R&D Manager

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Position Description:

Vocera Now a Part of Stryker is seeking a dedicated Manager R&D with a strong background in software engineering within the microservices and cloud domain, coupled with excellent people management skills. In this role, you will mentor and lead a team, driving innovation and delivering high-quality enterprise-class products. You will oversee software development and testing teams, ensuring the scalability, longevity, and reliability of product releases.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Experience with managing the development, testing, and deployment of Micro Services and cloud applications and solutions
• Drives functional excellence initiatives, delivers high-quality R&D functional deliverables, and ensures technical excellence for product or technology development.  Drives technical projects of major magnitude and scope
• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.
• Lead the Agile development process, including planning, code reviews, code hygiene, and alignment with important product releases
• Collaborate with the NA teams, Technical Support, Escalations team, and DevOps to anticipate and mitigate project issues as well as troubleshoot issues encountered by customers
• Provides guidance and training to staff, assists subordinates in attaining career goals, motivates individuals to achieve results, and recruits and maintains a high-quality staff.
• Coordinates sessions with project managers/core team leaders to look for opportunities for staff to learn about new initiatives or volunteer on new projects.
• Determines project staff assignments and schedules work to meet completion dates and R&D deliverables. Establishes cross-functional team relationships.

What you will need:

Competencies:

• Track record of building and delivering solutions based on a solid understanding of customer needs.
• Results-driven, hands-on approach to the full product life cycle from architecture development to product implementation.
• A passion for the end-to-end development of quality software products.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging, communications, and documentation skills.
• Resourceful and able to solve complex problems through adapting technology and a deep understanding of product architecture.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture, with expertise in scalable and resilient systems.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture with expertise in containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.
• Additionally, hands-on experience in optimizing microservices for performance, scalability, and security would be considered a significant asset, further enhancing the candidate's suitability for the role.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Requirements:
Masters or bachelor’s in computer science or related field.

12+ years applicable experience, with 4+ years direct people management experience preferred.

Good level of understanding of experience in, and ability to mentor in one's own technical/functional disciplines.

Technical Skills:

• Good level of understanding of experience in, and ability to mentor in one's own technical/functional disciplines.
• Proficient in building robust back-end applications using Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of database technologies, including SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Hands-on expertise with Kafka Confluent for event streaming and message brokering.
• In-depth knowledge of microservice architecture, including designing, developing, and deploying scalable services.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and their associated services.
• Basic understanding of authentication protocols such as SAML, OIDC, and related security standards.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in Agile development environments.
• Leadership Experience:
• Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members, setting clear performance objectives, and managing team member performance.
• General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.
• Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate plans and technical information to team members within a business unit.
• Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time, on quality and within budget.

Travel Percentage: 10%