Company Overview:

A leading American telecommunications provider, offering wireless, broadband, and digital TV services. It operates the largest wireless network in the U.S., delivering 4G LTE, 5G, and IoT solutions. Consumer services include mobile plans, internet, and TV, while business offerings focus on cloud, security, and networking solutions. Formed in 2000 through the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, the company is known for its commitment to innovation, investing in 5G, AI, and smart city technologies. Headquartered in New York, it serves millions of customers across the U.S. and globally. Through its subsidiary, the company also owns Yahoo and AOL’s media operations.What You’ll Be Doing…

In this role, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, driving Wireless applications forward to achieve our NorthStar architecture goals. You’ll lead initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional teams and leadership, setting priorities, tracking KPIs, and driving innovation. By fostering a culture of progress, you’ll work closely with development, QA, SRE, Architecture teams, and external partners to deliver an outstanding user experience for our business customers.

• Championing Best Practices: Engage, influence, and advocate for best practices in Software Development with teams across development, operations, and product groups to ensure aligned, efficient technology solutions.
• Building a Top-Performing Team: Develop, inspire, and retain a high-performing team, overseeing direction and continuously evaluating performance while promoting career growth and high morale.
• Encouraging Creativity and Engagement: Motivate the team to participate in hackathons, coding events, and organization-wide innovation efforts to promote a culture of creativity.
• Providing Leadership and Mentorship: Offer leadership on complex projects, mentor the team with an emphasis on development, architecture, systems analysis, design, and testing.
• Ensuring Quality and Accountability: Implement clear processes, metrics, and goals for quality assurance, lead effective postmortems, and ensure follow-through on action items.
• Driving Platform Strategy: Lead strategic planning and execution for platform development, focusing on building a repeatable, scalable model for engineering. This includes implementing SRE, DevSecOps, Security, Stability, and Scalability tools and practices.
• Enabling Automation and Monitoring: Facilitate proactive monitoring and automation to detect issues early, with strong technical guidance on architecture and design.
• Managing Performance and Capacity: Oversee capacity planning, performance analysis, and other non-functional requirements to ensure system robustness.
• Engaging with Customers and Stakeholders: Collaborate daily with internal and external customers, providing updates, technical insights, and managing project timelines and budgets.
• Solving Complex Problems Creatively: Tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions, requiring in-depth analysis of variable factors.
• Overseeing Major Projects: Manage all aspects of multiple large-scale projects from concept through implementation, serving as the primary point of contact.
• Vendor Management: Define SMART goals, evaluate vendor performance, ensure accountability, and manage Statements of Work effectively.

Where You’ll Be Working…

This hybrid role offers a mix of work-from-home and in-office days as defined by your manager.

You are passionate about technology and the possibilities it creates. Your experience spans all phases of the software development cycle, and you naturally foster environments where teams feel valued and supported. You thrive in leading complex projects with diverse priorities and build strong, collaborative relationships across the organization. You are dedicated to improving people skills, optimizing processes, and promoting technology adoption that adds high value to the business.

You’ll Need to Have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience in software development.
• Proven experience in software development management, overseeing large-scale core development projects from requirements to delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot microservices, MFE, Oracle, Cassandra NoSQL.
• Proficiency in Java Spring Boot, React, New Relic, Kibana, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, databases (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle), AWS, K8S, SOE/SRE, DevSecOps tools.
• Experience in Angular or React.
• Agile (SAFe/Scrum) delivery management expertise.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Assisted/Wireless Telecom Systems or Retail/eCommerce domains.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Certifications, patents, published work, or industry recognition.
• Strong problem-solving skills under time constraints.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, ACP).
• A proven leader and mentor with a high level of engagement with team members.