Director - Software Development

When you join Verizon

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What You’ll Be Doing...

Responsible for leading the delivery of VCG platforms and help deliver business initiatives of VBG and Order to Bill. This leader will work closely with the VBG, and Revenue Assurance process team to deliver end to end solutions for system transformation, driving growth initiatives. The leader will be responsible for building a highly motivated and talented team, coaching and mentoring them to deliver high quality products and services.

• Delivering key programs for consumer and business initiatives.
• Driving the agile for the ACTs supporting G&A Ops and the PCTs.
• Driving upskilling / cross skilling to make sure the team is ready to pick the NSA work as business initiatives are supported in the tech stack.
• Drive and build SMEs in the team.
• Strong partnership with the larger XCIO Organization.
• Driving technical solutions, Designs, Code Delivery, and Certification of the applications & building agile teams, actively practice Dev / SecOps, and fully automate CICD pipeline.
• Ensuring that the systems are robust, scalable, reusable,
• Providing leadership and accountability for the above and ensure that complex designs come to closure, minimizing impacts to internal VZW systems and increasing subscriber growth, deliver a great customer experience, and profitability.
• Partnering with peers on architecture, designs and coding standards, with focused attention on security and infusing and adopting security by design approach.
• Building a highly motivated and talented team, coaching and mentoring them to deliver high quality products and services; partnering with business units to establish goals, influence and effectively communicate the vision set by Senior Leadership.
• Building good working relationship with the third-party retail partners defining resource capacity plans for all of the above applications, responsible for management, staffing and operations; make decisions regarding hiring, promotion and disciplinary actions. Coach, train and motivate team to achieve subject matter expertise. Hire and train high-performing digital innovation experts.
• Reviewing the critical projects and plans on a frequent basis with senior management team & working closely with the infrastructure teams for deployment and monitoring of these apps and recommending, developing, and implementing process improvements. Resolve customer complaints in a timely manner. Derive actionable insights from the voice of the customer.
• Developing policies and procedures for assigned sub function(s); tasks are multiple and diverse; work requires interpretation to ensure appropriate application. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques & evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
  
  

Where you be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What We’re Looking For...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or six or more years of work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in delivering Microservices architecture, large-scale migration from legacy to directional platforms, Cloud deployment, DevOps delivery model, and CICD automation.
• Experience in partnering with Business and IT teams at multiple levels to drive alignment and delivery of complex problems.
• Six or more years of technology leadership experience in technology selection, architecture, and full stack implementation.
• Five or more years of Software Engineering and Development experience, in leading IT teams through Business Analysis, Project Management.
• Five or more years of experience in supporting mission critical rotation production systems, lead real-time high stake risk mitigation plan and drive timely decisions.
• Six or more years of people management experience, including leadership of diverse global teams.
  
  

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

• Experience in the OSS / BSS stack.
• Six or more years of digital industry experience with a focus on large scale transformation programs.
• Experience in leading senior talent, mentoring and coaching.
• Ability to identify opportunities, facilitate sessions to ideate and come up with joint cross-functional solutions to improve digital experiences and streamline omni channel processes.
• Ability to meet aggressive deadlines, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, customer and team-oriented work environment.
• Strong presentation skills to communicate effectively.
  
  

If Verizon and this role sounds a 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

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

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