Senior Manager-Software Development

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect around the world. We’re a human network that reaches across the globe and works behind the scenes. We anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together—lifting up our communities and striving to make an impact to move the world forward. If you’re fueled by purpose, and powered by persistence, explore a career with us. Here, you’ll discover the rigor it takes to make a difference and the fulfillment that comes with living the #NetworkLife.

What you’ll be doing...

Senior Manager of IoT Development will partner with the Product Development, Program Management, DevOps, IT, Customer Care and Infrastructure teams to assist in driving a various strategic and tactical initiatives to sustain existing solutions, and to architect scalable and sustainable framework and lead a team of subject matter experts to support and operate Verizon’s IoT platform(ThingSpace). You will work in partnership with the multitude of internal organizations and senior leadership.
You enjoy a balance of strategic thinking, “rolling up the sleeves” to drive tactical issues and support Verizon 5G Business Internet and Fixed Wireless Access efforts. You will make recommendations, to business leaders, based on understanding of the strategic landscape, and based on fact-based business cases.

• Providing vision and leadership to a strong team of engineers.
• Leading platform software architecture and vision for services.
• Managing schedules/Team, be accountable and deliver projects on time in a fast paced agile environment.
• Being passionate about learning new technologies and creating innovative solutions.
• Developing 24x7 no downtime highly available IoT services in Production environment.
• Contributing technically and own architectural oversight of system/services.
• Creating an atmosphere of innovation for creating next generation IoT services.
• Working with Product Management and Operations to successfully deploy services.
• Supporting 24x7 available services and triaging customer requests.

What we’re looking for…

You have the ability to define a vision and your ambitious attitude drives you to generate highly innovative ideas and take calculated risks. You develop positive relationships and innovative solutions, which makes you a productive collaborator. Customers appreciate that you take personal responsibility for their satisfaction, and team members know they can count on your commitment.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or Seven or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Software development experience in a diverse set of areas including scalable web applications, web services, message queues.
• Experience in leading Software projects/development teams.
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability and availability.
• Experience in the software development cycle.
• Experience in Java/J2EE application development including experience leading a technical team in such web technologies

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in project management including waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience triaging/handling high pressure customer end user/requests.
• Experience in a DevOps software development environment.
• Experience migrating web applications to Cloud (AWS, Oracle Cloud or Cloud Foundry etc.)
• Knowledge and experience of Docker/Container technologies.
• Experience with NoSQL/scale out messaging technologies.

“If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.”

Where you’ll be working

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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