Senior Development Manager

Senior Development Manager

What you will love about Dalet and why you should be working here 🚀

Dalet is a media solutions and service provider that places technological innovation and human collaboration at the heart of everything we do, creating powerful tools and products that help our customers tell better stories. With over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. ​Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, ABC, NBC, Warner Media, MediaCorp, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. We are here to facilitate and simplify the creation, management and distribution of great content. We passionately believe in making our customers’ lives easier.

Top reasons to join us

• Revolutionize a big industry in a dynamic, fast-growing, yet mature, company
• Benefit from great career opportunities around the world
• Make the most of a truly collaborative environment with supportive leadership
• Collaborate with talented and passionate team members

As a Senior Development Manager, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the delivery of leading news production applications used by major broadcasters globally.

Reporting to the Director of Software Development you will lead an engineering culture of excellence in which engineering teams deliver high quality software enabling a new generation of story-centric news production workflows that serve the needs of traditional and digital first news teams.

The ideal candidate must have experience leading large engineering teams working on a portfolio of products. Engineering at Dalet requires strong leaders who work across multiple disciplines including leadership, architecture, software development, whilst also collaborating with DevOps, quality assurance, security and programme management. The candidate will also have experience managing distributed teams and is comfortable operating in a hybrid work model and in multiple time zones.

They will oversee hiring, training, mentoring, and evaluating the team members, as well as assigning tasks, setting deadlines, and resolving conflicts. You will also foster a positive and productive team culture, where collaboration, communication, and feedback are encouraged 

 What you'll be doing

• Managing a team of development managers and architects, setting goals to ensure timely project delivery, provide guidance to the team and managing the performance of people managers and their team. 

• Organize and coordinate the activities of engineering teams to be aligned with the product roadmap and commitments.

• Work with the senior members of R&D to define and develop a state-of-the-art platform architecture and practices that serve all the products in Dalet’s portfolio.

• Work closely with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that R&D activities are fully aligned with the company vision and mission, support ongoing strategic initiatives and projects, and ensure that engineering teams are focused on the delivery of successful outcomes for customers.

• Ensure that modern software practices are adopted and used by the teams, introduce processes to support efficient and effective software delivery of the highest quality.

• Ensure that impediments are identified and addressed quickly to allow teams to focus on delivery.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to help shape the product roadmap and define delivery plans for product features.

• Ensure that product support and maintenance activities are well managed and timely.

• Report on progress and the performance of the engineering group to senior management. Provide mentorship and career development advice and guidance to Team-members. This mentorship should include both technical mentorships, as well as soft-skills and other aspects of being effective and successful in a development organization.

What you'll we need to be successful

• A Bachelor/master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.

• At least 12 years of experience managing high-performing software development teams with 5 years of experience managing teams of over 50 engineers.

• Experience in managing a portfolio of related products and developing mission critical enterprise systems.

• Deep knowledge of architectural design patterns with a focus on cloud-native distributed architecture using microservices and serverless techniques.

• Experience in technology modernisation initiatives and cloud-migrations.

• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), virtualised on-prem deployments, network, and systems architecture.

• Knowledge of Java, NodeJS, C, C++, DevOps principles, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code.

• Excellent leadership skills that include the ability to work with senior stakeholders across the organisation promoting open communication and collaboration.

• The ability to identify and solve problems, prioritize work, and adapt in a dynamic environment.

• Excellent communication skills with a strong command of the English language (written, verbal).

• The ability to create a culture of engineering excellence that encourages and allows talented engineers to thrive.

• Fluent in English with good communication, organizational and writing skills.

 Dalet values diversity and inclusion in our workplace and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, abilities, and identities. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We have a strict PSL in place. We only accept applications from agencies that have been invited to work on the role. Candidates’ resumes submitted directly to managers or HR will be considered unsolicited and no fee will be payable.