Manager, IT

About FlightSafety International FlightSafety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom. Purpose of Position Engineering Manager, Custom Application Platform leads custom application development team of eight in support of Java/J2EE Enterprise Service Bus running on Kafka/Camel, Flutter based user interface platform, and the Domain Services Framework. People leader of approximately eight developers and testers. Great opportunity to lead the modernization and standardization of leading-edge frameworks. Tasks and Responsibilities - Lead, coach, and develop engineering and quality teams using servant-leadership principle to drive business value through the strategic use of custom application development. - Coach and lead your Agile Delivery team to Improve delivery quality, automation, observability, secure CI/CD practices, and engineering feedback loops. - As an application and domain owner, develop and maintain strong business partner relationships - Establish and manage to your annual budget while maintaining a sustainable pace for your team - Define and manage the Platform Services strategic technology roadmap - Partner effectively with Domain Product Leads, your Delivery Lead (Scrum master), the Enterprise Architect, and InfoSec leaders - Lead your team's operations and break fix activities - Facilitate 24x7 on-call support, participate in after-hours rotation as needed - Prioritize and manage workload, issues, and risks - Limited travel when required Minimum Education *Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience Minimum Experience - 5+ years of experience leading Agile software engineering teams, more than one at a time for at least 2 years - 10+ years of experience in a Scrum/XP software development role - 2+ years of experience leading /managing testers - 5+ years of experience as a People Leader i.e., have direct reports - Hands on experience in the use of modern programming languages and test automation frameworks (not a day to day coding role, must have significant experience as an software engineer) Knowledge, Skills, Abilities - Must have technical depth in at least two of the following: Java/J2EE, Flutter, .Net, - Ability to lead transformational change in an emergent agile culture - Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and the ability to coach teams on effective planning, flow, retrospectives, and backlog refinement. - Able to coach the use of user stories and GHERKIN acceptance criteria - Able to coach Unit Testing and/or Test-Driven Development and leverage Domain Driven Design concepts - Values lean metrics and their healthful application - Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices - Familiar with NIST 800-171 and understands how to leverage static and dynamic code scanning results - Strong written and verbal communications skills Physical Demands and Work Environment The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the em