing team of software engineers and other direct reports providing clear and constructive feedback and creating opportunities for learning and growth.
•  Contribute to LG's overall organizational strategy as a key member of the Living Goods global management team.

Education and Experience:

•  Bachelor's degree in Software development, IT, Software Engineering, or a related field is essential.
•  Master's degree in software / IT-related field is desirable.
•  08+ years of professional experience in software development with at least 3+ years of software development team management experience.
•  Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and implementing fit-for-purpose digital solutions for scale operations and programs preferably in the digital health space.
•  Hands-on experience in handling two or more digital projects/products/solutions/platforms where the role would have involved designing and executing medium to large-scale digital / software interventions in rather fluid and complex technical procedures such as core platform upgrades, cross-platform integrations, and advanced open-source product customizations while collaborating with other internal engineering leads and/or external partners
•  Hands-on experience working with open-source platforms and tools such as Digital Global Goods (CHT, CommCare, OpenSRP, OpenMRS, OpenLMIS, DHIS2, etc.) will be strongly preferred.