Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Exact Sciences

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Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead a team in the successful delivery of critical software projects. This role will work with cross-functional teams and various business stakeholders to devise solutions to urgent business challenges. This role will communicate with leaders at all levels of our business and mobilize their team to execute, often on short timelines. This individual will be responsible for continued growth of a successful Software Engineering team which supports mission-critical development at Exact Sciences in a wide range of areas of the business.

Major emphasis will be placed on the person’s technical and leadership skills, ability to hire outstanding talent, and coach them to success and foster an innovative team environment.

Essential Duties

include but are not limited to the following:

• Raise capabilities in the engineering team; including, but not limited to, developing coding, testing, and deployment protocols and best practices.
• Maintain strong relationships and transparency with key stakeholders (Lab, Sales, Support, Customers, and Affiliates).
• Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps, requirements, balance business need with capacity, and technology constraints.
• Influence senior engineering and business leaders to drive increased capability though engineering processes and technologies. 
• Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams to design innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by the Company.
• Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
• Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
• Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
• Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Ability to apply good process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem resolution skills.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent project communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to execute project delivery to client satisfaction on time, on budget with quality.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls, and leading in a managed service environment.
• Ability to drive continuous improvements in organizational performance and efficiency, and career development for employees.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability and means to travel between Exact Sciences locations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a field related to the essential duties of the job; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology with increasing responsibility and advancing technical skills.
• 5+ years of experience leading or directing people and/or project teams.  
• Strong proficiency of object-oriented, service-oriented architecture, micro-service architecture, and programming principals. 
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with one of the following areas: ERP, LIMS, Bioinformatics, or clinical data management.
• Experience working in a regulated environment (SOX, HIPAA, CLIA, GCP, FDA, ISO-13485, and/or IEC-62304).
• Demonstrated understanding of the Clinical Lab environment.
• Enterprise class information technology experience (Custom-COTS Hybrid, Integrated Multi-Channel End-User, Multiple Mobile Platform Delivery, Distributed Big Data).

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Salary Range:

$143,000.00 - $228,000.00

 

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - CA - San Diego on a full-time basis and may differ by hiring location. In addition, this position is bonus eligible, and is eligible to receive company stock upon hire as well as annually.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team, and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation, please contact us here.

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