Software Engineering Manager
Company: Clayton Homes (New)
Location: Maryville
Posted on: March 12, 2025
Job Description:
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Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR115697Software Engineering
ManagerPosition SummaryThe Software Engineering Manager is
responsible for leading a software engineering team, which includes
career and talent development, strategic technical vision and
planning, capacity and demand management, and project delivery.The
Software Engineering Manager is a partner to business customers and
works in concert with the Portfolio Manager to define priorities
and deliverables by clearly communicating areas of risk,
dependencies, and mitigations to both technical and non-technical
audiences. They will also work directly with architecture and
quality assurance to define and implement benchmarks for product
quality and interaction between interconnected systems. By building
relationships across the organization, they will navigate complex
issues and work across teams to align implementation schedules and
remove blockers.About The TeamCorporate and Enterprise Services
(CES) is a fun and diverse team that supports a variety of
mission-critical platforms that span and connect the entire Clayton
organization. We partner with and are solution providers for
business stakeholders such as Legal, Accounting, HR, Loan
Originations and Servicing, Communications, Internal Audit, and
more. We value our team members, heavily invest in their work-life
balance and skillset development, and find creative ways to
celebrate our wins as a group. We support multiple different tech
stacks from SaaS platforms (Workday, OnBase, etc.) to custom
development both on-premises and in the cloud.Primary
Responsibilities
- Serve as a coach and mentor for the development team, inclusive
of software engineers, software engineering managers, product
owners, project managers, and QA
- Coaches and mentors development team members to ensure
adherence to our development standards and practices and empower
team members to pursue autonomy, mastery, and purpose
- Work with team leadership to establish goals and annual
KPIs
- Actively work to remove blockers to sprint and project
success
- Establish an environment that focuses on rapid delivery, high
quality, and low technical debt through self-directed teams
- Maintain a focus on continued development of business acumen,
ensuring a focus on understanding the business as well as our
stakeholders, creating on-time, quality, business-oriented
results
- Foster a culture of innovation that looks for unique ways to
solve problems, increase capacity, lower costs, and generally
promote positive change
- Understand business requirements across the organization. Align
technical and business goals across teams to create a consolidated
view of needs from an enterprise level
- Partner with architects to understand system design
constraints, functional and non-functional requirements
- Provide guidance that focuses on common solutions which are
reusable, fault-tolerant, and enable rapid delivery
- Participate in budgeting activities around team member
resources, contractors, projected software renewals, and costs
associated with software development
- Establish clear goals that can be used as an anchor point for
decisions and conversations.
- Work to establish a common understanding between stakeholder
groups and tech partners that eliminates ambiguity
- A key leader in the group - establishing a positive,
results-oriented culture that engages team members in a fun and
passionate wayPrimary Qualifications
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Previous experience managing development teams
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or
equivalent work experience
- Understanding of AWS, the service it provides, and cost
management
- AWS certification preferred, but not requiredDesired Skills
- Broad understanding of technology stacks, architectural
practices, and communication patterns
- Can recognize dependencies across teams, work to minimize the
impacts, and inform delivery schedules
- Familiarity with document management platforms
- Experience integrating with small and large SaaS solutions
- Understands how to utilize EDA and Microservices to create low
dependency interconnected systems
- Excellent communication skills that can flex between deep
technical conversations and pointed discussions with multiple
levels of leadership
- Thought leadership that drives innovation
- Very adaptable with the ability to problem-solve complex
problems by utilizing all available options
- Adept at building and maintaining relationshipsBehavioral
Competencies
- Driving Results - motivates individuals to achieve and exceed
goals by establishing accountability
- Strategic Talent Management - attract, hire, engage, and
develop talented people to build the capabilities required for the
organization to perform at high levels
- Influence and Persuasion - Working with individuals to find
common ground and understanding
- Communicating - provides the information required by others in
a concise, direct, and unambiguous way
- Relationship Building - develop effective long-term
professional interactions with others based on trust
- Organizational Savvy - gather and accurately assess information
related to the organization's formal and informal communication
channels and power relationships.
- Strategic Thinking - develop and help drive a shared
understanding of a long-term vision that describes how the
organization needs to operate
- Analytical Thinking - tends toward taking calculated risks by
making decisions and acting, even in the absence of all
information.
- Business Acumen - makes sound business decisions based on a
strong understanding of the company's business model, strategic
goals, and relevant policies
- Planning and Priority - identifies the priorities, processes,
and practical actions that are necessary to achieve an objective or
an idea. Develops detailed action or project plans, including
objectives, accountabilities, time frames, standards, review
stages, and contingenciesWhy Clayton Homes?Founded in 1956, Clayton
is a Berkshire Hathaway Company committed to opening doors to a
better life and Building Happyness through homeownership. Through
its family of brands, Clayton builds, sells, finances, and ensures
traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing - including
modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod homes, tiny homes,
college dormitories, military barracks, and apartments. Corporate
headquarters is located in the Knoxville, Tennessee area,
specifically, Maryville, Tennessee. Clayton is the recipient of
numerous industry awards including 2019 Builder of the Year and
ranks as the #2 builder of homes in the U.S. by units sold. Our
site-built division, Clayton Properties Group, is the 8th largest
site builder in the U.S. We achieve our results through the
strength of our people and have been recognized on the 2021 Forbes
Best Employers for Diversity and 2021 Forbes America's Best
Employers Lists. To learn more about Clayton Homes, go to:
https://www.claytonhomes.comBenefits
- Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match
of the first 4%; medical, dental, and vision plans; paid time off
days and holidays.
- Quarterly bonus program.
- Forbes lists: America's Best Employers, America's Employers by
State, Best Employers for Diversity, Best Employers for Women.
- Recognized as one of East Tennessee's top technology
workplaces.
- Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual,
intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial
well-being.
- Onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes,
volleyball and basketball, ping-pong, and disc golf course.
- Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.Clayton is committed to a
diverse and inclusive workplace. Clayton is an equal opportunity
employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national
origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected
veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected
status.
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